Hi

I don't know the connection, but in NEwport Rhode Island one of the oldest neighborhoods is called "the Point' and people from that neighborhood have been called "hummers" for at least 100 - 150 years, as in "He's a real, old point hummer!" meaning, an old timer, a native...

John "fud" Benson, a nationally known artist, and incidentally a fine folk musician, lived on the shore there for many years and had a lobsterman's skiff named "Point Hummer" That neighborhood was settled around 1650 and has a lot of historical assocaitions dating back to when they hung 17 pirates in a row on the beach by the end of what is now Washington Street...so you can make any folk association you want with the sea or old-timers

Matt McConeghy