Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver Enlarge this image Kristen Uroda for NPR Kristen Uroda for NPR While traveling abroad with her husband in 2016, Fawn Weaver became fixated on a New York Times article telling the little-known story of Nearest Green, a formerly enslaved man who taught Jack Daniel—yes, that Jack Daniel—how to make Tennessee whiskey. After diving deeper …
