Libertarian vs Authoritarian: Stories about Mr. Massie have the feel of tall tales but frequently turn out to be true. The solar-powered mobile chicken coop, a.k.a. the Clucks Capacitor, is designed to move an inch an hour so the chickens always have fresh grass. Then there was the neighbor who asked him for help hiding distilling equipment. (Mr. Massie says he told him he could not get caught up in anything illegal, but that if the man kept driving, there was an old tobacco barn that “rarely gets visited.” He heard the truck go back and forth two more times. “I never saw the equipment,” he told me. “And nobody went to jail.”)