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<blockquote data-quote="Skeptic" data-source="post: 596456" data-attributes="member: 2175"><p>Ah, the Sumners of Sumner. John Sumner of long ago established Sumner, population now 300 or so, in the 19th Century, but moved out because it got too crowded. Joe Sumner before his death came to own all my great-great-grandfather's 1,200 acres NE of Sumner, along with his initial acreage -- alas, Luke Sapp Thompson had a large and indolent family save one, and the heirs all moved to Sylvester or Albany, spent their diluted inheritances, and were never heard from again. But a very prominent family. I knew many of them and played sandlot baseball with a couple. I went to Sylvester HS and was for two glorious summers lifeguard at the muny swimming pool, though those daring one-piece swim suits of the '50s and '60s seen from the lifeguard stand might as well have been burial shrouds. When integration came in the '60s -- service in the Air Force, OUR Air Force, had thankfully exposed me to a wider universe than down home -- they filled in the pool and there is now a tennis court over the site in the city park on U.S. 82. When I heard I thought it criminal, but then remembered some of those big ol' country boys who made regular threats of a Saturday afternoon to beat me to a pulp before a cop got to the pool, and concluded it was a reasonable move. (That is, or was when last I saw, a delightful monument to Ray Charles there on the Flint in Albany, by the way. ) See? Ask a question, get history.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skeptic, post: 596456, member: 2175"] Ah, the Sumners of Sumner. John Sumner of long ago established Sumner, population now 300 or so, in the 19th Century, but moved out because it got too crowded. Joe Sumner before his death came to own all my great-great-grandfather's 1,200 acres NE of Sumner, along with his initial acreage -- alas, Luke Sapp Thompson had a large and indolent family save one, and the heirs all moved to Sylvester or Albany, spent their diluted inheritances, and were never heard from again. But a very prominent family. I knew many of them and played sandlot baseball with a couple. I went to Sylvester HS and was for two glorious summers lifeguard at the muny swimming pool, though those daring one-piece swim suits of the '50s and '60s seen from the lifeguard stand might as well have been burial shrouds. When integration came in the '60s -- service in the Air Force, OUR Air Force, had thankfully exposed me to a wider universe than down home -- they filled in the pool and there is now a tennis court over the site in the city park on U.S. 82. When I heard I thought it criminal, but then remembered some of those big ol' country boys who made regular threats of a Saturday afternoon to beat me to a pulp before a cop got to the pool, and concluded it was a reasonable move. (That is, or was when last I saw, a delightful monument to Ray Charles there on the Flint in Albany, by the way. ) See? Ask a question, get history. [/QUOTE]
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