The Nemo Volunteer Fire Department is raffling off a 20-year Pappy Van Winkle. The list also holds a complete Weller rainbow, all six bottles, and an Elijah Craig 21-year single barrel. The department posted the full list in the comments of its Facebook post, close to 60 bottles in all, and the lineup runs top shelf the whole way down.
Tickets are $20 apiece, or six for $100. You can buy as many as you want. Entries opened November 11 and close December 6 at midnight, and the drawing happens two days later.
Money from this one goes toward an addition on the Nemo Fire Hall.
The town the sawmill left
Nemo got started in 1877, down in a valley in the southeast corner of Lawrence County with limestone cliffs standing over it. Nobody has ever been able to explain the name. The Homestake Mining Company put a timber camp there in 1898, and the timber cut around Nemo became Case One, the first sale of federal forest timber in the country. A narrow gauge railroad reached town the same year and hauled mine timbers out until 1930…