– "Marky,” they called him – was a precocious, curly-haired 6-year-old. In 1997, the year Martin was convicted of pointing a pistol at another person, Thomas assumed custody of his nephew’s son, with the nephew’s permission. He had been in and out of trouble, and in and out of jail – at least 12 arrests, according to court records. Until his 30-year prison sentence began in 1999, Mark Elliot Martin, the son of Thomas’s sister, had been part of Pin Point’s drug problem. One of the local dealers was Clarence Thomas’s nephew. But the story about his nephew’s drug business problems are still relevant in talking about Pin Point’s present. Some of the arguments made about Thomas’ lack of connection to Pin Point are now largely useless, as the Justice has made many efforts to show his face in the community in the years following the publishing of this account. Washington Post writers, and authors of "Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas,“ looked into the Pin Point’s drug-addled present (albeit from the vision of 2007, before Thomas influenced the creation of the heritage museum). beat writers who’ve shed light on Pin Point’s less finer qualities in recent years do the explaining. While he is a native son of Pin Point - his mother and father worked in the cannery - he is not quite “of” the community, having been raised in Savannah from age 6.Īnd here is where the story goes from quaint and cultural to political. In 2009, he sold the then derelict cannery buildings to a Dallas “philanthropist,” who paid millions to create the museum, which opened officially in 2011.īut when we talk about Pin Point we have to talk about its most famous resident, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The cannery employed dozens of local women in its factory, and many dozens more men as oyster and crab harvesters out in the marsh. Varn III acquired the land in the 1990s with the passing of his father, he told me, and he and his wife then moved back to Pin Point. Varn, who operated the Pin Point Cannery, which closed in 1985. I talked with a few residents, including Algernon Varn III, the grandson of A.S. (It should be noted that oystering, outside of any formal industry, was a staple to the foraged Pin Point diet for years.) While there, I toured the Pin Point Heritage Museum, which pays homage to the oyster industry that employed one or two generations of residents. One of the highlights of my most recent reporting trip for my book, “The High Low Tide,” about the past, present and future of Georgia oystermen, was visiting Pin Point, a community of about 200 Gullah/Geechee people about 11 miles south of Savannah in Chatham County. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.Pin Point: A Small Community, A Huge Story It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
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