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	Name:	dogleg -
	Subject:	Lost our place
	Date:	12/18/2004 10:10:51 AM

A Zen master, when asked if he saw the glass as half full or half empty, replied, "I see the glass as already broken."
I too have many great memories of the lake and my childhood there. We were fortunate to have bought our place from Alabama Power at a time before the prices went throught the roof, ( we certainly couldn't afford it today), but even so I feel that all of us old time lake bums are losing something.
When we first began coming to Lake Martin in 1961, folks drank water from the lake, could see the bottom clearly in 20 feet of water, built little four and five room cabins that seemed to sleep about 12 adults and 30 kids. We had no television, phone, city water, or garbage pickup. We had the time of our lives and when we were at the lake, the world truly narrowed to surrounding shoreline.
While the sense of loss emplied by this may be attributed to nostalgia and whining over passed youth, I think not entirely. The gentrification of the lake has for some time been a growing threat, not only to us old-fart lake bums, but to many of the very people who are responsible for that gentrification. We have had many attractive offers for our place on the lake. They would of course, bulldoze the house and build one not vastly different from their five bedroom three and a half bath residence near Atlanta or Birmingham. They would remove a bunch of trees, put in a landscaped turf lawn ont he lakeside, hire a lawn service to tend it (thereby fertilizing the algie in the lake and making it even more murky) and lose the very heart and soul that attracted them to the lake to start with.
How's at fer a first time post?