The Georgetown Bakery’s new location is only the first step

The Georgetown Bakery’s new location is only the first step
The lake is no more, but the town abides (1985).

Your periodically diligent digital editor is a Georgetonian, born and bred.

I speak neither of the garden variety Georgetowns to be found in Queensland, India, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Alberta, Malaysia or Guyana, nor of the Georgetowns situated in 33 other American states apart from Indiana, where there are five of them.

One of these is nestled in Floyd County, eight miles west of New Albany. That’s the Georgetown I know, where I fished in the reservoir (above; since drained), rode bicycles, played Little League baseball and had my hair cut at Barney’s Barber Shop.

If you’re westbound on State Road 64, Baylor Wissman Road appears on your left just before you see the big screen of the venerable Georgetown Drive In, as named for my grandfather, George Roger Baylor, and a fellow farmer who resided beneath the crest of the ridge at the time the roads were given formal identities.

His name was Joe Wisman. Since I can’t tell you which of them misspelled their name, the road or the resident, I’ll keep moving toward the unified point of today’s post.

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