Above:  A Painting That Once Graced the Taylor House in Summerville, Georgia

Photographer = Kenneth Randolph Taylor, December 25, 2020

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I moved last July.  Prior to that, I had moved most recently in August 2007.  Last July, I moved within Athens-Clarke County, Georgia; I relocated into the Five Points neighborhood.

I learned last Thanksgiving that one of my next-door neighbors used to own the Taylor House in Summerville.  I also learned that her former husband was a student under my grandmother, Nell Taylor, at Chattooga High School, in the 1970s.

The painting shown above hangs in a house nextdoor to where I live.  This painting hung in the Taylor House for a long time.

It’s a small world.

KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR

DECEMBER 27, 2020 COMMON ERA

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Photograph Scanned by Kenneth Randolph Taylor

In the dining room at the family house in Summerville, Georgia

All Scans by Kenneth Randolph Taylor

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My grandmother was the longtime organist at Summerville Presbyterian Church, Summerville, Georgia.

This photograph could be from the 1960s or early 1970s.

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Thanks to Uncle Randy for touching up the photograph!

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With my sister and Santa Claus

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My father was in his thirties at the time.

That decade of life seemed old to me once.  Aging has a way of changing one’s perspective regarding such matters.

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I was two years old–nearly three years old.

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This is post #1000 of ORIGINAL POEMS AND FAMILY HISTORY BLOG.

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My grandmother (1915-2001)

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Images Source = Randolph Fleming Taylor

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These are photographs of the dining room at the old family house in better days.  The table is no more, for example.  But it was a nice piece of furniture.

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The photographs were undated, but I estimate them to be of Christmas 1976–certainly no later than that.

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