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Twice Told Tales of the Dark Corner - Dean Campbell

Our land of Twice-told Tales is threatened

The Dark Corner area of upper Greenville and Spartanburg Counties is particularly under attack by proposed routes of Duke Energy’s massive “Modernization Project” transmission lines. ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Wednesday, September 2, 2015 10:00 pm

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Bony Hampton Peace was communications giant

One man, whose name is synonymous with the growth of the communications industry in America, is Bony Hampton Peace. He was born in the Dark ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, August 25, 2015 10:00 pm

COLUMNIST -- FEATURE SPOT

Rev. Isaac Lemmons delivered sermons differently

The Reverend Isaac Lemmons was born in the late 1700s. He began his ministry in 1816 and preached the Gospel for 50 years. Many of ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, August 11, 2015 11:42 pm

Twice Told Tales of the Dark Corner - Dean Campbell

Who were ‘skulkers’ and who were ‘deserters’?

The Dark Corner area was a Unionist stronghold, from 1832, when Nullifiers first coined the name for the region, until the firing on Fort Sumter ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, July 21, 2015 10:00 pm

Twice Told Tales of the Dark Corner - Dean Campbell

Convict guard Dock M. Garrett killed during road work gang escape in the 1920s

Dock M. Garrett, at age 54, was killed by a heavy hit over the head with a shovel in the hands of a prisoner during ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, June 23, 2015 10:00 pm

COLUMNIST -- FEATURE SPOT

Jewell Weed…old time cure for poison ivy

Lots of calamine lotion, cold compresses, antihistamines and oral prednisone or other type of corticosteroid are the modern day treatments for allergic reactions to poison ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, May 26, 2015 10:09 pm

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Deputy Marshal Ledford killed at birth of Landrum

In the mid-1870’s, U.S. Deputy Marshal J.S. Ledford was a young, up and coming law officer for Greenville and Spartanburg Counties in South Carolina and ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, May 12, 2015 10:00 pm

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Merrittsville…now only a nostalgic memory

The first recorded mention of the North Saluda River valley area of the Dark Corner was in a 1785 survey for Benjamin Clark. It listed a ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, April 7, 2015 10:00 pm

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Mid-March begins the wildflower explosion

Throughout the Dark Corner, and surrounding hills of North and South Carolina, March begins an explosive harbinger of spring—wildflowers in all shapes and sizes. They ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, March 24, 2015 10:00 pm

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‘Quaint’ mountain corn lore still persists

Many new residents to the Dark Corner area—from Northeastern and a few Midwestern regions particularly—continue to find some of our persisting mountain lore “quaint.” One ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, March 17, 2015 10:00 pm

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