Randle in 1955 parade

Someone in my family ran across this photo of my Papaw Susong recently.  I haven’t seen a ton of pictures of him, and didn’t know him, he died when I a baby.  Not surprisingly, my Dad looks alot like him.  My mom made the comment that this picture, taken in 1955, looks like it was taken in 1855.  I’ve got an entire book on the family history of the Susong’s.  If I ever get enough free time, I’ll have to digitize it for posterity.  I think Parker and Carson would like to know that way back when, their family used to own all of West Bristol.

I get asked alot where the name Susong came from, or they say, “I thought you would asian”. I take great pleasure in telling them, “No, it’s French, and my family used to own Bristol”. It’s silly, but hey, it’s true… Kind of.

These are the same pictures that folks have been passing around on Facebook.  They were taken by Paula Williams. Amazing shots!

We took a walk down to Dunbar Cave since the road is “closed”. Quotes are in order since there are alot of site seers who ignore the signs and drive down there anyway. The boys got to have alittle adventure walking down to the “over-flood” as Parker calls it. I found some great ariels on facebook I’ll post shortly that really show the situation well. In the meantime, here are some from my phone of our walk.