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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 ... Read more
Author: Dean Campbell - Page 10 | The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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 ... Read more
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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 ... Read more
COLUMNIST -- FEATURE SPOT
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 ... Read more
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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 ... Read more
COLUMNIST -- FEATURE SPOT
‘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 ... Read more
COLUMNIST -- FEATURE SPOT
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, ... Read more
COLUMNIST -- FEATURE SPOT
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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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 ... Read more
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