The local middle school is Hunt Middle School, or, more fully, Lyman C. Hunt Middle School. I just discovered that Calahan Park** is more fully Lyman C. Calahan Park. They've got to be related, right? I mean, I know people with the last name Lyman, but Lyman as a first name feels like someone used a family surname, and for two prominent Lymans to be in a small town like Burlington, they probably had the same grandmother or great-grandmother, right?
Well, maybe not. Turns out that Lyman was a reasonably popular name until it died out in the 50's. That timing is also consistent with the age of Jon Arbuckle's roommate. Poor Lyman. I didn't even know he was dead.
** yes, that looks like a typo to me, and to Google, too, which wants to know "did you mean callahan"?
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