About

January 1st, 2012

xboxI’m a whiskey maker, beer brewer, videographer, author, photographer, gardener, and husband. In 2012, I’m traveling the state of Tennessee selling moonshine.

Random stuff about me:

  • I wrote a book in 2010.
  • I’m the Chief Operating Officer for Short Mountain Distillery.
  • In November 2010, I ran a successful referendum process to allow the manufacturing of liquor.
  • I love making beer and cider.
  • I’ve produced a local evening newscast and occasionally appeared on air
  • My YouTube channel generated over 1,000,000 video views in 2009 and 960,000 in 2010. The channel was banned from YouTube in 2011 for “copyright” claims on fair use.
  • I worked in the second term of President Bill Clinton’s Administration as a consultant to the White House on domestic policy forums.
  • I took a year off school and hitchhiked over 1,500 miles through Canada and Alaska.
  • in 1694, Edward Grantham Sr. (an ancestor) appeared before a Grand Jury for “Entertaining Indians contrary to Law & for not comeing to church.” His son would marry Catherine Proctor, great-granddaughter of Allis Proctor - famous for not obeying orders by the Jamestown Council to abandon her frontier home and to stop fighting Indians.
  • I recycle everything I can.
  • Distant ancestor Sir Thomas Grantham squashed the Bacon’s Rebellion and later wrote that its leader, Nathaniel Bacon, died of the lousy evil.
  • I’m an INTJ on the Myers-Briggs in every sense of the type.
  • I’ve kept a detailed dream journal for more than 7 years.
  • I met my husband Vince on Valentine’s Day 2000. We were officially married in Washington D.C. in 2010 but had our wedding in 2002.
  • We have three cats and two dogs.
  • I compost organic food wastes using soldier fly larvae and earth worms.
  • I love camping

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