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Diana furnished a copy of a 1988 newspaper clipping:
The mystery of the Corkscrew Tree is solved.
Somewhat.
Four of the well-known journalism
―
Ws
‖
have been satisfied for the arboreal
oddity once located in rural Harrison County, and the who, what, when and
where do make interesting reading. But the why - the reason behind its unusual
shape - remains elusive.
The tree looked like bark had been wrapped around a huge cylinder, and the
cylinder was removed to leave the spiraled bark free-standing.
―
It
‘
s just one of those unexplained things, a freak of nature,
‖
assures the woman
who helped unravel this story.
The coastwide search for the elusive tree was launched April 16 when
Coast
Chronicles
published the photograph of an old cocktail napkin with a drawing of
the tree and the words
―
Corkscrew Tree near Saucier, Mississippi.
‖
It had been
