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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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...