A few bends below Lumber City the Ocmulgee and the Oconee finally meet and go on as the Altamaha, and the town has always kept that river's unhurried time. Telfair Forest Products mows to it — early, before the July heat comes up off the sand and the pine shade shortens to nothing. Bermuda gets cut and edged clean along the drive, and the walks get blown until the concrete shows its own color again. Come autumn the pine straw and leaves lift off a yard in one long afternoon's work, and the place looks tended right up to the road. Ordinary work, done well, in a town named for what the river carried.