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TRYON—At the next Live@Lanier event, set for Wednesday, May 21, at 1 p.m., a presentation will explore The Dark Corner of South Carolina, once disreputable for its gunfights, outlaws, and moonshiners. 

Greenville County Historian and author Jim Stehlik will take the audience across years and through mountains and forests to meet the matriarchal heads of the Dark Corner families that helped evolve the Greenville area into what we know today. For example, Martha  Lindsey Plumey raised moonshining sons and daughters and purchased Glassy Mountain. Rebecca Hagood Hightower championed a wife’s right to divorce a husband and own her own plantation. Sarepta Merritt Davis championed the Kingdom of Happy Land, a town of former slaves. 

Jim will present a 200-year perspective with vintage pictures from his recently published: “Dark Corner Journey: Glassy Mountain to the Valley,” the third volume of his trilogy.

The Lanier Library is located at 72 Chestnut Street. For more information, call (828) 859-9535 or visit thelanierlibrary.org.