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Seasons of change VACATIONERS, DEVELOPERS AND BUSINESSES EMBRACE THE POTENTIAL OF SML

State Park Established

Antique Boats

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Contents June 2016

Love the Lake

ON THE WATER A 1964 18-foot wooden runabout was launched into SML in 1965, the year the lake was nearing completion, and has resided here ever since.

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HOME & GARDEN

LAKE & GARDEN Columnist Catriona Tudor Erler looks back at the eight winning gardens from Laker Media’s annual landscape competition.

ART & CULTURE This month, Trinity Ecumenical Parish — which consists of three congregations — marks its silver anniversary serving the Smith Mountain Lake community.

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DOCK & DINE Our map and guide provide a detailed list of all the places where you can park your boat and enjoy a tasty and scenic meal.

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DOCK TALE HOUR Think of them less as life-hacks and more like lake-hacks. Our humor columnist gives you a few ways to make things easier during a trip to SML.

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Contents June 2016

DEVELOPMENT The Mitchell family lost most of its Huddleston farm to the creation of the lake in the 1960s. However, what remained became one of SML’s first marinas and a magnet for seasonal visitors.

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TOURISM Land donated by Appalachian Power Co. helped in the creation of the region’s iconic Smith Mountain Lake State Park.

FISHING SML and its 500 miles of shoreline forever changed the way anglers fish, the way they boat and the way they live.

REFLECTIONS People who spearheaded companies and made their roots in the newly created region discuss the pre-boom era.

PHOTOGRAPHY A 13-page photo spread details the early days of the lake as it drew recreational crowds and fledgling businesses.

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Editor’s Note

June 2016

Published by Laker Media 272 Westlake Road, Suite 1, Hardy, VA 24101 Phone: 540.721.4675 • Fax: 540.721.4627

If the building of the dam marked the birth of Smith Mountain Lake, then the quarter century afterward defined what could be considered the region’s adolescence — its effort to grow and to mature into the vibrant place we see around us today.

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The buzz about SML began early and was to continue for decades to come.

CREATIVE AND PUBLICATION DESIgNER

An article published in The Roanoke Times on April 23, 1967, proudly proclaimed, “Smith Mountain Lake, the newest of the western Virginia lakes, has already become a nationally known ‘hot spot’ for fishermen and a paradise for campers, boaters and water-skiing enthusiasts.”

Janette Saviano janette.saviano@smithmountainlaker.com

Because it is significantly larger than Claytor and Philpott lakes, it’s not hard to see why Smith Mountain Lake became a draw to so many visitors. Cabins and cottages were scattered around the lake, but the number of those homes — a total of 674 in 1967, a year after the lake filled — was nothing like we see today.

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SALES ExECUTIVE

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The years from 1966 to 1990, which are the focus of this second installment of Smith Mountain Laker magazine’s summer history series, ushered in many “firsts” for SML and its communities. Channel markers were installed to help guide boaters, the first power-boat race was held in July 1967, the Smith Mountain Dam Visitor’s Center opened, Smith Mountain Lake State Park debuted to the public in 1983 and area fixtures such as Bridgewater Plaza, The Waterfront and Bernard’s Landing began welcoming people. The seeds of the future were sown in those years, and as much as it was a paradise for many so long ago, a paradise it has remained.

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The sparsely populated early years of Smith Mountain Lake attracted campers, boaters and fishermen to the region.

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buoyant Dr. Warren S. Koontzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1964 MoCraft vessel named Germanna has been a fixture of the lake for decades. It will be on display this fall at the Antique & Classic Boat Show and Festival, held Sept. 10.

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The Lynchburg-built Germanna, an 18-foot wooden runabout, was launched into Smith Mountain Lake in 1965, one year before full pond was reached.

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are it is to find anyone — or anything — that has been dampened only by Smith Mountain Lake waters. But that is certifiably true of Germanna, the 1964 18-foot wooden runabout that was launched into SML in 1965, the year the lake was nearing completion, and has resided here ever since. Still in the possession of the Koontz family, the boat was built by Moser Marine under the brand MoCraft Boats, which produced just eight to 10 boats a year using molded mahogany hulls purchased from Yellow Jacket Boats in Denison, Texas. MoCraft, which sold its completed boats from its factory-front showroom on Fifth Street in Lynchburg (now a dance studio) was a charter member of the Southwest Virginia Boat Dealers Association — which still produces the Roanoke Boat Show held in February of each year. 20 June 2016 | SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKER

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At 83 years old, Dr. Warren W. Koontz fondly recalls the boat’s — and Smith Mountain Lake’s — early days. “My family was from New York, but we bought property in Huddleston in 1964. My dad went to see Charlie Moser, MoCraft’s founder, and ended up buying a boat. Charlie, along with son David, brought it out to the lake early the next year, but the water wasn’t high enough for it to be launched, so we stored it in Jimmy Saunders’ barn for most of that season.” Later that year, the water level rose enough for Moser to launch the boat and run it around to the Koontz’s Alpha Drive waterfront, where a boathouse-style shelter had been built. “Win [Koontz’s wife, Edwina] and I were living in Richmond at the time, and we soon relocated to Boston. It wasn’t until 1970 that we added a dwelling to the property and started spending much time here.”

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Dr. Warren Koontz’s 1964 MoCraft was built in Lynchburg and restored in 2000.

A lift was added to the boathouse in 1972, so the boat — then powered by its original 100 HP Mercury outboard — could be kept high and dry. It has resided in that boathouse ever since, never so much as trailered to another body of water for a cruise or fishing outing. But it was used regularly on SML — for skiing and exploring the lake with family and friends. “This was our weekend fun boat until 2005,” Koontz reminisced. “My kids learned to ski behind it. But before retiring a dozen years ago, Charlie Moser cautioned us: ‘She’s getting a bit tender. … I’m not sure I’d use her for skiing anymore.’ “Since then, we have mostly run her only to the SML Antique and Classic Boat show locations and back,” Koontz said. “My family enjoys hanging out at the shows. The kids (now adults) bring treasured old skis and coolers and other period accessories to dress up our display and eagerly tell people about their boating experiences on SML.” In 1982, Germanna was re-powered with a 115 HP Evinrude. “But with the boat now restored and being shown, I do wish I had kept the original Merc,” Koontz said.

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mazing as it may sound, Germanna wasn’t the only 18-foot MoCraft Day Runner on display at Smith Mountain Lake’s annual Antique & Classic Boat Show and Festival the last few years. David Moser — retired after 49 years in the marine business and now working part time at the Lynchburg True Value Hardware — enjoys showing his own example in the neighboring slip. His Miss Allison was built in 1966 for another SML family. “Delivered price: $1,500, including its 100 HP Mercury outboard,” he said with a nostalgic grin. “I bought that boat back from the original owners in ’74,” Moser said, “but except for a few outings in the late ’70s, it languished in storage as boat-building switched over to fiberglass. No one cared much about an old mahogany runabout in those days.” While the Moser family’s boatbuilding heyday was shortlived — approximately 120 boats between 1956 and 1968 — its boat dealer business continued until 2005. Bryant, Carolina Skiff and a variety of aluminum fishing boats were sold from the Lynchburg location, many to customers from SML.

clockwise. David Moser stands in his 1966 MoCraft Miss Allison. MoCraft was founded by Moser’s family, and while the boatbuilding heyday was short-lived — about 120 boats were built between 1956 and 1968 — its boat dealer business continued until 2005. Moser takes the Miss Allison for a quick trip on Smith Mountain Lake during the 2015 Antique & Classic Boat Show and Festival. The boat will be displayed at the show again this year. The boat is named after Moser’s daughter. 24 June 2016 | SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKER

“In the early years, boats and furniture were offered from the same store,” Moser recalled. “My granddad started his handmade furniture business in 1915 and ran it with my dad and my uncle Luther. Dad grew up learning woodworking and built our first family boat — ‘Kool Kat’ — in the

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left to right. This Mercury outboard currently powers the Miss Allison. The Miss Allison, shown long before the vessel had a name. The 1966 vessel Miss Allison was built by the now shuttered family business of David Moser. The business began making boats in 1956. It closed about 10 years ago.

early ’50s,” Moser said. “My older brothers and I — we all pretty much learned to ski before we learned to walk!” The boat’s restoration from 2001 to 2003 benefited from the loving hand of a “parent” who helped build her, but the next generation took note. And Moser’s daughter, Allison, insisting that it be named before its first show appearance, soon had a boat named in her honor.

“My daughter and I connect around this boat,” David Moser said. “It helps keep us close.” Allison now has a 1-year-old daughter, Claire, who she expects to become an avid laker as well. “She’ll be the fourth generation to go for a ride in this old boat,” her granddad noted. “How cool is that? Dad passed away in March of last year [2014], but we’ll be carrying on the family tradition in his memory.”

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mith Mountain Laker magazine’s landscape competition was inaugurated eight years ago to celebrate outstanding gardens at the lake. Lakescapes Nursery in Union Hall enthusiastically embraced the concept, and each year has sponsored the $1,000 first-place prize, redeemable toward merchandise at the nursery. Each winning garden is unique, reflecting the owners’ creative solutions as they solve terrain problems and enhance their outdoor living environment. Here’s a look back at the winning gardens.

2008: Don and Karin

Mullendore This garden from the Mullendore family won Laker Media’s inaugural landscape contest.

Viewed by land or by boat, Don and Karin Mullendore’s garden is a winner. Planted on a steep slope, the potentially difficult situation has been used to great advantage so that the garden is “presented” like a painting on an easel to viewers looking up from below, and from above is an abstract design of shapes, colors and textures. The flower garden overlooking the swimming pool is a beautiful medley of flowers providing summer-long interest.

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2009: Wes and Yvonne

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Wes and Yvonne Williamson got their lot for a song because the seller thought it was too step to build. What the seller saw as problems, the Williamsons transformed into assets. First the Williamsons terraced the steep slope leading from the street to the front door. Wes designed the retaining walls and did all the excavating, digging the foundations in preparation for building them. The stone they used was from the Peaks of Otter. On the lakeside, Wes built a large deck into the slope for level outdoor living space. With a fire pit, lounging area and a hot tub, there’s plenty of room and plenty to do. Yvonne took care of planting. Working on a budget, she relied on her garden club plant sales and nursery end-of-season sales to populate the terraced beds. She wanted a low-maintenance buffer garden on the waterfront slope to protect the quality of the lake water. They opted for ornamental grasses, planting them in rivers that run across the slope, creating a billowy sea that looks good from above and from the water. Without any formal landscape training, Wes and

Above. Where some people had seen a lot too steep to build on, the Williamsons added retaining walls to create sections of ornamental grasses and flowering plants that look good from all angles. Their property won the landscape contest in 2009. Bottom right. The Lietzes took advantage of the front of their home’s southern exposure to create a graceful and welcoming entrance.

Yvonne Williamson’s innate skills and sensitivity to the site resulted in a beautiful garden that is in harmony with its setting.

2010: John and Kathy

as it passes through lushly planted beds on either side, and then opens into a circular patio near the front door. A comfortable space furnished with a cafe table and two chairs, the patio is delightful any time of year.

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“Builder Boring” was the landscape genre John and Kathy Lietz encountered when they purchased their lakefront home in Moneta in 2004. A thin, weedy lawn sloped down to the front door, and an uninvitingly narrow concrete path ran in a straight line across the front of the house from the driveway before doglegging at a right angle to the front door. A smattering of shrubs dotted the space between the path and the front porch. Kathy had a vision for something better. To take advantage of the front’s southern exposure, she envisioned a seating area surrounded by blooming perennials, where the couple could sit outside on warm winter days. She hired landscape architect Dan Chitwood of Roanoke to draw up a conceptual plan. Chitwood’s design significantly enlarged the front walkway, making it more graceful and welcoming. Beginning at the driveway, it opens wide, embracing arriving guests and drawing them into the space. It narrows and curves in the middle SMITHMOUNTAINLAKE.COM

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Architectural additions have been used in the Kollmans’ winning garden of 2011. There is repetition and rhythm to their garden.

2011: Ron and Cindie

2012: Steve and Judy

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When Ron and Cindie Kollman bought their lakeside property in 2004, they had a blank canvas of unplanted land waiting to be made into a garden. They began by working with Willow Tree Nursery of Penhook to create an overall concept and blueprint for the design. But Cindie also had her own ideas and modified the plans, bringing her painterly eye to the choice and location of plants. Cindie added trees and shrubs with varying foliage color to move the eye from one bed to another. Along the driveway and in the front beds, she used the deer resistant crimson pygmy barberry and gold mop cypress to pull the eye toward the house. Variations on the same plantings in each bed provide repetition and rhythm. Ron’s architectural additions to the garden have given Cindie the opportunity to grow climbers. An arbor swing is clothed in Zephirine Drouhin, an heirloom Bourbon rose, and the rose New Dawn grows over the arch leading into the secret garden.

The Smiths’ lot is long and skinny (550 feet of shoreline), presenting challenges for landscape architect Cabell Crowther. Up to the demands, Crowther terraced the garden to create level areas. Stone retaining walls have serpentine curves to reduce the impression of their height and length, also adding a delightful sense of mystery because the curves obscure the view from one end to the other. In a garden of this size, Judy Smith realized the importance of making a large statement with swaths and ribbons of one plant. Groves of Heritage river birch flank the driveway. The ornamental grass Miscanthus sinensis follows the arch of the sandy beach. Large leaf hydrangeas soften the house foundations on the shady side, while a mass planting of the sun-loving Annabelle hydrangeas fill a sunny spot. Judy’s latest idea is a layered row of hydrangeas, combining the long-flowering, 8-foot tall Limelight behind Little Lime, a new dwarf introduction that tops at 5 feet.

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Stone retaining walls have serpentine curves to reduce the impression of their height and length, also adding a delightful sense of mystery because the curves obscure the view from one end to the other. The landscaping at Steve and Judy Smith’s home won Laker Media’s 2012 contest.

Judy chose her shrubs for their suitability to the lake environs and their diverse seasonal interest: rhododendrons in spring, St. John’s wort for early summer, different types of hydrangeas, Knock Out

roses for long summer interest and evergreens such as Kleim’s Hardy gardenia and the compact Soft Touch holly. Carefully positioned trees provided needed shade at different times of year.

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2013: Page Lewis Page Lewis’ 3-acre garden is both beautiful and remarkable for the nurturing it provides not only for her large family (7 of her children and her parents currently live with her), but also for wildlife. In the garden are four wildlife habitat ponds the family built themselves. These are linked by meandering streams that wend through the various garden areas. Paths follow the stream, occasionally crossing the waterways over small arched wooden bridges. Forks in the paths lead to hidden corners and alcoves of varying sizes, providing sheltered, private places to retreat. Page’s pesticide- and poison-free oasis is a magnet to wildlife. The ponds and flower beds are home to local fauna such as birds, butterflies, chipmunks, squirrels, deer, rabbits and non-poisonous snakes, as well as a burgeoning population of red-eared slider turtles Lewis got from the animal rescue center.

brought their large collection of koi, carrying two to three each in water-filled plastic bags, which were then set into large plastic bins. The stacked bins filled the back of their pickup truck. The Converses’ first water garden was a series of naturalistic ponds and streams that wandered through the woods on their lot. After a few years, they decided a more formal design would better suit the style of their house, and they set about the remodel, calling in Lynchburg-based landscape architect Norman Tharpe to finalize and implement the design. “We looked into several people, but chose Norman because he has the most experience at the lake with koi.” Around the series of formal ponds, the Converses have planted a garden that focuses on foliage with its various textures and myriad shades of green, blue, yellow and red.

2015: George and Rita

2014: Charlie and Theresa Trettner Visitors coming to the Trettner’s front door are

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Charlie and Theresa Converse are passionate about koi and about landscaping. When they moved to Smith Mountain Lake from Rochester, New York, they

treated to beds filled with colorful annuals and perennials. A border of low-growing pink wax begonias edges the beds, acting as an attractive color foil to the lavender and pale orange dahlias, golden

Page Lewis’ garden has four wildlife habitat ponds the family built themselves. She was 2013’s winner.

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creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia “Aurea”) and a Japanese maple. From the lake, the dock catches the eye with its hanging baskets filled with blazing red dragon wing begonias. Large tubs filled with upright red geraniums (Pelorgonium) and the cascading chartreuse leafed Marguerite sweet potato vines provide color on the decking. A lush lawn sweeps down the slope toward the water, stopping just before it reaches the riprap. Along the shore is a single row of shrubs, each carefully pruned to create a pattern and rhythm of shapes and sizes. Planting that waterfront row of shrubs was an important step in the Trettner’s landscaping journey. They learned that a buffer garden along the shoreline is important for the lake’s water quality as the plant roots soak up the lawn fertilizer before it runs into the water. It was a win-win decision, good for the garden design and good for the lake. Applications for the 2016 Gardens & Grounds Contest may be submitted anytime between between now and July 15. Email your submission to contest@smithmountainlaker. com. Include your contact information; a brief description of your garden, including what problems you may have faced in creating it; and photographs of the garden.

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Three churches of one God Trinity Ecumenical Parish is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month.

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here’s a reason the church just south of the bridge on Virginia 122 is called Trinity. Trinity Ecumenical Parish is truly three congregations — Episcopal, Lutheran and Presbyterian — working and worshipping together as one church. The church marks its silver anniversary June 26, celebrating a quarter century of serving the Smith Mountain Lake community. In those 25 years, Trinity has grown from a small and informal Bible study group to a church of more than 800 people. Moneta resident Lois Garlough was one of the original church members. She laughs when she remembers what it took to convince three different church governing bodies that Episcopalians, Lutherans and Presbyterians could worship together, while honoring their own traditions. As the population of the lake area grew in the 1980s, she recalled, the three denominations wanted to see if there was enough interest to found new congregations. Each decided against it, but the members of the Bible study group did not see why they should not worship together. They formed a committee to figure out how to do it. “It was an unheard-of concept at that point.

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We wanted to embrace the heritage from our own denominations, but we knew we could expand our ministry by cooperating. We’re not that different. We’re all Christians,” she said. Fourteen people attended the first worship service of the group, Garlough recalled. Originally known as the Ecumenical Mission, they first met in borrowed space at Epworth United Methodist Church. “It was on a Saturday afternoon in 1987. It was a hot summer and there was not much air conditioning then,” Garlough said. But it was a start. The Ecumenical Mission, with the help of the three sponsoring denominations, hammered out a new kind of church organization, and in June 1991 Trinity Ecumenical Parish was born. The parish is officially part of the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia, the Virginia Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and the Presbytery of the Peaks of the Presbyterian Church (USA). The organization agreement is a covenant document, creating a separate congregation for each denomination, and explaining how the three congregations work together. The covenant document was the real beginning of the church, Garlough said. “It meant that we could call a pastor and build a

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church. We held Organization Sunday. It was quite a big celebration,” she said. Trinity’s pastors serve the entire church and are recognized by all three denominations. Pastor Philip Bouknight is a Lutheran. Pastor Emeritus Gary Scheidt is Presbyterian. The parish is currently in the process of calling an associate pastor. Sunday services at 10:30 a.m. rotate from month to month based on the traditions of the three denominations, while the 8 a.m. service is nondenominational. “We wondered at the time if only Episcopalians would come during Episcopal month, and so on, but no. People enjoyed the variety. It’s grown, I think, because we have that variety,” Garlough said. In fact, she said, most people in the church do not even know which specific congregation their fellow parishioners belong to. Some members choose to join the parish without joining a specific denomination. The parish broke ground for its church building in 1995. Within five years, the parish needed more space and expanded the sanctuary, fellowship hall and Sunday school rooms. Last year, in honor of Scheidt, a large but unused attic space was finished to serve as an area for youth activities. From that first small service, average Sunday 40 June 2016 | SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKER

attendance has grown to more than 375. As the church grows, the average age of the congregation is decreasing, Bouknight said. “We’re growing younger, and the people attracted to us right now are from all demographics,” he said. Trinity stays busy all week. The church sponsors more than 60 small group ministries and service opportunities and provides a meeting location for community groups. “I think it is amazing that in 25 years, which is really a short time, Trinity has managed to have its members involved in every service opportunity in the community, and we financially support many of them also,” Bouknight said. Church member Rich Cairns calls Trinity a grassroots organization, with activities driven by its parishioners. “For me, the most important aspect of Trinity is that in welcoming all, regardless of denomination, we are united in sharing the love of God, and rejecting that which divides. As the banners in the sanctuary proclaim, we are loving, learning, serving and growing together, and we do so not only in worship but in small groups, teams and ministries, all of which emerge from the passions and gifts of individuals in our congregation.”

Trinity Ecumenical Parish is truly three congregations — Episcopal, Lutheran and Presbyterian — working and worshipping together as one church.

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In the second of a four-part historical series, Smith Mountain Laker magazine winds through the first 25 years of SML’s existence — as cabins and campgrounds were built, businesses were established and visitors began to discover many of the recreational opportunities at the Jewel of the Blue Ridge.

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PhotogRaPhy The photographers listed below helped in telling an important part of Smith Mountain Lake history for this issue of Laker magazine. While there are other photographers who, because of incomplete or imprecise records, could not be identified, the majority of the historical images in this issue have been attributed with accuracy and transparency in mind. eric Brady Bill cochran John cook Wayne Deel

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SML’s creation displaced the Mitchell family from their farmhouse, but they soon discovered their calling with one of the lake’s founding marinas.

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mith Mountain Lake was a destination long before many people thought of it as their home. Fishermen, recreational boaters, water skiers and campers converged decades ago on the newly created lake, a summer swell that began to build familiarity with the region and laid the groundwork for permanent residents in more recent years. In the late 1960s and ’70s, “Nobody ever really thought about living here,” said Jeanette Childress, whose family founded Mitchell’s Point Marina in Huddleston. Childress was one of six children of Jesse and Norene Mitchell, whose 125-acre farm in the mid20th century adjoined tiny Craddock Creek. The Mitchells grew tobacco and had cows and pigs; they lived off the land. Their expansive property even included a sawmill. The roads from the farm to White House Corner were dirt and gravel, but like today, their curves catered to Bedford County’s landscape. From White House, paved roads led to Moneta, where the kids could buy a pair of shoes and a few other goods. The closest grocery store was in Bedford. When in town, Buddy’s Burger House was a popular stop, but a meal away from mama’s kitchen was rare. Then, in the 1960s, the lives of Childress and her family changed; Appalachian Power Co.’s Smith Mountain Project was to swallow 75 acres of the Mitchell farm. “We had to move because the lake was coming,” she said. “My dad built a brick ranch up on the upper end of the farm.”

At top. Near the family’s Smith Mountain Lake marina, Jesse Mitchell pulls 3- or 4-year-old grandson Sammie “Buck” Lynch Jr. on skis. Sitting near the bow of the boat is Mitchell’s youngest daughter, Sharon. Above And At left. Race day was a big event at the Mitchells’ marina in Huddleston. The marina hosted three annual powerboat races from 1968 to 1970, drawing scores of people for one of the earliest such events on the young SML waters. At the marina’s launching ramp, trucks and even sedans helped to get boats in the water.

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The family patriarch took the banister, mantle and other items from the old farm house. Then he set fire to the building. Childress said her father left several outhouses standing, including the barn, tractor sheds and chicken houses. To this day, pieces of those structures possibly rest on the floor of Smith Mountain Lake — though still technically on Mitchell family land. “He sold only the right to flood the land; he kept ownership of the land. So we still own the land under the water today,” Childress said. “Some of the farms Apco bought, they bought outright. They bought the whole land.” Jesse Mitchell saw business potential in the lake. Childress, along with her brother, Danny, and sisters, now named Patsy Wirt, Sharon Pierce and twins Diane Bowyer and Joanne Caldwell, had a hand in creating and growing one of the first marinas on SML. “Dad built the snack bar and the docks and everything. When the lake came in, he knew exactly where the water was going to be,” Pierce said. “He used family to build and operate the property. He didn’t want to let it go into debt, so he didn’t want to use outside sources. We did everything as a family.”

‘Lake Life’ begins In 1965, a year before the lake reached full pond, the Mitchells opened their marina, which had the snack bar in addition to the boat ramp and docks. “He wanted to make a nice living for us, but mainly he wanted to provide a service,” Pierce said of her father. “He loved opening up early and greeting all the fishermen. We had no real hours, 48 June 2016 | SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKER

at top. Norene Mitchell walks near the door of the family’s snack bar, which was built at their marina. The snack bar was a hopping place during the summer months, catering to both anglers and recreational boaters. above. The marina’s first gas dock can be seen in this photo from the lake’s early days. A farm house far in the backgound, a stark contrast on the largely unpopulated SML shores, still stands today.

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CloCkwise FRoM ToP leFT. The four youngest Mitchell sisters — Diane, Joanne, Jeanette and Sharon — are dressed for an Easter Sunday service in the late 1950s. The land they are standing on is now underwater. Four of the six Mitchell family siblings are (from left) Jeanette Childress, Danny Mitchell, Patsy Wirt and Sharon Pierce. Jesse Mitchell, known to most simply as “Mr. Mitchell,” is joined by a pet deer at the marina. Joyce Martin of Roanoke holds her young cousin, Danny, circa 1950.

though. He was open when people needed him to be, every day.” The workday, sometimes extending from sunup to sundown, could be long for the family, kids included. “He loved to come in at 6 o’clock in the morning and put money in the jukebox and wake up everybody all over the lake,” Wirt said with a laugh. In the early days, the marina didn’t have boat slips, so concrete blocks were installed to help anchor the boats. The Mitchells had a small boat that they used to taxi people to their larger vessels — a good way for the Mitchell children to earn a little extra money in tips. The area around the snack bar was largely open — Mitchell sold some lots for $2,000 an acre in the early days, but backed off as buyers became overly aggressive. Keeping the bulk of his above-water land gave Mitchell freedom to shape the marina as he saw fit.

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He added camping — primarily tents and truck campers — and free swimming, Wirt said. “You can imagine people coming,” she said. A pad was built at the marina for square dancing on Saturday nights; that same spot doubled as a site for church services, possibly the first marina at SML to make such a thing available, Pierce said. “He wanted it to be a family friendly place, and he wanted it to be accessible. People would come from all over,” Pierce said. On a daily basis, the hours around dawn and dusk drew scores of fishermen, but it was the middle of the day when recreational boats took to the waters and captured the thrills and spirit of SML. Water skiing was almost immediately popular. Some of the bigger boats would try to pull several skiers up at once as they climbed on each other’s shoulders. Additionally, SML’s first boat races were held at the Mitchells’ marina. The Mitchell kids, along with their friends who

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CloCkwise From top leFt. Patsy Wirt sits next to the price list for the Mitchells’ snack bar and marina. Not listed on the sign is swimming, which the marina allowed for free. The Glory Be was owned by Herbert Frazier of Altavista. The vessel was so big that Frazier built a special boat ramp at the marina suitable to launch from in 1966. The boat launch area can be seen during one of the marina’s power-boat races. Two gas pump trucks and a fire engine were on hand for the race-day frenzy. 52 June 2016 | SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKER

visited each summer, took to the water as much as anyone. “I remember us skiing up in the cove, and there were always cows near us grazing. We’d try to spray them,” Pierce said. On their father’s first boat, Wirt remembered burning as much 65 gallons of fuel one Sunday afternoon skiing. She also enjoyed trick skiing, but she was well aware of dangers that the Mitchells’ shore possessed. “If you sling a skier around, and if you don’t know how to stop or fall, you’re going to hit the ground pretty hard,” she said. Some people, however, didn’t go boating. They would simply sit on the dock, eating hot dogs and ice cream and listening to the juke box. Some would play cards. More than anything, summers at the lake in the 1960s and ’70s were fun for everyone. “All of our summer campers would bring their kids, and it would be like summer camp every weekend,” Pierce said. And that meant good business for the marina and its snack bar. “We were busy in the summer. It was dead in the winter and in March, but in the summertime, it was rocking,” Childress said. “In the summers, people were lined up out the door for lunch. “I remember the first time we hit $1,000 for a day,” she said. “That was a huge, huge day!” Still, many visitors told Jesse and Norene Mitchell that they could charge a lot more than they did for their food, but it wasn’t their way to do so. (“He didn’t believe in robbing people,”

Wirt said.) Norene Mitchell grew green beans and squash in the family garden, but, of course, she would share with people who came into the snack bar. That was the culture back then. In many ways, the laid-back pace and friendliness hasn’t changed much over time.

Remaining Rooted The years that the Mitchells owned their marina are memorable ones. As Jesse and Norene Mitchell grew older, it became more difficult to manage the facility. It was sold in the late 1970s and has gone through several owners since. Today is it called Mitchell’s Point Marina & RV Park, and campers lease space on a yearly basis. Jesse Mitchell passed away in 2004; his wife in 2011. All of the siblings currently live in the area, some only temporarily moving as far as Lynchburg. Wirt now resides in the brick home that the family built when the lake was created, barely a mile from the marina. As owner of Lake Retreat Properties, Childress capitalized on the surge in lake homebuying that started in the 1980s; she currently caters to both owners and vacation renters in the region. Childress and her sisters say it’s hard to imagine life being any different — the beauty of Bedford County and the water just around the corner from the dam continues to be a draw for people. “This is a popular section of the lake,” she said. “The water is very pretty and very clear here.”

above. Miss Diablo was a well-known vessel at the power-boat races held at the Mitchells’ marina. below. The site of the Mitchell family farmhouse currently rests under SML’s waters. The home, shown in the early 1960s after demolition had already begun, sat close to Craddock Creek and to the bridge over the tiny waterway. After salvaging what he could from the farmhouse, Jesse Mitchell burned the structure.

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AT LEFT. Sunbathers enjoy the sand and water on the seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opening day of Smith Mountain Lake State Park in 1984. BELOW. Melvin Allbeck gives a blacksmithing demonstration at SML State Park in 1990.

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This story was originally published Dec. 13, 1967, in The Roanoke Times. Smith Mountain Lake State Park officially opened on July 16, 1983.

ppalachian Power Co. gave Virginia $159,350 worth of land Monday for the state park planned for the shores of Smith Mountain Lake. The four parcels of land total 422 acres. About 256 acres are in Bedford County and about 165 in Franklin County. The area includes more than 4 miles of shoreline. SMITHMOUNTAINLAKE.COM

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Joe P. Gills, executive vice president of Appalachian, presented the deeds to the land to M.M. Sutherland, director of the Virginia Department of Conservation and Economic Development, and Ben H. Bolen, state commissioner of parks. Bolen said it was the largest single acquisition of land for the park, to be located about midway between the Appalachian dam and Hale’s Ford Bridge on the “Roanoke River arm” of the lake. The state has bought several small parcels of land for the park, planned ultimately to reach about 1,200 acres, Bolen said. Most of the park will be in Bedford County. The state had estimated how much it would cost to buy the land from Appalachian, Bolen said. 56 June 2016 | SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKER

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CloCkwise FRoM ToP. Clinton Biggs (foreground) of Virginia Beach and Rocky Upshaw of Alexandria catch some sun on a dock at the state park May 25, 1990. They were freshmen at Liberty University at the time. Cline Young of Martinsville shows what she can do to the music of Ted Prillaman and the Virginia Ramblers. The performance was given in July 1983, to celebrate the park’s official opening. Young often accompanied the band to give flat-footing dance shows. Park Superintendent Richard Johnson walks through one of the picnic areas of the park on May 20, 1984.

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“I … suspect we would have run short of money if we had not gotten this gift” from Appalachian, Bolen said. About $500,000 has been provided for acquisition of land, but Bolen said this included cost of surveys, appraisals and legal work. The rest of the land will be acquired as soon as possible, he said, hopefully by next year. The funds for land were provided by the General Assembly this biennium, Bolen said. Money for construction has been requested for the coming biennium. Bolen said 1970 would be the earliest the park could be used. If funds are made available, roads, utilities, picnicking and camping areas could be developed by then, he said. Although the park would not be the largest in Virginia’s system, it would be one of the most used, Bolen said. The land donated by Appalachian was bought during its land acquisition program for the Smith Mountain Pumped Storage and Hydroelectric Development. The project cost the power company about $50 million. Earlier Appalachian gave 100 acres of land in Franklin County to the West Central 4-H District. It also made available land for nine boat launching ramps at Smith Mountain and Leesville lakes.

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mith Mountain Lake Park officially opened Saturday with a dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by about 150 people, including several members of the Virginia General Assembly. While the crowd looked on in 90-degree heat, Sen. Elliot Schewel, D-Lynchburg, and Delegate Lacey Putney, I-Bedford, cut the bright red ribbon that spanned the road entering the park. The park is in Bedford County off Virginia 626 about two miles north of Saunders Marina. After the ribbon-cutting, the politicians and spectators toured the park. They were shown the picnic areas, the nature trail and the new boat ramp. Putney and Sen. Virgil Goode, D-Rocky Mount, then spoke to the spectators in the park’s visitors center. The center is expected to open to the public in April. It was used Saturday to give people some relief from the heat. “This day has been a long time in coming,” Putney said. He said the development of the park had taken a long time because there was difficulty getting funding. The project began in 1975 when workers began clearing the land. But the General Assembly opposed the plan for the park and money wasn’t furnished. Noting that it took awhile to make the park a reality, Putney asked the spectators to “recall all those who worked on this project and gave support to it.” He also said the park would boost the area’s economy. “I feel this will become the best park in the state,” Goode said. He said the Smith Mountain Lake area had come a long way in its two decades of existence as a recreation and residential area. “Now the lake is growing in population as well as beauty,” he said. He said he thinks the park has outstanding potential, and that the public swimming facility, which is not yet open, “is on the way.” According to park supervisor Richard Johnson, “The swimming area is still a few years off.” He said a lot of public support will be needed to turn the facility into reality. Signs along the park’s lakefront state that swimming is illegal, and anyone caught breaking the rule can be charged with trespassing, Johnson said. But the park’s new boat ramp is ready for business. Don Harmon and his wife, Sue, came to the park for the ceremony and then went down to take a look at the new ramp. The Harmons, who own a boat, have just moved to the lake’s Ridgecrest subdivision from upstate New York. “This looks like a really well-built ramp,” Harmon said. He also noted how quickly the water deepened away from the ramp.

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Just after the dedication ceremonies at the park (clockwise from top left) Sen. Ray Garland, R-Roanoke, Del. Lacey Putney, I-Bedford, Catherine Goode, Sen. Virgil Goode, D-Rocky Mount, and Ben Bolen, former commissioner of state parks, are shown. Bolen retired in 1982 and was in charge of buying the land for the park.

His wife said they both were eager for the park to open. She said the park should bring a lot of people to the area, but thinks that won’t bother the residents. Johnson said crews will begin work Monday to complete the additional picnic areas. He said the park’s proposed camping facilities might take as long as five years to complete because they are still being planned. “That takes about a year,” he said, “and then you have to consider the construction time.” The 1,227-acre park is open from 6 a.m. until dark, Johnson said. It has 13 summer staff members and two year-round staff members. He said the park will be open all year if money is available. SMITHMOUNTAINLAKE.COM

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opening near for play area Information center features big contour map of lake area.

The interior of Smith Mountain Dam’s visitor’s center, as it looked in 1980. The center was still under construction in this March 3, 1967, photo.

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left to right. The picnic and recreation area just below Smith Mountain Dam, shown in this sketch from Nov. 9, 1965, has long been a gathering place for visitors to the area and complements the nearby visitor’s center.

This story was originally published June 1, 1967, in The Roanoke Times.

Students from Danville Elementary School visit Smith Mountain Dam in 1990.

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undreds of people have visited Appalachian Power Co.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s information center and recreation area below Smith Mountain Dam while the finishing touches were being put on the $500,000 facility. The power firm plans to open the center formally to the public next week. Area newsmen were given a preview tour of the center today and APCo employees and their families will use it Saturday and Sunday. The area, with permanent picnicking facilities, fireplaces, shelters, rest rooms and play areas for children is on the Pittsylvania County side of Leesville Lake, just below the huge dam that backs up Smith Mountain Lake. The recreation site is reached by following Virginia 777 off Virginia 40 near Penhook in Franklin County. There are 60 picnic tables and three pavilions around a lagoon. The area is open daily until 10 a.m. In addition to the recreation center, there is an information and overlook built on the mountainside above the 227-foothigh dam. The information center is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with supervisory

personnel on duty. In addition to the spectacular view of the dam and parts of Smith Mountain and Leesville Lake, the information center also offers a number of exhibits. Included are a 14-by-28-foot relief map of the lake area and cutaway models showing operation of a hydroelectric plant. Individual headphones are available for persons to hear recorded explanations of the exhibits. Guides will also be on hand to answer questions.

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A fisherman waits for a bite during an outing on March, 9, 1969 — three years after the lake filled up.

By Bill CoChran

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ost of us never had fished a really big lake, so we didn’t know what to expect, 50 years ago this year, when 20,000 acres of water flooded red-dirt farms and pine patches along the Roanoke and Blackwater rivers, giving birth to Smith Mountain Lake. The sprawling body of water and its 500 miles of shoreline forever changed the way we fish, the way we boat and the way we live. Long before the lake reached full pond at 795 feet elevation, state fish officials were stocking millions of fish in a variety of species. Their populations exploded in the rich, new habitat. Fishermen went after them from the bank and from johnboats often launched off old roadways that had been flooded. Real boat ramps were scarce, but most of us during the early years didn’t need one because we could shove our car-toppers over the bank. You literally could catch bass on an empty hook. In fact, Ozzie Worley, who was outdoor columnist for Roanoke’s afternoon newspaper, crafted an article for Sports Afield Magazine on that very subject. It drew the curiosity of Ted Kesting, the publication’s editor, who traveled from New York to sample the fishing first hand. Those early largemouth and smallmouth bass weren’t just abundant and aggressive, but anglers couldn’t believe how hard they fought. Most were under the 12-inch limit and had to be tossed back, but they quickly grew to keeper size and beyond. In 1969, an Ohio fisherman won the first Cave Spring Optimist Club contest with a 9-pound, 4-ounce largemouth. Before long, the lake was producing stringers of bass so large it was difficult to hold them up for pictures. An example, Dale Wilson and Bill Easterly landed 53 bass during a single day. They weighed 11 that tipped the scales at 48 pounds. Half of all the trophy smallmouth caught in Virginia soon were coming from SML. SMITHMOUNTAINLAKE.COM

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fishing Two Virginia Tech students fish at Smith Mountain Lake. The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries notes that SML has gained national attention over the years for its striped bass fishery.

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Many of the big catches of bass were landed by members of the Henry County Bassmasters, one of the first B.A.S.S. clubs in the country. Rather than randomly plugging the shoreline, members perfected structure fishing, which involved using contour maps and depth sounders to locate cover attractive to fish in the middle of the lake. In addition to black bass, the lake held crappie, walleye, striped bass, muskie, trout, white bass, catfish and coho — yes, coho salmon. In the Great Lakes, coho stockings were restoring the fishing in a dramatic way, and some Smith Mountain Lake anglers hoped the same would be true here. Ten thousand eggs were flown to Roanoke from Oregon in 1969 and were hatched in the state’s Marion trout hatchery, then stocked in SML. A few were caught, but as the lake aged, its coldwater habitat subsided. Add to that, predation came with the introduction of striped bass and muskie. In the past, if you wanted to catch a muskie you most likely traveled to Wisconsin or Canada, but that was about to change. One night, Bob Martin, fish division chief of the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries, spoke at a rod and gun club meeting in Roanoke and announced that muskie would be stocked in Smith Mountain Lake. Martin was a biologist with a bit of showmanship, and he fired the spirits of those in attendance with tales of a great fish that when hooked would arrow skyward like an airborne crocodile, its mouth agape, teeth showing, eyes seething. In 1966, approximately 5,000 muskie were stocked. For a time, catches were incidental. Most 68 June 2016 | SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKER

muskie stories started this way, “I was casting for bass and thought I had hung on a snag, but then my line began to take off.” In 1975, a group of hard-nosed purists began to specifically target muskie under the guidance of Carl Franklin of Salem, who formed the Old Dominion Muskie Hunters Club. That April, John Dent landed a 31-pound, 8-ounce state record. When the easy fishing ended, anglers were perplexed. It is common for a new lake to produce explosive fishing its first years, then level off, and even decline, but what happened at Smith Mountain Lake wasn’t just a slowdown — it was a crash. An example: In 1969, 15 members of Sports Afield Magazine’s staff, including fishing experts Homer Circle and Zack Taylor, spent five days fishing from a lodge on the lower end of the lake and managed to land only 12 keeper bass. Some blamed the decline on the huge shad population, saying these fish were taking space that ordinarily would be utilized by game species. The upper Roanoke River arm of the lake was turning the color of putty from pollution flowing out of the Roanoke Valley. When an angler mentioned he was going to fish the sewer, he didn’t have to explain where he was going. Leading the battle for clean water was Col. Leo Bourassa, who left a job in the Pentagon to build Cedar Key, a Canadian-like fishing lodge, on the lower, Bedford County end of the lake. Bourassa was bold, vocal and tenacious. He picked a fight with the lackadaisical State Water Control Board and eventually won a position as a board member.

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FiShing Before long, the pollution problem had been reversed. Striped bass were introduced not just to provide another fish to catch, but also to help control the shad population. The silver-sided fish grew fast on the abundant forage and shad numbers declined. Once entirely a saltwater species, striped bass revolutionized freshwater fishing. They offered the thrill of chasing surface-feeding fish with top-water lures; they introduced anglers to vertical jigging at 40- to 60-feet depths with Hopkins spoons; they provided casting to fish rolling along the shoreline in the black of night.

In the mid-1970s, Sammy Taylor of Vinton landed a 37-pound, 9-ounce state record striper. A tackle shop in the Roanoke Valley iced the fish down and put it on display, calling itself in a newspaper advertisement the “Striped Bass State Headquarters.” Hundreds of people came to see the fish. The record would be broken many times. That’s how it was during the early years of Smith Mountain Lake. It was all about fishing, not high-end houses, not country club golf courses, not shopping centers. Fishermen were the lake’s pioneers. They cleaned the water up and helped put the lake on the map.

Famous early fishermen at SML HOMER CIRCLE A renowned fishing writer, he fished the lake the fall of 1969, along with 14 other staff members of Sports Afield Magazine who were on a business retreat at Cedar Key Lodge. The anglers were able to catch a mere 12 keeper bass during their five-day stay, which was an embarrassment to their host and lodge owner, Col. Leo Bourassa. He blamed the sorry fishing on the scarcity of fish and the over abundance of shad. JOHN POWELL He was a shallow-water, plasticworm fishing pioneer who liked casting to the 500mile shoreline of Smith Mountain Lake so much that he made several trips from his home in Alabama. He loaded up on big bass. One day he was out-fishing me so badly from the bow seat of his boat that I told him if I were in front getting the first casts that I’d probably do as well as he was doing. He said, “Let’s see,” and took my place in the stern. He kept on catching bass and I caught very little from my new position. Powell fished a number of the early B.A.S.S. tournaments and did well. He came to Smith Mountain to promote Crème plastic worms. COTTON CORDELL One of the best-known lure makers, his creations include the Redfin, Spot, Boy Howdy and Big-O. I put him onto a couple of nice striped bass while fishing from my boat. On the outing, I asked him how he came up with the name “Near Nuthin” for one of his surface lures. He told me he had just created the lure and was proudly showing it to a fishing buddy. “What do you think?” Cordell asked him after retrieving it a couple times. “That is the nearest nothing I’ve ever seen,” his friend said.

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ROLAND MARTIN Perhaps the most prestigious fishing award of them all is the “B.A.S.S. Angler of the Year.” Martin has won it nine times, along with 19 major tournaments. But the day he and I fished Smith Mountain started slowly and appeared to be a disaster. I almost could hear Martin’s brain buzzing as he tried to come up with a pattern that would catch bass. And he finally did just that by mid-afternoon, bringing bass after bass came into the boat until he had the kind of stringer he liked to show on this TV show, “Fishing with Roland Martin.” LEFTY KREH Few names in fishing are more famous than this one. Kreh has been a prolific teacher of fly casting most of his life. Now in his 90s, he continues to give seminars, including several scheduled this year. He is the author of a number of books and has written thousands of newspaper and magazine articles on fly fishing. One of his bestknown fly patterns is the Lefty Deceiver, which he brought with him on a visit to Smith Mountain. We were in the lower end of the lake looking for stripers feeding on the surface when I learned Kreh could cast as far with a fly rod as I could with a spinning outfit. It was a day when several fish were spotted, but none liked what we had to offer. JERRY MCKINNIS The folksy host of TV’s “Fishin’ Hole,” McKinnis loved Smith Mountain Lake and visited it several times during its early years, once catching 10 bass that averaged over 4 pounds apiece. I joyfully took a picture of that. He said the lake was like fishing virgin water. He would stand on the bow platform of his bass boat while a buddy was conned into running the TV camera. His syndicated show aired on 70 stations, including WDBJ in Roanoke. McKinnis now is one of the owners of B.A.S.S. — Bill Cochran

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el. Charles Poindexter treasures his time at Smith Mountain Lake. All of it, from early adulthood on. This past March 7, to attend ceremonies that recognized the 50th anniversary of the day SML first reached full pond, Poindexter skipped a legislative session in Richmond. That was a “first” for the nine-year legislator who, as vice chairman of the House Agriculture, Natural Resources and Chesapeake Committee, is immersed in issues concerning stormwater runoff, sewage processing, hunting, fishing and, to his intense satisfaction, boater education. “Smith Mountain Lake is too important to me to have missed being part of the recognition of its first 50 years as a sportsman’s paradise,” he said. Poindexter, 74, first heard rumors about a “big lake coming” while attending the newly consolidated Franklin County High School in the late 1950s. It was a controversial issue — life-changing for most area residents, he recalls. “Homes, churches and cemeteries would be lost,” he said. “With river crossings gone, the lake would divide communities, separate neighbors.” He remembers hearing the results of a contentious board of supervisors’ vote: 4 to 3 in favor of the lake. After that decision, a group of citizens sued to force Appalachian Power Co. to construct bridges that would restore routes used for hauling farm-raised goods to market in Danville. Instead, the court ruled to require the construction of Virginia 834 (which is now Brooks Mill Road) to connect Virginia 40 and 616. Poindexter was born at Roanoke Memorial Hospital, which was the closest hospital to Franklin County at the time. His boyhood was spent on a farm near Crafts United Methodist Church on Webster Road in Glade Hill. Before the lake, folks from the north side got to church by turning right along the river (where Crafts Ford Road now makes its 180-degree left-hand bend toward the W.E. Skelton 4-H Educational Conference Center) and crossing at Crafts Ford Bridge (a public boat ramp is now the “end” of that road). As the water rose in the early 1960s, that crossing was no longer available, and the church struggled to survive. A number of other crossings were submerged as well, including Anthony Ford across the Roanoke

River (not far from where the dam was built) and Kemp Ford in Union Hall. Gills Creek ran under Lovely Valley Road through a series of 6-foot culverts referred to as Low Water Bridge. “There was some very nice whitewater in the rivers,” Poindexter recalled. Poindexter and his friends would wade from Crafts Ford down to a spot where they had left a car, casting for catfish, brim and eel. Or they’d trudge upstream with gunny sacks, reaching into holes under rocks to grab mud and channel cats by the gills. “My dad farmed and saw-milled full-time until the late 1940s,” Poindexter recounted. “But he had spent WWII in Tennessee working on TVA projects and knew about wiring and plumbing. With electricity coming to the area, he wired and plumbed our place and the homes of neighbors. I remember mom and dad having friends over for a ‘power’s on!’ party. Everyone went in and flushed the commode.” A big issue at the time: Where to put the power poles. “Nobody wanted them in their fields,” Poindexter said, chuckling. Secondary roads like Scruggs, Crafts Ford and Webster weren’t paved until the late 1950s. “Lots of kids rode the school bus an hour or more to get to Rocky Mount,” Poindexter noted. “There was no ‘activity bus.’ If you stayed for sports (the 6-foot-5-inch Poindexter played center on the FCHS basketball team), you thumbed your rides home. But everyone would pick you up, no problem.”

Dam construction brought new occupations

By 1961 when crews began pouring concrete for the dam, Poindexter’s dad, Francis, had established a car and truck repair center in Rocky Mount, near where Dollar Tree and Bojangles now reside. “It was the first business east of the high school and handy to the railroad siding where carloads of lumber, steel, sand and gravel were arriving daily. A fleet of 60 or 70 trucks ran to and from the dam along Route 40. Dad sold fuel and repaired those trucks as needed. I worked there during my college summers,” Poindexter said. “Dad wasn’t well-educated, but he was a great mechanic and a likeable soul who was in the right place at the right SMITHMOUNTAINLAKE.COM

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few turkeys until the ’60s, and deer were nearly non-existent until they migrated east from the Philpott area, where they had been stocked in from Pennsylvania 10 years before.” Foulground Creek, near today’s Ponderosa Campground, and Poplar Camp Creek, near the 4-H center, both flowed into the Blackwater River and had “the biggest fish, frogs and eels,” Poindexter recalled. “The nearest store at the time was Powell’s, just up Webster Road.” The summer before the water began rising, Poindexter’s father decided to build a boathouse at the predicted 795-foot elevation, and Poindexter helped. “We set pilings with posthole diggers and milled trees for deck boards, walls and rafters,” he said. By 1967, the completed structure — still the family dock today — had two slips, a 12-by-12-foot storage shed and a similarly-sized sitting area.

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Sunlight reflects off the ice of SML on Jan. 22, 1983. Many crossings were submerged when the lake filled in the 1960s.

time. The business flourished.” Like his father, Poindexter had been workhardened as a boy. The family harvested about 150 acres of wheat, and there was the small sawmill on the property to tend. Neighbors grew tobacco, and Poindexter earned 75 cents an hour helping them with topping and with priming (pulling bottom leaves off the stalks — done in the morning when dew from the leaves helped keep the field workers cool) and tying leaves to 42-inch sticks (done in the afternoons when it was too hot to be in the fields) that were hoisted onto tier poles inside log tobacco-drying barns. Someone had to tend the wood fires in every barn throughout the days and nights for each three-day cycle. Then the leaves were removed from the sticks and placed in a pit to cure and regain moisture lost during the curing process. “Early morning — from daybreak until breakfast — was when the boys hunted for rabbits, squirrels and quail,” Poindexter said. “There were very 74 June 2016 | SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKER

As the lake began filling, Poindexter and his friends used a 12-foot john boat for fishing. “We could go a bit further up stream each week,” he recalled, “and the water was teeming with largemouth bass — 13 to 16 inches. Game wardens began issuing citations for being over limit, but the locals feasted on fresh fish nonetheless.” A lifelong resident of the beautif And with the lake finally closing in around their new dock, Poindexter’s father bought a 1967 Sea Bird with a “massive” 120 hp MerCruiser stern drive. The Poindexters were fond of taking rides to the dam and watching for signs of fishing camps and the occasional new home being established along the lakefront. “The water was really clear and nice then,” Poindexter said. “No runoff from upstream building, and the herds of dairy and beef cattle were smaller. If someone had 20 head back then, that was a lot.” The ’67 Sea Bird still nests in the Poindexter boathouse near marker B-41, and it is still used for pulling the grandchildren — there are 10 of them, ages 9 to 18 — on tubes and skis. Poindexter laments as he talks of the lake’s “fence” effect — “Our home church, Crafts MLS#806715, Methodist, nearly closed when two-thirds$400,000, of the Over 7 Private congregation could no longer get there easily,” he said — and of the “simple, rural way of life” giving way to a more “suburban” lifestyle. In the next breath, though, he celebrates the lake as an economic driver that has brought prosperity to many area residents and businesses. “Westlake is a whole new town that didn’t exist earlier in my lifetime,” he said.MLS#807719, “And the people who $595,000, Dream Home L have moved here give willingly. They support the community, value education and the arts, eagerly assist those in need. America is about assimilation, and we’ve managed that pretty well here at Smith Mountain Lake.”

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Jim Mills spoke as part of the SML History Eye Witness Series, which gave a glimpse into what business was like during the lake’s early years. Mills has been at the lake since the ’60s and opened Webster Marine in the ’70s.

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im Mills was drawn to Smith Mountain Lake in the 1960s for one simple reason: his love of boats. As the founder and owner of Webster Marine Center on the Bedford County side of Hales Ford Bridge, Mills has been able to turn his passion into a profession. The funny thing is, Mills had never been around boats until he was 22. He had just gotten out of the Army, and soon afterward came with a friend to “the lake we’d been hearing so much about.” It wasn’t long afterward that he bought a boat and learned how to water ski. “From then on, I was hooked,” he said. One of the places he launched that first boat from was the old road that led to the first Hales Ford Bridge. Little did he know that he would be in business at that same spot about a decade later. In those early days, the water level was 60 feet less, and trees were still peeking out of the surface. Sometimes, as he’d be skiing — the boat would go one way around a tree, and he would go the other, using the rope to jerk the sycamore balls off of their branches. “That was good, fun stuff,” he said with delightful reminiscence. He was one of the first barefoot skiers on SML. Fun and friendly competition were commonplace — his longest trip skiing was 84 miles, something that a friend challenged him to. The rules were “whoever falls first or the most loses,” Mills said. “Well, the other guy fell twice.” The waters of SML represented the perfect

work-life balance for Mills. He played there, and starting in 1968, he worked there, too. After working for a boat dealer in Salem, Mills took a job with Smith Mountain Yacht Club in 1968. Primarily focusing on service work, he and a business partner leased the service area of the yacht club before parting ways in 1977. That was the year Webster Marine Center was born on an acre and a half of land along the now busy Virginia 122. “At the time there wasn’t much of anything here,” said Mills, now 78 and still working with the company. “There was only a 30-by-50-foot building that a good wind would’ve blown over.” The doors were nearly falling off the hinges, and the roof leaked. “You had to have an umbrella indoors if you worked during a rain,” he said. But Mills, along with his wife, persevered in growing the business. Eventually his father came and worked for him. It was tough in those first three or four years, Mills said. But the 1980s changed that. Recreational boats were beginning to replace fishing boats as the dominant vessels on the water. Sales increased. Mills bought the land his business is on, and then expanded to 3 acres. He also hired repair technicians, salesmen and clerks. “It was kind of accidental that I got into this business,” he said, “but it was because I loved it so much.” Today, Webster Marine employs 18 people. Not coincidentally, much of that growth can be attributed to the three cornerstones of real estate: location, location, location. “Almost every marina on this lake is at the end of a dead-end road. This is one of the few that isn’t,” Mills noted. However, another component of that growth was the increase in the lake-area population, particularly of retirees. Mills said he never envisioned Smith Mountain Lake growing into what it is today, but he always felt that he wanted to be in an advantageous position to sell boats. The first Nautique he ever sold was for $7,500. Now, he has ones sitting on his lot listed at $140,000. “It’s an amazing place,” he said. “Who would’ve ever thought you could sell five or six $140,000 ski boats in a year?” SMITHMOUNTAINLAKE.COM

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Several brands of boats have passed through his doors over the decades: He’s sold about 2,200 Hurricanes since 1982; Benningtons have edged out many other pontoon and tritoon brands; and Sea Doos have … well, let’s just say that Sea Doos have been a game-changer for life on the lake. In the early 1990s, a friend urged Mills into becoming a Sea Doo dealer. Mills was initially reluctant but relented. After meeting with the

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Joseph Vipperman had a 40-year career with American Electric Power, which included a stint as president of the Appalachian Power division from 1989 to 1996.

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Utility plAyer Joseph Vipperman, a former Appalachian Power president, found his way back to the lake and to the community he loves.

By Ryan Tipps

t 15 years old and in his first job in a grocery store, Joseph Vipperman was tasked with transferring individual eggs out of their shipping crates and into the cartons that customers would buy. Over and over, he used one hand to painstakingly fill the cartons. Eventually, his boss came over, put his arm around him and said, “ ‘Joe, the good Lord gave you two hands, and I’m paying for both of them.’” “What he wanted was an honest day’s work out of me,” Vipperman said. “And that stuck with me and has been the driver for me all along.” If Vipperman’s name sounds familiar, it might be because it has adorned the visitor’s center at the Smith Mountain Dam since 2011. A former Appalachian Power Co. president and longtime executive with parent company American Electric Power, Vipperman retired to the Scruggs area after 40 years with AEP. “I can’t think of any place I’d rather be than Smith Mountain Lake,” he said, assuredly. Though he lost his father in World War II, the native of Patrick County had many positive influences during his youth. His mother, a postal employee, was the guiding force of the family. Teachers, bosses and his minister played a key role. Vipperman enrolled at Virginia Tech, and joined the Corps of Cadets, a decision that was meaningful from both educational and personal standpoints. Unlike military academies, the corps wasn’t run by military officers but rather by the cadets themselves. His final year, he was on the regimental staff. “A senior would have 120 cadets under him, most three years younger than he,” Vipperman said. “He couldn’t fire them or hire them or withhold their wages or anything else. He had to get them to do what he wanted through his leadership skills. It really helped me, at a very young age, to develop leadership skills.”

Vipperman long had an analytical slant — he enjoyed math and science and didn’t have an inclination toward fields that required a lot of memorization. He got a degree in electrical engineering from Tech before fulfilling his three-year military obligation and getting hired at Appalachian. “Though I didn’t end up specifically practicing engineering very long with AEP, I still found that engineering approaches to problem-solving helped throughout my career — and still does today,” he said. His first role at Appalachian was as a distribution engineer, working on the power lines that are commonplace in neighborhoods and business districts. Even as the low man on the totem pole, he needed those problem-solving skills while engaging the public. Vipperman recalls one instance, early in his career, when a complaint call was routed to him at his desk in Roanoke. The SML marina operator on the other end of the phone said water levels were down, and they were affecting his business. Vipperman suggested that the marina operator pull the boats out to deeper water for the time being. It wasn’t necessarily a profound or permanent solution, but it would work. A week later, the local newspaper wrote an article on the drought, and the marina operator quoted that tidbit of advice he received from an “Appalachian executive.” Vipperman laughs as he thinks about it. Of course, when he fielded that call, he wasn’t an executive — yet. After the stint in Roanoke, Vipperman was transferred to AEP’s corporate headquarters in New York City, focusing on engineering operations. The company sent him to MIT for a graduate degree, and he returned to the office as a corporate controller. SMITHMOUNTAINLAKE.COM

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AEP relocated its headquarters to Columbus, Ohio, and Vipperman and his family followed the company there. He worked in general operations until 1989 when he was selected to be president of the company’s Appalachian Power wing. It was around this time that the population of Smith Mountain Lake began to boom. Bigger homes for permanent residents started to spring up on shores that had long catered to smaller (and often temporary) dwellings. In the big picture, SML was on the far eastern end of AEP’s then-seven-state territory. It wasn’t developed yet, and finding a way to transmit power from Smith Mountain Dam’s pump-back system and distribute power to the growing residential and business populations was a challenge for Appalachian. “From a distribution standpoint, this was an extremely rural area. Lots of farms and fairly sparsely populated area,” Vipperman said. “The lines we had down here weren’t designed for that kind of service.” The many coves, peninsulas and wooded areas of SML presented logistical challenges to the utility. “We had to design and construct the distribution lines,” Vipperman said. “It was very expensive given the amount of customers we were serving at that time.” The former executive credits the establishment of Bernard’s Landing in Franklin County as the turning point for the lake’s residential population — and for a revamped approach to electrical usage in the area. Before Bernard’s was built, the lake had an abundance of low-usage cottages, camping areas and mobile home parks. “All of them were really great in that they began to spread the word about Smith Mountain Lake, but there weren’t concentrated [electrical] loads of any type,” he said. “When Bernard’s Landing came in, you had a completely different type of construction in a concentrated area.” Vipperman and his team spent seven years outfitting the growing lake area with power lines and working with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on how to handle many of SML’s needs on the water and on land. In 1996, as AEP centralized many of its 82 June 2016 | SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKER

Water churns below Smith Mountain Dam on July 29, 1980. The renewable-energy pump-back generator has important financial implications for the broader American Electric Power territory.

operations at its Columbus headquarters, Vipperman relocated. He ran the company’s transmission and distribution organization before moving to support services. He retired in 2002. With family in Virginia and many close corporate friends in the area, Vipperman and his wife found their way back to the lake. He sees what the developers and small businesses have created at SML and how the community has evolved. Though he notes that AEP’s “visionaries” foresaw many of the economic and recreational opportunities that the lake has provided — borne out by the fact that they set aside land for the 4-H center, the state park, the county park and boat ramps, he said — he admits that the region has outpaced his expectations. “I clearly didn’t, in the first 25 years of the lake, expect it to become what it has become,” he said. “I always thought it would be an attractive rural setting, which would entice people within 120 miles from here. It’s just blown me away when you see what it really has become. “By and large,” he said, “I think it’s the people that make this place great and so different and so attractive to other folks.”

Dam economics The economics of the Smith Mountain Project’s pump-back system can be complicated, but former Appalachian Power President Joseph Vipperman puts it in the context of the company’s renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. Coal-fired plants are called baseload units, he said, meaning they can be fired and run 24/7. The more coal that’s fed, the longer they can go. Smith Mountain Dam, on the other hand, is dependent on the water flow in the area. It can supply power during peak loads, but only for a few hours a day. Baseload units run great at full load, however, they have a critical low point. As the load backs off at night, on holidays and during weekends, a unit can’t keep

running if the load drops to roughly 50 percent of its capability. “If it falls below that, you’re basically faced with a situation of shutting it down and then starting it up the next day or whenever the load picks up,” Vipperman said. “What the pump-back operation does here is when we’re pumping the water back up [during off-peak hours], that places some load on those base units, and they’re able to continue to operate.” Before Vipperman retired, he said it cost about $250,000 to start baseload units if they were taken offline. The pump-back system meant that they could continue running and avoid the restart costs. “It was economical in the long run,” he said.

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Phil Hager grew his insurance agency in a relatively remote Westlake three decades ago and helped to found the wine festival and SML Partnership.

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it a spell with Phil Hager and you’re bound to learn something about U.S. history, the insurance industry, the lake in the early years, or a combination of all three. The former high school history teacher and long-time owner of Phil Hager Insurance Agency applies the principles of teaching to running his insurance business. To illustrate the services that his business offers, Hager provides an analogy that includes two baskets of bite-size candy bars. In one basket, the candy bars are all the same, but the other basket contains bars of all types — ones made of milk and dark chocolate and ones that include mixed nuts. “Most people are going to pick from a basket that has choices,” Hager reasoned. “That’s the difference between having one brand and having multiple choices.” When he opened his insurance business 32 years ago at Westlake Corner, Hager decided that the business would be a onestop shop for his clients. “Clients should prepare to spend some time having their situation analyzed,” he said. “That’s how we’ve built the agency, and the result of that is a lot less confusion about coverage. That’s our style, and we’ve been very successful with that.” Success didn’t come easily when Hager first opened his shop in 1984 at Westlake Corner in the Fairway Village Shopping Center. “I had to operate out of the real estate office that was developing

Phil Hager opened his business 32 years ago at Westlake.

the project,” Hager recalled, because the shopping center was still under construction at the time. Standing on the front porch of the building, Hager reflected on what he’d done to get to where he was. “I was the manager of the Farm Bureau Insurance office in Roanoke,” he said. “I gave up my salary and my benefits.” Nothing existed at Westlake Corner other than an old country store where Duck In stands today and the old Hales Ford Academy one-room schoolhouse on the opposite side of Virginia 122. “There was no stoplight, no Food Lion,” Hager said. “There was no Kroger down the road. Anything beyond that was pasture land.” But Hager stayed because he knew he was in the right place. Plus, there were no other agencies in the area. “It didn’t grow as fast as I thought it would,” Hager admitted. To meet new people, Hager joined the Smith Mountain Lake Rotary Club and the Smith Mountain Lake Lions Club. He would make stops up and down the Virginia 122 corridor, working as a one-man marketer. Relationships developed. Friendships were forged. A couple of years later, Hager teamed up with business leaders, including Ron Willard Sr., Carol Leggett Hommel, Ed Waters and others, to form the Smith Mountain Lake Partnership. The partnership, Hager reasoned, would help drum up business and grow tourism at the lake. “We decided to use the 20th anniversary of the lake as a kickoff,” Hager recalled. On an empty lot next to Hales Ford Bridge, a giant birthday cake, made of plywood and plaster, was included as part of the celebration. “It was lit up at night,” Hager said. “It was a very nice idea.

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Fairway Village Shopping Center was the site of Phil Hager’s first insurance agency at the lake. The center is shown here in 1986, two years after Hager opened.

That was the beginning of the partnership.” Once Bridgewater Plaza opened, the partnership, which later became the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce, moved into the same space where the visitor center is today, Hager said, and became the catalyst of annual events like the Fall Festival and Smith Mountain Lake Wine Festival. Each of the lake’s shopping centers, from White House to Westlake Corner, would provide their own vendors, entertainment and fun for all ages. “It was designed as an extension of the season,” Hager said. “The idea was for people to come from different areas to do their craft shopping.” Even today, Bridgewater Plaza continues to host a Fall Festival with activities from pony rides and face painting to craft demonstrations and live music. In its first year, more than 1,500 people attended the wine festival, held at The Manor at Taylor’s Store, once a bed and breakfast along Virginia 122 near Burnt Chimney, Hager said. “That was a lot of people for that time,” Hager said. Eventually, the festival was extended to include a second day and, due to space constraints, moved to a waterfront location at

Bernard’s Landing. For many years, the Smith Mountain Lake Wine Festival was a family affair that included Hager’s wife, Margaret, and son, Gavin (he also has a daughter, Gretchen). “Margaret ran the gate with volunteers, Gavin and his friends did the ice and trash pick-up, and I was kind of the all-purpose person walking around,” Hager recalled. “It was a lot of effort and time put into it.” In the more than three decades that Hager has called the lake home, he’s seen vast changes. One of those changes came in 2008 when he took another leap and built an office complex on Virginia 122 near Westlake Corner. While the timing wasn’t great — it was in the middle of the lake’s economic downturn — Hager’s agency, which now includes six employees, including Margaret and Gavin, managed to weather the storm. And, while he acknowledged that customers have more choices than ever — think back to the analogy with the basket of candy bars — Hager said he applauds lake residents and visitors for the shop-local movement that he’s seen grow over the years. “I think ‘shop SML’ has more meaning now.” SMITHMOUNTAINLAKE.COM

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Calvin Woodford, 91, grew up on a farm and has lived in Bedford County most of his life.

river ran through it Calvin Woodford, the founder of Moneta Farm & Home Center, has been a vital community leader as well as a businessman.

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alvin Woodford, founder of the Moneta Farm and Home Center in Moneta, has lived his whole life in Bedford County. He has seen a lot of changes in his 91 years. Some of the changes were the result of Smith Mountain Lake. Many others, however, were instigated by Woodford himself. “The lake, as you know, tremendously changed this area, no question,” Woodford said. “If they had not done that, it would have been a residential area for Roanoke and Lynchburg, I am sure — but nothing like it is now. But most everybody here, you couldn’t visualize what is up there now.” Woodford remembered taking a boat onto the river with his father and his brother the same day the dam was “plugged.” “The river was still in the river bed when we went out,” he said. “We were out for an hour or two. When we came back, the water was over the bed and up to the wheels on our Jeep.” The Woodford family also profited from the new lake. “My brother and dad owned a farm on both sides of the river and then the lake came up,” Woodford recalled. “They did pretty well. My mother kept a book and they sold lots for $5,000 and $6,000, and they didn’t pay but a little bit for the farm.” Woodford said his father wanted to live long enough to see the lake completely full. He almost made that goal, passing away in 1964. In 1950, after serving in the Navy during World War II and earning a degree in poultry husbandry at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Woodford returned to the family farm with his wife and raised chickens for many years. In the early 1970s, he realized he needed to expand or get out of the business. His way out was a Southern States franchise that was offered to him in 1973. The store was built on the chicken farm, using some of the chicken houses and was the predecessor of the current store. “When I opened it, it was a farm store really. Most of it what we sold were farm articles and plumbing materials,” he said. When Woodford retired, his sons, Stuart and Jimmy, took over as

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Woodford’s business along Virginia 122 in Bedford County began primarily as a farm store, but as the lake’s population grew, the business catered to that and has in recent years been renamed Moneta Farm & Home Center.

partners and expanded the operation into what it is today. “The lake made everything possible,” Woodford said. “It could not have operated without the people.” Besides the changes the lake brought, Woodford also played a part in bringing change to the area. In 1954, Woodford and 33 other men founded the first civic group in the area, the Ruritans. This group was the impetus for many projects, among them was getting the Moneta bypass built over the train tracks. During the Cold War, they built a tower and manned it 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a year to make sure Russian planes did not escape radar by flying low through Smith Mountain Gap. The Ruritans also founded the Moneta Fire Department. “Before that, we just let it burn,” Woodford explained. “There was a house up on the hill that burnt down, and that was kind of the stimulus to get something moving on it. “When we first organized, we had what we called a first aid crew,” he added. “We bought an old hearse and painted it red.” Once the department was established, Woodford stayed on for 30 years, as both a fireman and the chief. SMITHMOUNTAINLAKE.COM

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“The river was still in the river bed when we went out, we were out for an hour or two. When we came back, the water was over the bed and up to the wheels on our Jeep.” He is most proud of his role in the founding of Moneta Medical Center. “We had an old country doctor, Dr. Sam,” Woodford said. “There was a little 12-by-12-[foot] building, and that was his office. You went up there and you sat in your car. It was the honor system: You saw how many cars there were and where you fall in, and he would come to the door and say ‘next’ and you would go in. He had big bottles of medicine, and you would just pour your medicine out. There wasn’t any drug store here.” When Dr. Sam’s eyesight started to go, the Ruritans contacted the government for assistance in getting doctors to the still-rural area. Through a government program, two doctors would be sent

to the area as long as a building was supplied. This was the start of the Moneta Medical Center. “So we bought a strip of land with a big brick house on it, and we fixed it up for the doctors to practice,” Woodford recalled. “It went so well they outgrew it, and we raised money and built the building where they are now. I’ve been involved with the Moneta Medical Center for 40 years. I can’t imagine Moneta without that facility.” Woodford retired when he was 64 and traveled the world with Macklyn, his wife of 67 years. He has, however, continued to work with the Ruritans (he is the only surviving founding member) and the Moneta Medical Center. He is just now considering slowing down a bit.

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Tom Howell, 69, grew up in Roanoke, but spent childhood summers with his mother’s Hannabass relatives in the Moneta area, learning something about farming tobacco, tomatoes and hogs.

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om Howell first saw Smith Mountain Lake when he hitchhiked home from college. He caught a series of rides, the last one dropping him off on Scruggs Road, and walked the final leg of the journey to the acre of land his parents had bought on Gills Creek. It was the late 1960s. At first, there was no house on the property, but there were steps down to the water and a dock. The Howell family camped out in Army surplus tents, cooked over an open fire and sent the children down to the lake with a bar of soap when it was time to clean up for dinner, Howell said. “There were very few houses on the lake, but my father was big into skiing and always buying ski boats,” Howell said. Howell, 69, grew up in Roanoke, but spent childhood summers with his mother’s Hannabass relatives in the Moneta area, learning something about farming tobacco, tomatoes and hogs. He visited his great-grandmother “Mama” Martin, who ran a cafe near the rail line, where railroaders and the occasional hobo would stop for lunch. “It was a wonderful childhood,” he said, but while the lake was under construction and filling up, he went off to American University, where he developed interests in

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film and parapsychology. Then he hit the road to see the country. But periodically he made it back to the lake, for waterskiing and family campfires in the summer and to play Santa for his nieces and nephews. “In the ’70s, I was a 20-something longhaired hippie, who was called to the lake to be Santa Claus for family Christmas,” he said. He loves to recall the early days on the lake with his extended family. “The big thing was to get in a boat and go somewhere — Christmas Tree Island for a campfire, the cliffs to jump off. One of my main memories is getting to ride a Jet Ski for the first time and getting lost on the lake,” Howell said. At first, trees were still visible in the lake, he recalled. “There was a big tree sticking up between Christmas Tree Island and our cove, a big black hulk of a trunk, but the next summer it was gone,” he said. His father, a Boy Scout executive who organized skits and stories around the campfire and made sure all the family’s children learned to swim, died in 1972. His mother, Lillian Hannabass Howell, kept up the house for a few years. But as all the children grew up, the family no longer gathered at the lake so often. “Then it all faded away and my mother ended up in the lake house by herself,” Howell said. “She was isolated there, especially in the winter, and she decided to sell it.” Today Howell lives in Hardy. He is a psychic investigator, performance artist and writer with an interest in steam punk, science fiction and 1960s music that evokes fantasy. He also has a deep appreciation for those early years at the lake. “I think I turned out the way I did because of the campfires and the skits we did,” he said. “The lake was a center point. It was a gathering point. It was the family home.” SMITHMOUNTAINLAKE.COM

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This story was originally published Jan. 26, 2007, in The Lake section of The Roanoke Times.

first saw the name Bernard in a 1992 article in The Washington Post describing one of Virginia’s best kept secrets — Smith Mountain Lake. The article recommended Bernard’s Landing as a place to stay when visiting the area. My wife and I took the suggestion, and like so many before and after, we fell in love with the area and made plans to retire there.

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places Bernard, Bernard, Bernard. Who were these folks we kept hearing about and how did they come to be a part of the Smith Mountain Lake story? My conversations with 81-year-old Florine “Flo” Bernard, who lives in Bedford; her daughter, Ann Coffey; and son, John Bernard III, revealed part of a tale that spans several generations. John Bruce Bernard II was born in Bedford on July 7, 1917, and married Florine “Flo” Peters from Boones Mill in Franklin County in 1950. John Bernard owned and operated a feed, seed and COURTESy Of BERNARD’S LANDINg

farm supply store in Bedford. Flo’s cousin sold fertilizer to the Bernard store and thought it might be a good idea for Flo and John to meet. A dinner at the Hotel Roanoke was arranged in 1948. A second date followed and as Flo recalled, “that was that.” John’s grandfather owned a 1,000-acre farm in southern Franklin County where he raised about 250 head of cattle, along with some hogs and horses. He sold the farm to his brother, and eventually Flo’s husband bought the farm from his uncle at auction in 1950. Because they continued to operate the Bedford store, the Bernards used a caretaker to run the farm. The caretaker lived in a house on the farm that was originally built by the Saunders family in the mid-1800s. The house still stands today on a small hill at Bernard’s Landing where it serves as the resort’s clubhouse. On July 4, 1951, a fire broke out at the Bernards’ store. The Bedford Fire Department, working at another location, could not get to the AT LEFT. A beautiful view greets those staying at Bernard’s Landing. bELow. Operations at the original Bernard farm stopped after 900 of its 1,000 acres were covered by the lake..

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AT LEFT. Weddings and other events are popular at Bernard’s Landing in Scruggs. bELow. Pontoon boats are docked on the shores of Bernard’s Landing in 1985.

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In the early 1980s, they sold a portion of the remaining lakefront property to David Wilson, a developer, who went on to build Bernard’s Landing in 1984.

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site in time to save the building. At that point the Bernards turned their attention to the farm. In 1953, the caretaker left and Flo Bernard spent two years living in the farmhouse with her husband and an aunt. “I remember a large oil stove that we used for heat; it was such fun living there. My husband had bought a trailer that we stayed in when the caretaker was living in the house. He [John Bernard] and his friends would often come out there to hunt, and I often wound up as the only female in the group. Perhaps it was because they enjoyed my squirrel stew.” It was from the trailer that the Bernards watched the lake fill after the dam was completed. Operations at the farm ended after 900 of the 1,000 acres were lost to the lake. In the early 1980s, they sold a portion of the remaining lakefront property to David Wilson, a developer, who went on to build Bernard’s Landing in 1984. Flo Bernard admits she was saddened when the farm gave way to the lake. She recalled the frequent day trips she and her husband made to the farm where they eventually built a boathouse and then the small bungalow above it. No one lives there full time now. Flo Bernard still enjoys visiting there during the warmer months of the year with her family which includes her children, Coffey, Bernard and another daughter, Flora Lena Harris; their spouses and six grandchildren. When asked what she misses most about her life before and after the lake, Flo Bernard answers without hesitation: “What I miss most is my husband.” John Bernard died in 1987.

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ABOVE. The bright yellow water slides at Smith Mountain Dock and Lodge were a summer draw for young and old alike in Penhook. Shown here May 14, 1984, the slides were in place under the dock’s former owner, Rick Munson.

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AT LEFT. Wade Harrison jumps off the Hardy Ford Bridge, which connects Bedford and Franklin counties at the northwestern end of Smith Mountain Lake. BELOW. The Smith Mountain Lake airport has had its ups and downs over the years. Established in the 1960s, its longtime owner was Joe Borgess, who sold the facility in 2015 and retired. This image shows the airport in May 1983.

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AT LEFT. The Smith Mountain Lake Partnership celebrated the 20th anniversary of the lake reaching full poind in several ways, including putting this large cake at the end of Hales Ford Bridge. The cake is made of wood and plaster. On it are (from top to bottom), Carol Middleton, executive director of the partnership; Dave Cappellari, cake builder; and Ron Willard Sr., president of the partnership. AT RIGHT. Bridgewater Plaza is shown shortly after initial construction was completed in 1988. BELOW LEFT AND RIGHT. Ron Willard Sr. discusses plans for a development with Franklin County officials in April 1985. Willard has been the driving force behind such high-end SML communities as The Waterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Edge, shown under construction on March 26, 1986. WAYNE ScARBERRY | THE ROANOkE TImES

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OPPOSITE PAGE, TOP. Elsworth Hughson of Gretna (right) shows visiting brother-in-law Onis Swan of New York the Smith Mountain Lake Dam he helped construct when he was a superintendent in the early 1960s. OPPOSITE PAGE, BOTTOM. Ron Willard Sr. stands near the sign for one his flagship developments, The Waterfront, in Franklin County. The community has a nearly 7,000-yard course designed by architect George Dillon. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT. On March 29, 1981, a technician from General Electricâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Apparatus Service Division installs new coils in repairs to a hydro generator at Smith Mountain Dam. A sermon is given at the Bill Bowling Memorial Chapel on Aug. 3, 1990. A boat parade June 22, 1986, celebrates the 20th anniversary of Smith Mountain Lake reaching full pond.

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’80s-’90s BELOW. John Hensley, the owner of John’s Place, shows off his pride for the Scruggs community on May 22, 1983. AT RIGHT. Northern Virginia transplant Charles Hutto, shown July 30, 1989, planned his backyard at SML with his five grandchilden, including Benjamin Hutto, in mind. BOTTOM. High water flooded the dining room of the Cove Restaurant in Bedford County following two days of heavy rain in April 1987.

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8360 Hardy Road, Hardy • 540-890-2194 • bayroc-marina.com In-season hours: Open daily but hours vary. Check website for details. Located on the north end of the lake, convenient to Roanoke, Bay Roc offers simple, down-home favorites for breakfast and lunch daily throughout the summer. Grab takeout for the boat or dine on the deck. On select Fridays and Saturdays, the restaurant hosts popular beer tastings, fish fries and pig roasts.

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1 THE WAILERS | Live music at Harvester Performance Center. $29. 8 p.m.

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2016 Calendar

Find more events in Laker Weekly and online at smithmountainlake.com!

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RECEPTION FOR 50TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBIT: HISTORICAL PHOTOS OF SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE | Reception for SML 50th anniversary historical photo exhibit at the Moneta/ Smith Mountain Lake Library. Includes keynote speaker and light refreshments. Free. 7-8 p.m. bplsonline. org

3 SML INVITATIONAL GOLF TOURNAMENT | At The Westlake Golf & Country Club, Hardy. (540) 721-1203, visitsmithmountainlake.com SCYTHIAN | Live music at Harvester Performance Center. $24. 8 p.m. LAKESIDE SINGERS |JUNE 3-4 | Live music at Trinity Ecumenical Parish. 7 p.m. smithmountainartscouncil.com UPTOWN BAND | Live music at Mango’s Bar & Grill. 7:30 p.m.

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4 JOYOUS JUNQUE | JUNE 4-5 | Yard sale at Resurrection Catholic Church with proceeds going to local nonprofits. 7 a.m.-4 p.m. June 4; 9 a.m.-3 p.m. June 5.. JERSEY GIRLS WALK FOR THE ANIMALS | A 5K run/walk fundraiser at Moneta Park to benefit animal-related charities in the Smith Mountain Lake area. Includes dog and cat vendors, photo with pet opportunity, area artists, food, music and an obstacle course. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., run/ walk begins at 10 a.m.jgofsml.com APPALACHIAN HERITAGE DAYS | Event includes Appalachian authors, live music, demonstrations, craft vendors, demonstrations, corn hole games, face painting for the kids at Crazy Horse Marina. Free. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. visitsmithmountainlake.com PAINTING DEMO | Donna Coleman at The Little Gallery, Bridgewater Plaza. 1-3 p.m. (540) 721-1596, thelittlegallerysml.com 7 MILE FORD | Live music at Mango’s Bar & Grill. 7:30 p.m.

for BEST the BET fourth TRISCALE | Live music at Sunken City Brewing Co. GOOSE GOSSETT | Live music at Ole School Sports Pub & Grill. 9 p.m.

5 BARRY YOUNG | Live music at Mango’s Bar & Grill. 2 p.m.

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JULY 1 MITCHELL’S POINT MARINA FIREWORKS | Sponsored by sponsored by Mitchell’s Point Marina & RV Park. Fireworks are visible from the lake at channel marker C-3. 1-11 p.m. Free, though a $10 donation can be made to The Mission Continues, Navy-Marine Corp Relief Society, Semper Fi Fund, or Wounded Warrior Project. www. mitchellspoint.com

JULY 2

9 LAKE WRITERS PRESENT AUTHOR KATHLEEN GRISSOM | Lake writers celebrate the 50th anniversary of SML with a book talk, discussion and book signing with New York Times bestselling author of “The Kitchen House” Kathryn Grissom at the Westlake Library. Free. 4-6 p.m. THE SUBDUDES | Live music at Harvester Performance Center. $38. 8 p.m.

10 STRING OF PEARLS | Live music at Trinity Ecumenical Parish featuring New York-based nostalgia vocal trio “String of Pearls,” featuring lake resident Sue Halloran. $17, $25. 7 p.m. smithmountainartscouncil.com

MONETA FIRE-WORX FEST | Independence celebration with live music by The Worx, food, adult beverage garden, kids’ activities and fireworks at Downtown Moneta. Music runs 6 to 10 p.m., followed by fireworks. Admission is $5; parking is free. www.monetafire.com

JULY 2-4 FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION | Three days of family fun and programs throughout Smith Mountain Lake State Park. Activities include a campfire, catching crawdads in creek, making a unique souvenir to take home, creating art and making bubbles while enjoying our swimming beach. Some programs require preregistration and fees while most are free. 540-297-6066. http://1.usa. gov/1ML40jH

JULY 3 PARKWAY MARINA FIREWORKS | A family-oriented tradition at Parkway Marina in Huddleston featuring food vendors, beer garden, live music from The Worx, rides for the kids and displays of fire, rescue and military equipment. Gates open at 3 p.m. Fireworks launch at sunset. Admission is free, but a $10 per-car parking fee applies. www.smlfireworks.org The SML Water Safety Council has declared the primary viewing area a no-wake zone for the evening, so those who plan to go by boat are encouraged to consult a Laker Map for details on the boundary. On the water, boundaries will be indicated by boats with flashing yellow lights.

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OUT OF SPITE | Live music at Mango’s Bar & Grill. 7:30 p.m. BAREFOOT WEST | Live music at Sunken City Brewing Co.

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NATIONAL GET OUTDOORS DAY | Bike, hike, fish and picnic at Smith Mountain Lake State Park. 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Osprey hike-meet at Discovery Center 3-3:30 p.m. (540) 297-6066, dcr.virginia.gov/state_parks/smi.shtml ASPIRING ANGLERS TOURNAMENT | Friends of Smith Mountain Lake State Park sponsored tournament for boys and girls up to and including age 14 at Smith Mountain Lake State Park. Participants will compete in age groups for first, second, and third place trophies plus a “lunker” trophy for the largest fish of the tournament. Preregister from 8-8:45 a.m. (540) 297-6066, dcr.virginia.gov/state_ parks/smi.shtml WALK AND TALK | Carilion Clinic and Booker T. Washington National Monument in Hardy team up for a brief health-related talk followed by a social, 1.5 mile hike. 10 a.m. Free. Booker T. Washington National Monument, Hardy. (540) 721-2094, nps.gov/bowa

SMLCA 3RD ANNUAL FLY-IN | Event to benefit Smith Mountain Lake Christian Academy features a display of real planes and models, drones, flight simulator, plane rides, and food at SML Airport. Free, $30 donation to fly around the lake. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. smlca.org PAINTING DEMO | Ed Gowen at The Little Gallery, Bridgewater Plaza. 1-3 p.m. (540) 721-1596, thelittlegallerysml.com RUTLEDGE | Live music at Mango’s Bar & Grill. 7:30 p.m. PLACE CALLED HOME | Live music at Sunken City Brewing Co.

12 VA DARE SML 50TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY AND OPEN HOUSE | Tour the Virginia Dare Cruise Boat, visit vendors, live entertainment and more. (540) 2977100, vadarecruises.com JIMMY WILSON | Live music at Mango’s Bar & Grill. 2 p.m.

14 WINE DINNER | The Blackwater Cafe. 6:30 p.m. Reservations required. (540) 721-4333, blackwatercafe.com

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15 WILDLIFE CRUISE | Enjoy lunch aboard the Virginia Dare while a SML State Park interpreter discusses wildlife that call Smith Mountain Lake home. Reservations required. 12-2 p.m. (540) 297-7100, vadarecruises.com LYRICS ON THE LAKE SML SONGWRITERS FESTIVAL | JUNE 15-19 | Live music event featuring 50 singer/songwriters from Nashville, Tennessee, who perform at ten different locations around the lake to benefit Children’s Miracle Network. lyricsonthelake.com

17 ROBOTIC JIVE | Live music at Sunken City Brewing Co.

18 JUNETEENTH | Free celebration of the 151st anniversary of the emancipation of Booker T. Washington with gospel music, children’s activities and costumed interpretive guided tours. Booker T. Washington National Monument in Hardy. (540) 721-2094. nps.gov/ bowa

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ART SHOW | Greensboro artist and instructor Connie Logan’s new collection and demonstration at The Little Gallery, Bridgewater Plaza. 1-3 p.m. (540) 721-1596, thelittlegallerysml.com

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MINIATURE DISPLAY | 13th Annual World War II in Miniature display and Flag Day event at the National D-Day Memorial, Bedford. More than 100 models on display, special activities for children. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular fees apply. (540) 587-3617, dday.org DRAGONFLY | Live music at Mango’s Bar & Grill. 7:30 p.m. SCOTT JOSH WAY | Live music at Sunken City Brewing Co. MAD HOUSE | Live music at Ole School Sports Pub & Grill.

19 FATHER’S DAY LUNCHEON CRUISE | Father’s Day luncheon cruise aboard the Virginia Dare. All Dads receive $5 off. 2-4 p.m. Reservations required. (540) 297-7100, vadarecruises.com SML STEEL DRUM BAND, SML PARROT PAN AND TOUCAN PAN BAND FATHER’S DAY CONCERT | Live music. visitsmithmountainlake. com

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SML SONGWRITERS FESTIVAL | Live music at Mango’s Bar & Grill. 7:30 p.m.

22 GROWING UP IN WWII DAY CAMP | JUNE 22-24 | Day camp at the National D-Day Memorial where students will discover what life was like in the 1940s and experience life as D-Day soldiers, sailors and airmen. Open to fourth to sixth grade students. $60 for one child, $50 for each additional child. 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. (540) 587-3617, dday.org

23 “DOC” MCCABE MEMORIAL BLUEGRASS AT SEDALIA FESTIVAL | JUNE 23-25 | Live music at the Sedalia Center in Big Island. Admission rates and schedule varies. (434) 299-5080, sedaliacenter.org.

24 MARTY STUART & HIS FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES | Live music at Harvester. $44.50 & $57. 8 p.m. FUZZY LOGIC | Live music at Mango’s Bar & Grill. 7:30 p.m.

HAWAIIAN DINNER CRUISE | Aboard the Virginia Dare. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Reservations required. (540) 297-7100, vadarecruises.com

25 GREAT AMERICAN BACKYARD CAMPOUT | JUNE 25-26 | Special overnight camping event at Smith Mountain Lake State Park. Special programs are free, but regular camping fees apply. (540) 297-6066, dcr.virginia.gov/state_parks/smi. shtml SML STAND-UP PADDLE BOARD RACE | visitsmithmountainlake.com BARRY & GARY | Live music at Sunken City Brewing Co. MENDED FENCES | Live music at Ole School Sports Pub & Grill.

26 RAY MARTIN | Live music at Mango’s Bar & Grill. 7:30-11:30 p.m.

30 JERRY WIMMER TRIO | Live music at Ole School Sports Pub & Grill.

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In spite of colder than average temperatures, more than 70 runners and walkers participated in the inaugural Osprey 10K/5K at Smith Mountain Lake State Park in Huddleston. Laker Media was a sponsor of the event, which was held April 9. Photography by Ryan Tipps. 1. Dean and Jami Hyler of Huddleston 2. Amy Morrison and Andie Gibson, both of Franklin County 3. Tom Grindo of Bedford County and John Poliey of Lynchburg 4. Adrian Holmes (from left) of Lynchburg, Chelsea Ross of Lynchburg and Grace Mawyer of Nelson County

Class J 611 locomotive excursion The iconic Norfolk & Western Class J 611 steam engine, which was restored for a gallant homecoming to Roanoke last year, roared through the Smith Mountain Lake region the weekend of April 23 and 24. The coal-fired steam locomotive was conducting passenger excursions between Roanoke and Greensboro, North Carolina, passing through Goodview, Moneta and Huddleston.

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smith mountain lake Beer & BBQ Festival Barbecue, craft beer, music and a host of other goodies were available at the SML Beer & BBQ Festival May 7 in Downtown Moneta. Photography by Karen Dillon.

1. Cheryl Stump of Gladys and Cari Crabtree of Rustburg 2. Layla, 14, Chuck and Wendy Walker of Lynchburg 3. Hector (from left) and Jill Rodriguez, with Landon, 4, Christina and Blake Bell of Salem

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SMITH MOUNTAIN

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These have been the boom years of Smith Mountain Lake, as residential and commercial development laid the groundwork for the region as we know it today.

The effort that created Smith Mountain and Leesville lakes was a project like no other in the state, and it’s unlikely to ever happen again. The historic scope has had a lasting impact on Western Virginia and the counties of Bedford, Franklin and Pittsylvania.

(1991 to 2015)

This issue will explore, through stories and photos, the growth of residential and business life and tourism at the “Jewel of the Blue Ridge.”

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(2016 into the future)

This issue will showcase the vision of many who have helped keep the lake as a leader in development and growth.

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SML Aviation

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Southern Landscape Group

Absolute Collision of SML

125

Arrington Construction Atlantic Bay Mortgage Automatic Boat Covers Bartlett Tree Experts

109

Bayside Marina & Yacht Club

Better Sofas

Blinds & Beyond

Bobcat of Roanoke

111

MAP ID* E7

Southern Roots

117

Capps Home Building Center

Sunken City Brewing Company

Carilion Clinic

The Westlake

111

Centra

TopNotch Lawncare

125

12, 132

Turner’s Building

Craft Collision

Virginia Dare Cruises & Marina

119

E10

Crazy Horse Marina

119

Webster Marine Center

Designer Solutions

Westlake Wash

129

Dillon Docks Inc.

REAL ESTATE

Dollman Construction Inc.

16-17

Emerson Creek Pottery

F&S Building Innovations

Grand Home Furnishings Outlet

129

Groundscapes

Haywood’s Jewelers

132

Heath’s Waterfront Grill

121

E11

Jordan, Cameron & Angie SML Sales Inc.

Hickory Hill Vineyards & Winery

121

Homestead Creamery

125

Hughes Marine

Ideal Cabinets

109

Interiors by Kris

Kroger

Lakescapes Nursery

M.H. Eades, Inc.

Main Street Solar

121

Marshall Stone

Mexico Viejo

119

Mid-Atlantic Timberframes

Moneta Dentistry

127

Moneta Heating & Air

109

National Pools

Nationwide Insurance

111

Phil Hager Insurance

Pine Creek Structures

Centra Bedford Memorial Hospital

Dream Vacations — Kauffman Travel Team

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140

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McDaniel, Glenda Long & Foster REALTORS

42-44

McDonald, Mary Lou ML Realty

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Montgomery, Dana Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Smith Mountain Lake Real Estate

Rust, Genie Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Smith Mountain Lake Real Estate

127

Spring Cho Real Estate Group

The Carolyns — Carolyn Crabtree and Carolyn Pruett Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Smith Mountain Lake Real Estate

139

Wainwright Real Estate

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Johnson, Phyllis and Basham, Tim RE/MAX Lakefront Realty Inc.

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cooling down the brewskies. Place beer cans or bottles into a cooler, cover with ice, and add cold water until the beer is submerged. Add more ice on top and then here’s the magical part: sprinkle with enough salt to cover the top layer of ice. The beer will be chilled in about five minutes. Is this a great use of science or what?! That’s my jam, turn it up! You can’t hang out on the dock without your favorite playlist. However, you don’t need to schlep big speakers or a separate speaker plugin for your phone. Instead, place your phone or iPod in a ceramic mug — you will be amazed by how effectively your tunes will be amplified. Do you have a spare? There are certain items that one should never be without at a lake house. Take inventory and make sure, at a minimum, you always have these five items at the ready: 1. Margarita mix (having a sufficient supply of tequila is a given); 2. An inflatable float patch kit; 3. An extra propane tank for the grill (Murphy’s Law stipulates you will most definitely run out of gas in the middle of a cookout); 4. A box of Ghirardelli brownie mix (the best go-to mix on the market); 5. Toilet paper stashed everywhere. Wishing everyone a joyous SML summer. Kimberly Dalferes is the author of “I Was In Love With a Short Man Once” and “Magic Fishing Panties.” Her humor blog, “The Middle-Aged Cheap Seats,” is online at kimdalferes.com.

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