It seems through the years I’ve owned several types of hunting dogs. A few still stand out in my mind as being that good or let’s just say different. Being a deer hunter, coon hunter, rabbit hunter, bird hunter and last but not least a squirrel hunter, I’ve just about run the gamut when it comes to hunting dogs. In this story I’ll be telling you about...
Read MoreThose Melungeon Witches
My Granddaddy said when he was a boy in the late eighteen-hundreds, white folks would tell their children if’en they didn’t behave that the Melungeons would get them. This was a traditional warning which was probably carried over from Gypsies who resembled the Melungeon race in appearance. Most folks don’t know who the Melungeon people were, so let me give...
Read More“Tiny” the Repo Man
The other week I was down around Hogback Street visiting my buddy, John. Ol’ John is a storyteller in his own right, yes-sir-ree bob why he can hang in there with the best of them. Well, won’t long after a little small talk, Ol’ John commenced to telling me some stories about the different jobs he had held as a youth. Seems he used to cut grass for his...
Read MoreEver Caught a Waccamaw?
White Perch, or Waccamaw, as we Southerners call them, are a food and game fish that lives in most lakes and rivers in the eastern U.S. Their size range from the length of your finger to a foot and a-half, and can weigh up to five pounds (although I’ve never caught one that big). Their diet includes eggs from other species and small minnows. But I’ve...
Read MoreWhat Became of the Cagle Boys
Even without much education Eben Cagle was a very smart man. He made the best of the hand life had dealt him. Besides being good with a gun and making good moonshine, he could also fix about anything. He would use his pocket knife, drawing knife or hand saw to make most things around their small farm. Both Eben and his younger brother Pearl took pride in...
Read MoreCagle Boys: Legends in Their Own Time
In the early nineteen-hundreds, the first hyro-electric dam was going to be built on Pee Dee River. Blewett Falls dam, as it was called, would back-up the river for miles and form a rather large lake. Land had to bought up before the area was flooded by the lake. It seems a young lawyer was one of the ones hired by the company (what would become Carolina...
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