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Andalusia Star-News [AL]
8 November 2008
This story's too good to be true
Guest Columnist - Ed Williams
We called it the "snake in the dewberry patch" story. I was working at a weekly newspaper, The Brewton Standard, in the summer of 1981. [...]
Man drives by car in wooded area and sees children therein. Much later he returns and notes children still in car. Asks if they are alone and they tell him Mama's gone dewberry picking. He calls out for her and hearing no response, begins to investigate. Off by some dewberry vines, in a ditch, he finds the woman dead, the victim of a venomous bite. Woman has death grip on rattlesnake, which she has also killed.
End of story.
As we investigated the horrible tale, which everyone told us really happened, we found many variations with locales and persons changing. [...]
Andalusia Star-News [AL]
8 November 2008
This story's too good to be true
Guest Columnist - Ed Williams
We called it the "snake in the dewberry patch" story. I was working at a weekly newspaper, The Brewton Standard, in the summer of 1981. [...]
Man drives by car in wooded area and sees children therein. Much later he returns and notes children still in car. Asks if they are alone and they tell him Mama's gone dewberry picking. He calls out for her and hearing no response, begins to investigate. Off by some dewberry vines, in a ditch, he finds the woman dead, the victim of a venomous bite. Woman has death grip on rattlesnake, which she has also killed.
End of story.
As we investigated the horrible tale, which everyone told us really happened, we found many variations with locales and persons changing. [...]
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