Jackie said he became unable to travel to the shop from his home in Wood Green. The shop closed earlier this year, marking what Jackie described as “the end of an era” for the community. He died on ...
Dunlap can spend eight hours to eight days, carving, sanding, smoothing and painting a lure. All the wood comes from the piney woods of East Texas. He bought a truckload from a sawmill in Ben Wheeler.
Former The Daily Independent reporter Henry Culvyhouse and I had a beat focusing the unique people or places that make Appalachia Appalachia. Occasionally we’d find both in one story, such ...