Chapter 33 Unusual connection

• Jed's father was finally brought in. He laughed and explained, "I heard rumor about this. It isn't a pool, it was a hidden dock. A three slip dock in fact. That thing goes back to the days of prohibition son. The river came a little higher back then. Your great-great-grandfather fancied himself a bootlegger. This was how they received and delivered the illegal product down to the river and out to the Gulf."
• Jed could imagine his great-great-grandfather, sneaking in boatloads of contraband liquor under the noses of the "evil revenuers," hiding the shipments under the cover of a dark new moon in his hidden docks. Suddenly the financial success of his family started to make a little more sense.
• "Dad don't take this the wrong way... Did any member of our family actually obey the law before us?" The big man and Dutch just laughed adding our family had always played in the gray areas. Bubba said he could build a containment wall and have a relined salt water t-shaped pool installed in time for the moonrise.