Mrs. McKay recalls the Early Times community, distillery, general store, and post office: speaks of the Early Times Distillery, Jack Beam was original owner and succession of ownership, whiskey stored during Prohibition, production resumed at end of Prohibition, tells label used: recalls parents purchasing Wickland, remodeling the house, having a large vault built in the basement, operating a tea room there, menu and charges, some people stayed overnight, comments on whiskey being in the house, her father S. Lewis Guthrie stored whiskey in the vault, at one time there had been a still in the basement: remembers that her aunt, Beatrice Rodman Herts (sic ?) and others, made home brew: she says that alcoholic beverages were available at the Lincoln boyhood home site on Knobb Creek: names man that began building whiskey warehouses at the end of Prohibition: she recalls the theft of whiskey from the Wickland vault, names some people involved in the robbery, tells quantity and when stolen.
From the description of Nancy Guthrie McKay Interview, March 23, and September 26, 1988. (Kentucky Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 775604118
