Book excerpt: Work in the coal mines, social hour at the barber shop, and making moonshine in the Tennessee hills isn't fun if you can't laugh about it! Here is a hilarious anthology of jokes and anecdotes about life in the mountains and much much more! I have been a barber for 45 years, everyone knows that a lot of hair gets on the floor and everyone talks about what to do with it. I hear you can put it around the house to keep the deer out, so I tried something new I put the hair around the tomatoes. I had some beautiful tomatoes but I had to shave them before I could eat them. One of my uncles was the biggest whiskey man in Tennessee he made moonshine whiskey for 45 years. I will tell you how good his whiskey was, a man moved up on the mountain, he had a wooden leg he started drinking the new whiskey called Block and Tackle. A few months later he noticed sprouts were growing on his leg, he had to carry a axe to keep the sprouts cut off.