Family Roots Run Deep...Just Don't Know The Connection

At a local eatery (and there are not many of them where we live...), there's a plank of wood with branding on it. Under each branded symbol is a name showing, what I believe, is an evolution of a family crest, the May family. The board is not placed in a central location, more off to the side.

After decades, The Pie Dump Restaurant recently changed owners. Previously, there were dozens of things to see on the walls, everything from sports memorabilia to stuffed animal heads. The new ownership left a few things, but definitely cleaned things up...

But, they left the board.

When I attended elementary school, a family moved in from up north, from the area where we now live. Over the years, I became friends with the family, quite good friends, actually. The family name...May.

Families up here--as with many areas--tend to stick around. A word of advice was given to us after we arrived a few years back. "Be careful when you talk about people, because you never know who they're related to." Not talking about people is good advice in general, but here there are apparently several influential families here you don't want to cross. I'll bet there are several members of my friend's family still living in the area.

That's why I took notice of the branded board. Are the previous owners part of the May family? Or, is the information just interesting...interesting enough to warrant real estate inside the restaurant? I could have asked the new owner, but he was busy.

We're all related, if we go back far enough. In the Intermountain West, many of us share common ancestors. It makes for a close (at times...) community. I'm sure there's a connection between The Pie Dump, and the May family. I just don't know what it is.