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Twice Told Tales of the Dark Corner - Dean Campbell

Ballad of a family’s closeness

While many ballads in the Dark Corner told of killings, accidents, natural disasters or other tragedies, there were others which revealed deeply felt closeness in ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, September 11, 2012 6:09 pm

Twice Told Tales of the Dark Corner - Dean Campbell

Subdued capture of a holy terror

Moonshiner Wade Bowers had a reputation throughout the Dark Corner and among revenue officers for being a holy terror. He was even accused of shooting ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, August 21, 2012 5:56 pm

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Whispering ghosts in the little old church

One of Scout Executive Lawrence L. Stanley’s favorite ghost stories around the campfire at Camp Old Indian happened to his own relatives in the mid ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Wednesday, August 8, 2012 1:04 pm

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J. Dean Crain, a moonshiner turned preacher

When Dr. J. Dean Crain died on Jan. 10, 1955, while serving as vice chairman of the Furman University board of trustees – a board ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, July 24, 2012 3:39 pm

Twice Told Tales of the Dark Corner - Dean Campbell

Rest of story on Butter Street

Thanks to Mrs. Libby Loftis Vatalaro of Landrum, the saga of Miss Jane Turner’s produce route being the impetus for the naming of Butter Street ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Wednesday, July 11, 2012 7:34 am

Twice Told Tales of the Dark Corner - Dean Campbell

Favorite ballad in Dark Corner

Ballads covered every subject, including incarceration. A favorite ballad in the Dark Corner was not written about life in the region. Its popularity here came ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, June 26, 2012 8:16 pm

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Warrant serving sometimes met with ambush

Even though Greenville County High Sheriff P.D. Gilreath had an excellent rapport with most of the mountain people in the Dark Corner (he did not ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:30 am

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Paneuma Barton of Glassy Mountain gave her life to China

Barton families were among the first to settle the Glassy Mountain area, once land grants to former Revolutionary War soldiers began in 1784. Paneuma Barton’s ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Wednesday, May 9, 2012 10:30 am

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Ghostly music from a stringless banjo, a favorite ghost story

Another favorite ghost story told by Scout Executive Lawrence L. Stanley during Wednesday night campfires at Camp Old Indian was The Ghost that played “Sourwood ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Wednesday, April 25, 2012 10:39 am

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Ballads told of unrequited love

It’s simply the nature of the beast, I suppose, that more ballads tell of traumatic or tragic happen stances than tried-and-true or tender ones. Ballads ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Thursday, April 5, 2012 4:21 pm

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