Yesteryears

THESE PICTURES WERE TAKEN IN 1910 SUPPOSEDLY TO PROVE THAT REELFOOT LAKE WASN'T A NAVIGABLE BODY OF WATER, WHICH AS YOU SEE IS NOT. THESE STUMPS ARE STILL THERE TODAY ,BUT ARE BELOW THE WATER.  FISHERMEN LOOK FOR THESE STUMPS TO FISH AROUND BECAUSE MOST ARE HOLLOW AND CRAPPIE , CATFISH & BASS BED UP INSIDE THEM. THEY QUIETLY TROLL UP TO THEM AND JIG AROUND THE STUMP. 

THIS PICTURE IS MY MOTHER (MARTHA PARKER) AND MY COUSIN CHARLES PARKER TAKEN IN 1948 AT SHORTY & MAMMIE HAINES BAR-B-OUE PLACE AT THE SPILLWAY. MAMMIE HAINES WAS MY FATHER'S (JOE PARKER) SISTER. 
IF YOU HAVE EVER BEEN TO REELFOOT LAKE YOU MAY REMEMBER MY MOTHER FROM HER DINING ROOM HISTORY. 
SHE OPERATED GOOCH'S DINING ROOM FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS. THEN IN 1973 SHE MOVED TO LAKEVIEW DINING ROOM AND WAS THERE UNTIL 1988 WHEN SHE DECIDED TO RETIRE . I THEN OPERATED LAKEVIEW DINING ROOM FOR 5 YEARS BEFORE BUYING BOYETTE'S RESORT.
 AT PRESENT TIME MY MOTHER IS FULL TIME BABYSITTER FOR MY YOUNGEST GRANDDAUGHTER.

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