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Family genealogy – an inexact, exact science

Some of us, who have a calling to research many areas of history, can sometimes cringe when confronted by an ultra-dedicated, family genealogist. The cringe ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Wednesday, February 27, 2013 8:16 am

Twice Told Tales of the Dark Corner - Dean Campbell

Family genealogy – an inexact, exact science

Some of us, who have a calling to research many areas of history, can sometimes cringe when confronted by an ultra-dedicated, family genealogist. The cringe ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, February 26, 2013 10:07 pm

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‘Shake Hands with Mother Again’

If a thorough examination of lyrics in often-sung ballads and spiritual hymns/ballads in the mountains of North and South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee was made, ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:08 am

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Beware the abandoned house…it may be ‘hainted’

Southern Appalachian mountain people in the Dark Corner have delighted in telling and retelling stories to their children and grandchildren. Favorite ones were about ghosts, ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, January 8, 2013 7:03 pm

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Mad dog causes 1882 holiday season tragedy

Around midnight on a late November 1882 evening, Levi Bowers was startled awake by squealing chickens. He figured a fox or weasel had gotten into ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Saturday, December 22, 2012 12:33 pm

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‘Preacher Jim’ Howard was a beloved man of God and the Dark Corner

Perhaps no one “born and raised” in Glassy Mountain township can equal the definitive Everyman persona of James Alexander Howard. Born at the foot of ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Wednesday, November 28, 2012 3:44 pm

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Whatever happened to your dad’s alligator?

“I thoroughly enjoy your Dark Corner tales in the Bulletin every month, but…” and here, the slightly graying, fortyish fellow in the Wells Fargo parking ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:02 pm

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Annular eclipse of 1831 was highly anticipated

The Farmer’s Almanac was second only to the Bible with folks in the mountains of the Dark Corner and other Appalachian regions. In its pages ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, October 23, 2012 5:19 pm

Twice Told Tales of the Dark Corner - Dean Campbell

‘It’s awful hard to scare a fearless man’

Another ghost story often told by Scout Executive Lawrence L. Stanley during Camp Old Indian campfires happened to a member of his family in the ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 8:59 pm

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John A. Lindsey, the Corner’s bachelor doctor

John A. Lindsey was born in 1865, the year following the end of the Civil War, and was the son of George and Artamissa Stewart ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Friday, September 28, 2012 11:18 am

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