From synopsis:
“Sugarhead is a vivid portrait of life in a forgotten time in a forgotten place. Clark Church takes you back to experience life as he lived it from the early 1950’s to mid 1960’s in the tiny town of Hewed Log Gap, tucked away in the rural North Carolina mountains.
Isolated from the outside world, the hands of time moved at a snail’s pace for the cast of colorful characters who are happily immune to the rapidly changing ‘real world’. Hauling, selling, making and drinking illegal ‘Sugarhead’ liquor was a way of life. And so was fighting chickens and going to church, often all in the same day.
The law wasn’t crooked they just wanted their share. Marrying your cousin was a matter of course and so sometimes were the prevalent facial tics. Sugarhead may read as fiction but it is in Reality an invaluable historical masterpiece documenting a rural way of life that could have easily been forgotten by history. A way of life that surprisingly existed just fifty short years ago.”