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Christmas celebrations were a mixture of fact and superstition
“Do you have more of those really funny Christmas superstitions like the ones you wrote about in your Tales column back in 2015,” asked a ...
Dean Campbell, Author at The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Apologies for the tremendous case of déjà vu
If you searched for my Old Ways column last month, and found an attractive, two-page layout with a striking masthead declaring more Twice-told Tales of the Dark ...
by Dean Campbell, Thursday, May 9, 2019 10:58 pm
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Homestead pollinators produced a sweet and medicinal product
Almost as ubiquitous as the moonshine still in the early days of the Dark Corner was the beehive. Both had an enormous impact on the viability of the ...
by Dean Campbell, Thursday, April 11, 2019 10:36 pm
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Wild plants of the backyard, field and forest used in healing remedies
Whenever I think of the many wild “weeds” that have healing power in their leaves, bark or flowers, I am reminded of a phrase from one of ...
by Dean Campbell, Thursday, March 7, 2019 9:54 pm
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Old Ways of the Dark Corner: Most common herbs that were grown, kept handy by Dark Corner families
Having no patent medicines available on the frontier, grandparents and sometimes single people steeped in various uses of natural plants were adept at using a ...
by Dean Campbell, Friday, January 11, 2019 8:00 am
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Old Ways: Moonshine most important to Dark Corner for medicinal reasons
It’s difficult to believe that my last column in the Bulletin was the 150th Twice-told Tale on Dec. 28, 2016. No wonder folks keep asking, ...
by Dean Campbell, Friday, December 14, 2018 8:00 am
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Pristine mountain living: the death of Dark Corner
Researchers and authors Anne McCuen, Mann Batson, J.W. Lawrence and I have spent many years learning and relating the history of the unique mountain area ...
by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, December 27, 2016 10:00 pm
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Eyes to the hills…why we are tied to the land
Much attention is given to having or developing a “sense of place” when discussing the attributes of a particular geographical region. Defining the term takes ...
by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, December 13, 2016 10:05 pm
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Jesse Holland Center…Elder and son
Jesse Holland Center was born May 20, 1789, the third child of Abner and Ellender Pruitt Center, before they moved from Lincoln County (the part ...
by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, November 22, 2016 10:00 pm
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Lee Thompson kills, buries wife for sewing money
It was Monday morning, March 29, 1943. Ernest Good answered a knock at his door. His relatively new neighbor who lived in the old Tom ...
