“The Dark Corner” Presentation at Lanier Library

Free, Wednesday, May 21 at 1pm, at Lanier Library, Tryon. ♦

Live@Lanier goes deep into The Dark Corner of SC, once disreputable for its gunfights, outlaws and moonshiners.

Greenville County Historian and author, Jim Stehlik, will take you across years and mountains and through forests to meet the matriarchal heads of the Dark Corner families that helped evolve the Greenville area into what we know today. For example, Martha Lindsey Plumey raised moonshining sons and daughters and purchased Glassy Mountain. Rebecca Hagood Hightower championed a wife’s right to divorce a husband and own her own plantation. Sarepta Merritt Davis championed the Kingdom of Happy Land, a town of former slaves.

Jim will present a 200-year perspective with vintage pictures from his recently published: “Dark Corner Journey: Glassy Mountain to the Valley.” This is the third volume of his trilogy.