Stills in the Hills: Moonshine Memories from Around Canada’s First Polish Kashub Community
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract “Stills in the Hills” documents the long tradition of imbibing among the notoriously self-sufficient Polish-Kashub and Galician settlers of Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. It reaches back to the regions the settlers left—Prussian-occupied Pomerania and Austrian-occupied Galicia—and uses moonshine as a lens to examine the transnational origins of production and consumption. Using printed sources and local historical memory, this study peers into the transfer of the practice to Canada as well as subversive efforts of locals, in the community and the ethnoscape, to avoid the long arm of the law. Additionally, it unpacks several of the problems created, or exacerbated, by alcohol in the ethnic community.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it