Travel & Experiences
They made her a grave, too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true; She’s gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp She paddles her white canoe. . . .
Dec. 13, 1987
Nation Now
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Aug. 20, 2011
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Aug. 30, 2011
World & Nation
Terrain hinders fire crews in Virginia’s Great Dismal Swamp
Aug. 19, 2011
THE GREAT DISMAL: A Swamp Memoir by Bland Simpson (Henry Holt: $10.95; 185 pp., illustrated).
May 9, 1993
The Great Dismal Swamp is at its best in early morning before the wind rises and the mosquitoes stir.
May 1, 1988
Books
Laguna Beach author Theodore Taylor first mentioned the Great Dismal Swamp in his 1975 young adult novel “Teetoncey and Ben O’Neal.”
Nov. 29, 1991
great dismal swamp, n.c. -- After trudging for two hours through thick vegetation to a blurry mark found on Google Earth, George Ray started making up a song: “If you’re lost, I’ll find you tomorrow,” he sang in a thick Southern drawl.
Sept. 30, 2007
A Norfolk & Western excursion train carrying about 1,000 company employees and their families on an outing derailed Sunday and at least 185 people were injured, seven of them seriously, authorities said.
May 19, 1986