Ithink of it as the Doppler effect of summer. You feel the approach of the season for a long time and it seems like it will never arrive. Then suddenly it’s here and you’re trying to do everything summer all at once because you know that in our neck of the woods, it won’t last long. And one morning in mid-August, you wake up and the air is cool, even though the sun has risen. During the day your mind wanders to thoughts of firewood and school clothes shopping and in the evening you pull on a sweatshirt while you’re turning dinner over on the grill.

As South Hill continues to increase in population and the landscape is changed by development, past identifiers and terminology begin to fade from conversations, record, and memories. So it is with two locations once commonly known as Cedar Swamp and Sand Hill. Never heard of these places? Not surprising, unless you grew up on South Hill or have lived there most of your life.