Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between
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Mr. Lanham Revisited: August 18, 1926

Mr. Lanham Revisited: August 18, 1926

The town of Summerville, then and now

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Mr. Lanham Revisited: August 18, 1926
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With Lanham & Sons closing at noon this Wednesday, Mr. Lanham gathered his wife and daughter and two friends. The five went for a ride to “Summerville and the Gamble place” and “had a fine time,” staying so late in the evening that they had to drive home with the car lights on!

Summerville later achieved fame as the home of folk artist Howard Finster, a …

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