For 51 years, Robert Shumate said he has been “keeping South ­County cool.” Owner of Pier Ice Plant in Narragansett and a Narragansett Indian Tribe member, Shumate says he was lucky to grow up in a family that owned its own business. “The day my dad showed up here … I don’t think he had

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