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Dec. 13, 2012:
Eustace Conway of Turtle Island was arrested yesterday afternoon after being served a warrant
for second-degree trespassing on a neighbors land in the Triplett community of Watauga County.

Margaret A. Palms, who resides at 2473 Little Laurel Road, reported the offense to Watauga County
Sheriff’s Office. The offense is dated Sunday, Dec. 9, and the warrant was issued on Monday, Dec. 10,
according to records filed at the Watauga County Courthouse.

At 4:11 p.m. on Wednesday, Watauga County Sherriff’s Deputy S. Morrison served the warrant to
Conway, who was then brought to the Watauga County Magistrates.

According to those records, Conway “unlawfully and willfully” entered the premises of Palms after
being notified not to enter or remain on her property.
(A Jed Clampett Home Invasion)

“He went and tied our gate shut, so we couldn’t get out and he put posters all over our gates,
mailboxes, fences. Then he put big wooden barriers, so we couldn’t get out,” Palms said on Thursday
morning. “He just kind of went nuts.”

Palms said that there is only one way to drive off of her property, which borders Conway’s Turtle
Island Preserve, a 1,000-acre primitive living site and educational camp that has existed for 26
years and recently closed to the public.

Palms, an attorney and real estate agent in Boone, said that Conway disputes the property line.
She has lived at 2473 Little Laurel Road for 18 years and said she used to be good friends with
Conway until about five or six years ago.

“He comes trespassing from time to time, and we’ve asked him not to. He’s harassing us,” Palms
said. “I just want him to stay away from our property.”

Reached on Thursday morning, Conway said he wished he could respond, but his lawyer advised
him to not make any comments to the press regarding the trespassing charge.

Quoted from Shadow

Palms, an attorney and real estate agent in Boone. Could there be an ulterior motive behind getting the mountain man off that land??

Quoted from Box A Rox

Jed Clampett??? NOPE.  Just another 'anti govt' trouble maker!

Quoted from Box A Rox

What would you call it if your neighbor TRESSPASSED on your property, then ENTERED YOUR HOME
WITH OUT PERMISSION?
A home invasion?

Quoted from GrahamBonnet

The land should belong to "all" of us according to the socialists. Why won't you redistribute for this poor
man with more need?

Quoted from Walt

This guy is on a reality show ,on discovery.

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Eustace Conway is largely a fraud. While he may have practiced a low-impact,
back-to-nature way of life as a teen (although when he drinks, Eustace admits many
things that contradict this), Turtle Island today reflects very little of that. It is a non-
productive "farm" covered by half-built cabins and strewn with rusty old cars and trailers
(all exposed to the weather and leaking oil, coolant, etc. onto the soil). On any given
day, you are more likely to hear the din of heavy deisel trucks and tractors, gas
generators, electric power tools, chainsaws, and motorcycles than you are the natural
sounds of the forest.

-Livestock routinely die from neglect at TI. I watched one goat and her kid die
from a bacterial infection, despite the intern's repeated warnings to Eustace of its
condition. A former volunteer told me that he saw 3 other goats die in a similar manner
during the previous months.

--Eustace owns and regularly operates bulldozers, backhoes, and industrial-size dump
trucks to clear forest for roads, buildings, and anything else he can think of.

--Eustace's home is surrounded by rusting trucks, cars, horse trailers, etc., most of
which do not run or function at all. I counted 60 cars, not to mention the numerous
trailers strewn throughout the surrounding forest. Piles of car batteries sit exposed
and leaking in the forest amongst the cars behind the house.

Quoted from Henry

Your not allowed to live outside the box in America anymore, if you don't fall in line they will come for you and soil your name and like seen before possibly kill you for being different.

Quoted from Box A Rox

Henry got scammed and now he's trying to put a 'noble' face on it.  

This mountain man is just one more huxter with a gullible following.  He's no more a 'mountain man' than
I am... but he sure got a lot of mileage (and dollars) out of the hoax!