JUGORNOT JOURNAL: A Place and Time Remembered

Jugornot was named for a phrase used by a moonshine still patron who was having difficulty getting his brew. He replied “jug or not”, I’ll get my whiskey and thus the name of the community was born. The one-room school bearing the name “Jugornot” was built in 1926 to replace a pre-1900 log structure that was destroyed by fire. This book documents the day-to-day life and culture of this small Kentucky community. Jugornot School closed at the end of the 1966 school year, having served the community for 40 years. This documentary is about the everyday life of a community with its one-room school as its focus.