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Clermont Ilarbor, MS « Russell Guerin
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In my boyhood years, there was only one other pier in Clermont, a private one in front of the Chalona residence. It too met its end (like Chardin’s diminishments) in a little squall and was not rebuilt.
The wonderful thing about the Clermont pier was that no one could go there and be a stranger very long. It is where the regulars would go, where we would likely find our friends from previous summers, where we would introduce new friends to others. It was also where mothers would come to sit while children swam; they too would be sure to find others to converse with while they enjoyed the shade and the breezes.
The '47 hurricane was strong enough to demolish the pier, but because the townspeople recognized its importance it was rebuilt. Partly, the reconstruction was done with salvaged pieces of the first pier; there was enough to build a 600-foot replacement.
Is this one of the reasons why Clermont was such a beloved place in those years? I think so. Chardin may have only been musing - fantasizing - about the earth's progressions being caused by its being round, but when I think back on the Clermont pier, I recognize that he was delivering a profound and practical truth.
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