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The Music Man of the Mountains

Lawyering was Bascom Lamar Lunsford’s vocation, but his avocation was music. Mountain music, that is. If the truth ...

Across the Mountains - Drew Hines

Bloody Bill and his band of renegades

Recently, our country observed the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution. Of course, the focus ...

Across the Mountains - Drew Hines

How Lava soap saved the day

Most children of the fifties and sixties have a Lava soap story. You remember Lava soap. It’s the ...

Across the Mountains - Drew Hines

The remarkable honeybee

Nobody knows bees like Buddy Williams. The Landrum resident is a third-generation beekeeper who manages about sixty hives ...

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The prophet of Holly Springs

My good friend, Dr. Tim Clark who was, for nearly thirty years, pastor of Holly Springs Baptist Church ...

Across the Mountains - Drew Hines

Before us

I was hoeing my garden early one spring when a snow-white glint in the soil caught my eye. ...

Across the Mountains - Drew Hines

The ever-handy almanac

Since America’s infancy, farmers and gardeners have depended on farmer’s almanacs to give them information they believed was ...

Across the Mountains - Drew Hines

Aunt Tiny and the revenuer

I can’t vouch for the veracity of this tale, but I’ll tell it exactly as I heard it ...

Across the Mountains - Drew Hines

How the Liberty Church got its name

Liberty Methodist Church stands alongside a once much-traveled road. Unfortunately, the story has been clouded and virtually lost ...

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Gone but not forgotten

Who was forever banished from Greenville County, barely escaping with his life, yet still has a prominent local ...

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