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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, ...
Dean Campbell, Author at The Tryon Daily Bulletin - Page 3 of 14
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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 ...
by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, November 8, 2016 10:00 pm
COLUMNIST -- FEATURE SPOT
It’s time to sing ‘Just a Little While to Stay Here’
This series of Twice-told Tales of the Dark Corner, which has included numerous twice-sung ballads, has been ongoing since February 24, 2010, and will conclude ...
by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, October 25, 2016 10:00 pm
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Documenting the oral tradition of Dark Corner
During the summer of 1983, Dr. Bernard Zaidman, then professor of English at Limestone College, received a humanities grant to conduct a new project entitled ...
by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, October 11, 2016 10:00 pm
COLUMNIST -- FEATURE SPOT
The tragedy-ridden life of ‘Big Alex’ Campbell
The recent tale of the tragic killing of 39-year-old grandfather, George Washington Campbell, elicited quite a number of phone calls and face-to-face conversations. Many of ...
by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, September 27, 2016 10:00 pm
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Northern sky over Dark Corner was spectacular in 1839
The 60th tale in this Twice-told series was about the much-anticipated full eclipse of the sun that occurred on February 12, 1831. There was another ...
by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, September 13, 2016 10:00 pm
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Squire or Prince? Corner or Corners? Which is which?
At a fundraising event for the Foothills Humane Society last year, the emcee introduced me as a Tryon Daily Bulletin columnist with the title, The ...
by Dean Campbell, Friday, August 12, 2016 10:00 pm
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