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VACATIONS AND CAMPING

SHERANDO LAKE:

A summer never passed that we didn’t go camping, and we
always went into the Shenandoah Valley between the Skyline
Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia. A remote place
in the 1940’s. Built by the Conservation Corp, CCC’s. in the
1930’s. We first arrived at Sherando Lake in 1939 before I was
toddling.

Over the years lots of memories were made there. My earliest
was one I’ve been told about. There was a little inlet just to
the side of the main swimming beach. It was very shallow. In
it I was able to stay with my mother when she waded over her
knees. That was if I didn’t mind going under water. I liked
being with my mother, and was saved from drowning over and
over as I plunged into the depths of the knee deep water.

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