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Beyond the Monuments - Finding the Forgotten Grave of Dicey Langston
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- By James Spurck - Publisher
As Dicey Langston is honored across the Upstate, her Greenville County burial ground still faces an uncertain future.
Thousands of people travel through northern Greenville County every week without realizing how close they are to one of the county's most remarkable pieces of history. Along Tigerville Road stands a monument erected more than 90 years ago to Laodicea “Dicey” Langston Springfield. In Travelers Rest, her likeness now stands in bronze. Across the Upstate, her name remains part of the landscape, and her Revolutionary War story continues to be told more than two centuries after a young backcountry girl risked her life for the cause of Patriot freedom.
But if you want to find Dicey herself, you have to leave the monuments behind.
Not far away, beyond the familiar roads and largely out of public view, is an old family cemetery. There are no crowds there, no bronze statue and no public parking lot inviting visitors to stop. Among fallen leaves, branches and weathered stones is the grave of Dicey Langston Springfield, with her husband, Thomas Springfield, resting beside her. Other members of the Springfield family are buried nearby, along with smaller fieldstones that appear to mark additional graves. Local accounts have long associated some of those unmarked burials with enslaved people and Confederate soldiers, although those identities have not yet been documented.
Daring “Dicey” Langston: Revolutionary War Heroine
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- By Bob Dill, Founder of The Times Examiner
Defiant, Courageous, Fearless, Teenage Freedom Fighter and Spy
Editor’s Note: This article was written 20 years ago by Bob Dill, founder and former publisher of The Times Examiner, and originally published July 5, 2006. We are republishing it as it appeared at the time because Dill’s reporting documented not only the remarkable story of Laodicea “Dicey” Langston Springfield, but also the Springfield family cemetery where she rests. Two decades later, that cemetery and its future have once again become a matter of public interest. The article reflects the historical information and terminology available to the author at the time of its original publication.
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Heading east from Travelers Rest on Tigerville Road, one may see the monument honoring a heroic teenager who, during the American Revolution, earned the title of Patriot, Heroine, and “Rebel for the cause of Freedom.” She was Miss Laodicea Langston, better known as “Daring Dicey.”
The monument is located across the road from Enoree Baptist Church and was erected by the Nathaniel Greene Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in 1933. A new plaque was added in 1966, correcting her birth date.
'Infidel Awareness Month' Launches on the 25th Anniversary of 9/11
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- By Infidel Awareness
Infidel Awareness Month - September 11 through October 7, 2026
MEDIA ADVISORY — A coalition of Jews, former Muslims and Christians is launching “Infidel Awareness Month,” a national observance running from September 11 to October 7, the anniversaries of the 9/11 attacks and the October 7 massacre that claimed thousands of innocent lives.
Each day, Infidel Awareness Month will remember the victims, examine the history and ideology behind the attacks, and ask a simple question: Why are we still afraid to name the threat?
“Infidel Awareness Month is about remembering, understanding and speaking plainly,” said founder and historian Richard Landes. “We cannot defend a free society if we are afraid to name the ideology that has repeatedly declared us its enemy. No to supremacist Islam. Yes to Muslims who live as our equal neighbors.”
From 9/11 Unity to Open Support for Jihad —Where Did It Begin?
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- By USPIE
America has gone from patriotism and exceptionalism to a full-on embrace of Islam and hate for our nation. This is because of what’s being taught in K-12 schools, filtering down from corrupt colleges
Just after that awful day — September 11, 2001 — when nearly 3,000 people died at New York’s Twin Towers, the Pentagon and in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the nation came together.
Patriotism broke out from coast to coast. Americans were astonished and grateful for the brave first responders who gave their lives to save others after the hijacked planes hit the buildings.
Yet, today, with New York City electing an Islamist/communist mayor, and schoolchildren being told that America is the world’s biggest problem — not a beacon of hope — it’s clear what decades of miseducation in government schools has produced.
Hunting Island's Lighthouse Was Built to Outsmart the Atlantic's Shifting Shoreline
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- By James Spurck, Publisher
Long before "mobile" became a word associated with modern technology, South Carolina had a 19th-century lighthouse engineered to be mobile without losing its purpose.
A lighthouse is supposed to be a fixed thing. The sea moves. The tides move. Ships move. Sand shifts beneath the waves, storms reshape the coast, and generations of people come and go. But the lighthouse remains, planted on the edge of the continent as a declaration that at least one thing knows exactly where it belongs and exactly what it is there to do.
That is the familiar picture, but Hunting Island Lighthouse complicates it.
Rising above the maritime forest near Beaufort, with the Atlantic stretching out before it, the black-and-white tower is one of South Carolina's most recognizable landmarks at the state's most visited state park. Visitors approaching it today see something that looks permanent. Its iron walls appear massive. Its foundation appears settled. Its purpose seems almost self-explanatory. One of South Carolina’s tallest lighthouses was built where it was needed, and there it stayed.
Except this lighthouse didn't.
When the Liberty Bell Found Its True Voice
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- By James Spurck, Publisher
While America celebrates its 250th Anniversary, let us remember the most famous bell, which became immortal only after it could no longer ring. The forgotten story behind its inscription, its crack, and the liberty it continues to proclaim reveals far more than most Americans have ever been told.
Like millions of other Americans, I had always taken the Liberty Bell for granted. It was simply one of those familiar symbols that had always been there, like the American flag, the bald eagle, the Statue of Liberty or Mount Rushmore. I knew it represented liberty, but I had never stopped to ask what that actually meant.
That changed just a few days ago.
As my wife, who proudly became an American citizen less than a decade ago, and I reflected on America's 250th birthday, she asked me, a lifelong American, a simple question that caught me completely off guard. It was a question I should have asked long ago.
"What does the Liberty Bell actually stand for?"
Confident in my assumptions, I thought I knew the answer. I didn’t.
Heroic Pictures and Fathom Entertainment Announce Nationwide Release of 'The American Miracle -- Our Nation is No Accident'
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- By A. Larry Ross Communications
Inspiring New Film to Premiere in Theatres June 9-11, 2025, Ahead of America’s 250th Anniversary
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., and DENVER, Colo. -- Heroic Pictures, in partnership with Fathom Entertainment, the leading specialty distributor of content to theatrical partners worldwide, is proud to announce the nationwide release of The American Miracle – Our Nation is No Accident on June 9, 10, and 11, 2025. In anticipation of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, this groundbreaking docudrama, inspired by the New York Times bestselling book by Michael Medved, explores the Divine Hand in America’s founding and its remarkable journey to becoming a beacon of freedom.
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