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The modest, almost astonishingly unglamorous-sounding Pin Point Heritage Museum will be housed in the A.S. Varn & Son Factory, a former seafood cannery that was the economic backbone of Pin Point -- and where Thomas's mother worked as a crab picker -- until it closed in 1985.

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Algernon Varn, whose father ran the fishing cannery there, long hoped to save the site from development, but it wasn't until he bumped into Thomas, who was in town promoting his memoir, that the project began to move forward.

Is Clarence Thomas's Humble Georgia Museum a Huge Ethics Issue? 2011

Thomas introduced Varn to Crow, a longtime friend.

Is Clarence Thomas's Humble Georgia Museum a Huge Ethics Issue? 2011

He found a half-brother he'd never met by Googling "Snooks Varn" and clicking on the first result.

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Their father was Herbert Woodrow Varn, known as "Snooks."

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Fred Varn was researching family history when he entered "Snooks Varn" on Google, and Jerry's name showed up.

All Thanks to a Weird Nickname 2006

Before now, none of the brothers tried to find each other because they didn't know for sure if they existed - or where they'd be, Fred Varn said.

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"They may be there only on a weekend or a getaway, and you don't want to be tech support," says Varn.

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An in-wall or in-ceiling speaker with a backbox (an enclosure around the back of the speaker) can offer many sonic benefits, says Varn.

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A Sonance iPort iPod dock in the kitchen allows iTunes to be played throughout the house, but Varn and Harmony didn't want to complicate the control with a special interface for that.

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