Building a Cedar Cabin on the Lake

Growing up in the 1960s through the 1980 weekends and summers were spent at the lake. Nothing fancy like what we see today, but it was a cabin built by my dad and it was perfect.  From what I remember, they saw the design and floor plan in a magazine for Jim Walter Homes. The…

Summers by the Coosa River

Before I was born my parents built a home on the Coosa River in the central part of Alabama. A few years later the property became waterfront when Alabama Power Company completed building the Logan Martin Dam. After I was born we would spend summers and weekends at the lake. I loved playing in the…