In his younger days Art bought a small cabin in the Appalachians to spend some "chill out" time in the summers when not on tour. It was near a small village that had a coupla hundred inhabitants where village life revolved around the Store. The cabin was a few hundred yards from the road along a very rough track. The Postal Service
insisted that the mail box had a house name on it as there were no house numbers on that road, well none that would have made sense anyway. Being his whimsical self, Art called his Cabin what it was, a Summer Place . One year he was in the store and a coupla locals he hadn't seen before came in and were looking at him a bit funny, as rural folks usually look at strangers, after he left they asked the storekeeper "who was that guy?" and the storekeepers reply was












" That was Art Thieme from a Summer Place"