A little about the Lake!

This post is a little late, but here it is. I spoke to Mary Vahlkamp this past weekend again, and she was telling me that when someone purchased land here they actually purchases stock certificates in Lake Ronnie Incorporated. She gave me a couple of old certificates to use for my ethnography project in my English 102 class. I also found out from Mary a little bit about how the older lake members use to stock the lake. To the left of the South Ronnie Drive damn are two small lakes that are sort of dried up. I always thought they were overflow lakes when the lake got too full. According to Mary, those two small lakes were used by the old members for raising their own fish for the lake. She did not know the whole story, but the old members would raise their own fish to put in the lake, instead of paying someone else to stock it. We don't do that here anymore because it requires a lot of time and effort and no one has the time to do it. I thought this was really neat, because it kinda gives you an idea of what the original owners were like. I am still trying to find out when the lake was founded and by whom. The oldest records I have been able to find so far are from 1952, but Mary heard it was founded in the 1940's...I am still investigating this. I hope to find a lot more interesting things about Lake Ronnie Inc.