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Your News Source For Scottsville On The James
Is Open....page 6
George Goodwin
Town Administrator
No Stranger to
the Community
Page 4
Living in Scottsville
a wise move for Kerri Jones
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George Goodwin
the new Town
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Town Treasurer.
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In the Spotlight
Book signing set for Sept. 8
at Scottsville Museum
The Scottsville Museum presents another book signing in September. The program is scheduled for Sunday, September
8, at 2 p.m. at the museum in downtown
Scottsville across from Canal Basin
Square.
Alan Pell Crawford will speak about his
book “Twilight at Monticello: The Final
Years of Thomas Jefferson”, which was
released in January of 2008. From his web
site: “…beautifully written, evocative portrait of the ‘Sage of Monticello’ in his
retirement years.”
Based on new archival information and
drawing on correspondence of his children, grandchildren, other relatives and some of his neighbors, Crawford has researched many unexamined special collections from around the country. The book does not only tell about Jefferson’s
later years, but cover many aspects of his earlier life.
From The Washington Post’s review: “…a well-researched narrative of Thomas Jefferson’s postpresidential years…Crawford deserves credit for focusing on less trampled ground and for shedding
new light on Jefferson’s dysfunctional family life…”
Please come and meet the author, get an opportunity to purchase his book with the author’s personalized signature. Mark your calendars for Sunday, September 8 at 2p.m.
For more information please call museum president Evelyn Edson at 286-3466.
2 • SCOTTSVILLE MONTHLY • August 9–September 5, 2013
Calendar
Homecoming Service
Centenary United Methodist Church will celebrate homecoming Sunday, September 1, at 11 am, with Reverend
Buster Payne delivering the message. Steve Minter will bless
us with special music during the service. A covered dish luncheon immediately follows in the church fellowship hall.
The Rev. Brant Hays and the Centenary church family invite
everyone to share with them in the joy and fellowship of
homecoming. Centenary UMC is located on Route 20 at
12247 S. Constitution Route. For more information, call
(434) 286-3379.
ThistleGate art exhibit
The Winery at ThistleGate Vineyard is exhibiting the work
of local artists Lorna Tornebene and her daughter, Susan Lang
for the month of August with a reception Sunday, Aug 11, 25. The winery has tastings Fri, Sat and Sun afternoons.
ThistleGate Vineyard is 6 mi east of Scottsville on Rt 6. The
artist featured at ThistleGate in September will be Leah
Olivier.
Tavern on the James
The Tavern on the James in Scottsville exhibits art in the
downstairs and upstairs dining areas as well as the banquet
room. Virginia artists featured are Lindsay Nolting, Jeannine
Barton Regan, Sunny Lenz, Linda Verdery, Martha Louis, and
Bill Connell.
In the Spotlight
A Great Day: Three Scottsville Churches
Share in a Pulpit Exchange
By Gordon
Gordon Lindsey
Lindsey
By
Contributor
Contributor
Three congregations gathered at the picnic. All photos by Harvey Sorum.
C
hristian congregations
often sing these lyrics
from the beloved
hymn:
CONSIGNMENTS
Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love…
But does the ‘tie that binds’
extend beyond an individual
congregation?
Well, three Scottsville churches—
Scottsville
Baptist,
Scottsville
Presbyterian, and Scottsville United
Methodist--responded with a resounding ‘yes’ on Sunday, July 14. The three
churches sponsored a special pulpit
rotation that Sunday where their three
pastors switched pulpits with the other
two.
The Rev. Katie McKown, pastor of
Scottsville Baptist, led the service at
Scottsville Presbyterian. The Rev.
Gordon Lindsey, pastor of Scottsville
Presbyterian, preached at Scottsville
United Methodist. And the Rev. Bruce
Lugn, pastor of Scottsville United
Methodist, filled the pulpit at Scottsville
Baptist.
All three pastors preached on the
same Bible text: Jesus’ parable of the
Good Samaritan. They gave the three
congregations three takes on this
gospel story on how we are called to be
good neighbors to one another.
The pulpit exchange is a first for
Scottsville, the three pastors believe.
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town tradition. The town’s churches
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The Rev. Gordon Lindsey, pastor of Scottsville Presbyterian, the Rev. Katie
McKown, pastor of Scottsville Baptist, and the Rev. Bruce Lugn, pastor of
Scottsville United Methodist.
have joined forces for shared Ash
Wednesday services, a mid-week
evening prayer service during Lent,
Easter sunrise services, Thanksgiving
Day observances, and last year’s first
ever Christmas Parade. They have also
shared in mission through the Bread of
Life ministry and the mobile food
pantry.
"It was a wonderful day to celebrate
our congregations' strength of ecumenism,” says McKown. “We shared
Old Farm Day
worship, food and traditions. What
could be better?"
Following the simultaneous services,
all three congregations gathered for a
fried-chicken and potluck picnic in
Dorrier Park. Just before the banquet
began, all three congregations joined
once more for a group photo to
remember the occasion. It was indeed a
great day to celebrate.
August 9–September 5, 2013 • SCOTTSVILLE MONTHLY • 3
Cover Story
Got a Problem? Call George
By Ron Smith
Contributor
I
t could have been a sign of
the times. The available
workforce far exceeded the
number of jobs available.
But when the position of Town
Administrator for the Town of
Scottsville became available more
than fifty applications were received.
Of course some applicants were
more qualified than others. In an
effort to reduce the list of those seeking the position, Mayor Barry Grove
appointed a committee to review the
applications received and come up
with a group of ten to twelve “qualified” position seekers.
The finalists were selected and
invited to appear before members of
the town Council so that each could
be interviewed as to qualifications,
experience and willingness to relocate to Scottsville. After considerable
debate amongst the selection committee, a choice was made.
Scottsville native son George
Goodwin was selected to fill the position of Town Administrator/Town
Treasurer.
George was born in Albemarle County. He
attended Scottsville Elementary School in its old
location.
He graduated from the former
Frederick Military Academy in Portsmouth,
Virginia. His college education consists of a
George Goodwin was selected to fill the position of Town Administrator/Town Treasurer. Photo by Ron Smith.
double major in Business Administration and
Economics which he earned at Emory and
Back in Scottsville and looking for something to occupy his time, George saw
Henry College in southwest Virginia.
a
need
and volunteered his time and talents by serving on the Enhancement Projects
After graduation George went to work for the F. W. Woolworth Company in
Oversight
Committee. The Farmers Market Pavilion was in the planning stages and
management. However, to George there was a need for greater challenges so he
future
projects
included restrooms adjacent to the market facility.
moved to Franklin, Pa. where he became involved with the automobile industry as
George,
with
his knowledge, experience and talent for negotiations worked on
a buyer for a company that manufactured automobile parts and accessories.
procurement
of
materials
while Mayor Grove, with his legal training and background
As with a number of individuals, with more experience came more opportunioversaw
that
end
of
construction
matters. When the vacancy came about in the
ties. He moved to the Marine Development Corporation, a company that was
town
administration,
George
was
encouraged
to put his hat in the ring and endeavinstrumental in refrigeration systems on shrimp boats. With Marine Development,
or
to
get
the
position.
he was offered the opportunity to work not only with the World Bank, but also with
As Town Manager he saw to the completion of Streetscape II. That project
the U.S. Department of Commerce. He found himself attending trade missions and
came
in on schedule and under budget. George’s talent for negotiating saved the
working with third world countries on a number of subjects including contract negotown
a
lot of money. Daily he can be seen checking on various aspects of town
tiations.
happenings
whether it be to ensure a merchant has the proper licenses or help
A shift in thinking brought George back to Scottsville. The Scottsville Feed and
prospective
business
owners learn just what might be expected
Seed Company, a remnant of the old Scottsville Flour Mill, was looking for investors
Goodof
them
should
they relocate to Scottsville.
in order to continue their long association with the community so George returned
It
should
be
evident
that while several of the individuals who were on the “short
home to invest in feed and seed.
list”
of
candidates
for
town
administrator had experience, George had and still has
As hindsight is better than foresight, this move proved less profitable than antica
love
for
the
town
in
which
he grew up. He grew up in the Episcopal Church. He
ipated, so George found himself in need of employment that would provide income
delivered
papers,
namely
the
Scottsville Sun and The Daily Progress when it was an
on a regular basis. This came about with the firm MJ Systems.
afternoon
paper.
As
George
says, he “had a lot of fun growing up in Scottsville.
MJ Systems which evolved into Mobile Computing monitored impulse sales of
Married
to
Pam
for
over
twenty five years and the father of two sons and a
magazines at supermarket and other business check outs all across America. In fact,
daughter
and
grandfather
to
three,
George doesn’t regret returning to the town he
the company monitored over 97% of the check outs in the country. George did a
loves.
In
the
little
over
a
year
he
has
been on the job, the town has seen many poslot of traveling for MD Systems which included both national and international sales.
itive
changes.
It
makes
a
big
difference
when you love the job you are doing and
Unfortunately, after twenty years of loyal service, MJ was bought out by another
you
are
doing
it
for
the
people
you
love.
firm and George was “retired” as the new company reorganized.
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Making News
Warren Village Train Derailment
By Marianne Ramsden
Correspondent
Upside down and overturned coal cars from the derailment on July 18. All photos by Marianne Ramsden.
o
n the afternoon of Thursday, July 18, there came a clatter and clamor
from the railroad crossing down the road from our house on Warren
Ferry Road. One of the ubiquitous coal trains that fly through had
derailed. Twenty-four cars were involved, 12 of which were totally overturned,
spilling their loads all over the area. Coal is piled in huge mounds on the south side
of the tracks. The two people on board were not hurt. But it sure created a mess
difficult to clean up and the crossing was closed for many days. Derailments have
happened before at this particular crossing, but not for many, many years.
We lived in an old house right across the tracks for seven years before the 1985
“Election Day Flood” when we decided to get out of that particular house. The
house was sold, and occupied by a family for several years until another flood
changed their minds and they moved out. The house later burned and all that is left
is an overgrown foundation and three falling-down sheds.
Having the railroad tracks only a few feet away from the front of the house didn’t
bother us as much as when the long, long coal train would inexplicably stop and
block the crossing sometimes for hours. Several times, while entertaining company,
the train would stop, preventing people from leaving the party. It made for some
frustrating and tiring entertaining far longer than expected. The kids would miss the
school bus once in a while due to a stopped train and the same thing could happen
in the afternoons. They were, of course, forbidden to crawl under the train since it
could start moving without notice. Sometimes in the 1950s when the house held a
post office and general store, trains stopped at the Warren depot (long gone) several times each day bringing the mail, dropping off passengers, loading merchandise
and sometimes a car would be shunted to a siding and loaded with pulpwood or
crossties. Once during the evening a coal train did derail and filled the store with
mountains of coal.
The CSX crews have been busy clearing the area of the overturned cars, broken
crossties, completely ruined wheels and other metal debris. The road might be
closed again off and on as the huge machinery moves back and forth.
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Business
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and Spa
By Marianne Ramsden
Correspondent
he salon on the corner of
Valley and Bird streets has
been open just over six
months and Audrey Wells,
owner, operator, and master stylist at
“Cutting Loose” said: “So far business
is going very well.”
This was evident the Saturday afternoon I visited. She was busy with one
haircut and one coloring procedure and
someone was using the tanning bed. “It
has always been my dream to open my
own beauty shop,” she said. For many
years she worked as a home health
provider in the Charlottesville area until
she decided it was time to change profession and enrolled in the Staunton
School of Cosmetology. When a suitable location became available in
Scottsville, Wells decided to take the
plunge and realize her dream.
While wearing plastic gloves she was
slathering a coloring compound on to
the hair of Lisa Coiner. Aluminum foil
covered certain areas and Coiner won-
T
Hairdresser Audrey Wells and customer Lisa Coiner.
All photos by Marianne Ramsden.
6 • SCOTTSVILLE MONTHLY • August 9–September 5, 2013
dered what it would look like after she
was all done. “Dark on the top and
lighter below,” said Wells. She, herself,
had a reverse coloration: light on top
and darker below. Waiting on the comfortable sofa in front of a coffee table
strewn with magazines in neat rows,
was Coiner’s daughter who had just gotten a very flattering haircut. Coiner and
her daughter drove 60 miles from
Goochland to visit the new hair salon in
Scottsville. “Yes, people come from all
over,” Coiner said.
This is truly a full-service salon with
haircuts for women, men and children
topping the list of available services. “I
love cutting kids’ hair, but there can
sometimes be a conflict of opinion
between parent and child,” she said.
Usually, the parent in question either
wins outright or a slight compromise is
reached. “It can also be tricky to keep
the kids seated and not squirming
See Salon Page 7
Salon from page 6
The new salon and spa has a tanning bed.
Outside the salon at 4310 Valley Street.
around. After all, I have some sharp
scissors in my hand.” Wells offers a
choice of 24 procedures including updo’s, bridal and evening styling, organic, spiral or specialty perms, manicure
and pedicure, nail art, coloring of all
kinds: new color, retouch, foil, cap and
relaxers.
When asked what the spa designation
involved she said: “Tanning, and spray
tanning and massage.” She contracts
out these services and so far the massage is by appointment only and the
patrons may choose how long of a massage they want. Part of the amenities
includes a coffee cart with fresh coffee
and pretty much anything you want to
add to it.
I never did see the end result of
Coiner’s beauty treatment since it was a
fairly lengthy procedure. Wells had
another appointment within the hour
before closing time at 4 p.m.
“Cutting Loose Salon and Spa” is
located at 410 Valley Street directly
across from Victory Hall. The opening
hours are: Tuesday-Friday 9 a.m. to 7
p.m. Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed
on Mondays. Although walk-ins are
welcome appointments can be made by
calling 434-286-3837.
•••
Correction:
Richard Singleton took the photos
illustrating
the
article
titled
Shakespeare in Scottsville, The
Taming of the Shrew in the July
issue of the Scottsville Monthly.
Hairdresser Audrey Wells at work.
August 9–September 5, 2013 • SCOTTSVILLE MONTHLY • 7
History
Where the golf course use to be. Photo by Ruth Klippstein.
Memories of Golf, the Rubber Plant and days gone by
By Ruth Klippstein
Correspondent
“I
t was wonderful to have these opportunities in a little town. We could
play golf or tennis with no questions asked,” recalls Pat Pitts, one of
the young men who learned to love golf by watching older men play
at the Uniroyal plant in the 1950s and early ‘60s. “I never had a lesson in my life. We’d watch the employees play, and scout the creeks to find golf
balls. It was great fun.”
The coming of the rubber plant to Scottsville is a success story often told; Mayor
Raymon Thacker, who was instrumental in identifying the property for the U.S.
Defense Corporation and encouraging owner Dr. R. L. Stinson to sell it, has recorded his memories of the plant on the Scottsville Museum website. Virginia Moore,
in “Scottsville on the James,” calls it “a major event.” The cornerstone was laid in
May, 1944, with a town barbeque; the $2,240,000 building “went up fast.” In
8 • SCOTTSVILLE MONTHLY • August 9–September 5, 2013
November, 1945, U.S. Rubber, which had been running the operation, bought the
plant—its forty-third—from the government for $1,837,500.
Donald Carroll was the first manager. Through the 1950s and ‘60s, Don and the
company were proud of the employees’ “outstanding production record during the
War…their craftsmanship and teamwork,” and the “most modern textile plant in the
U.S., bringing greater progress and more people to Scottsville.” (advertisement in
“Sun-Press,” Scottsville, 1964)
Writing in 1951, George T. Starnes, “The Labor Force of Two Rural Industrial
Plants,” noted that after the strong development of manufacturing during the war,
“of outstanding significance in Virginia’s transition to peace have been the generally good industrial relations that have prevailed in the State during the period of
reconversion. The condition of harmony has been in marked contrast to the labor
Looking north of the driveway, where last hole was. Photo by Ruth Klippstein.
turmoil and strife in many other parts of
the country.”
Besides the modern production room
inside the plant, development on the 51
acres site eventually included a fishing
pond, a tennis court, croquet lawn, and
a four-hole golf course. As amateur
photography was new and seemed
expensive, no pictures have surfaced of
the gold course, and we rely on the
memories of those who played there.
Bill Mason recalls it fondly. He left
Scottsville for a period in 1956, so he
knows he played on the plant grounds
before that. “Anyone could play,” he
says, and many did. He states that players started in front of the plant, went
east, parallel to the river and the spur
railroad serving the plant on the south
side of the driveway, and then crossed
the road for one more hole. “There
wasn’t enough room for more than that.
You looped around to play, and overlapped and criss-crossed” for nine holes.
He believes the course, which extended
to the rear of the cannery, the block
building now used as storage by the
apartments, was about 25 acres. “The
greens weren’t real fancy,” Bill notes.
They were sand, Pat Pitts says, possibly
oiled to keep dust down. Jack Hamner,
another young player, says “The
‘greens’ were simply round areas of sand
with a hole and a flagstick. They were
designed and built by Russell Brill, I
believe [a local landscaper known, Pat
Pitts says, for having the equipment to
move boxwood and small trees]. These
‘greens’ were very susceptible to the elements—every time there was a hard
shower, gullies appeared in the sand,
and had to be raked smooth. Also,
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Golf from Page 9
before putting, the ‘greens’ had to be
smoothed of footprints, debris, etc with a
burlap ‘sweep’ attached to a long pole.”
Dave Catlett remembers dragging the
greens for the next players; Pat Pitts
recalls a long 2 ½ inch pipe with a smaller T welded on the end to smooth the
sand.
Pat provides us a map of his memory
of the four holes. He shows the first tee
box on what he calls the plateau where
employees parked. He recalls that a
creek ran alongside the holes on the
south—now marked by a thick band of
trees and greenery, and players had to
twice cross a small creek perpendicular to
that. This was part of the spring, now
blocked, remembered to have been near
the single hole on the north side. Several
players remember getting drinks of water
there, even after the plant posted it as
“unfit.”
These holes were maintained with regular mowing no different from the rest of
the grounds. Jack Hamner remembers
that George Wheeler, a “delightful jackof-all-trades,” was employed by the plant
for maintenance, but is not positive he is
Fairview, now 'High Meadows'; ca. 1904. Photographer: Unknown. The Katherine Ellis Collection, Scottsville Museum.
the one who kept the golf course mowed.
Bill Mason recalls that Steve Wharam’s
could always find balls and we were young—we had all day. Bill Mason also says
grandfather Walter, “a legend, a real character,” worked on the grounds and
Dave Catlett was the best of the young players. Dave denies it. He does rememgroomed the greens. Steve contributed the name of Johnny Wales, a “super-nice
ber that the course boasted ball washing stations. He lived in the house west of the
man” who used to work on the grounds. Steve and his sister Virginia Higgins recall
current library, so could quickly walk to the course—“it was my front yard!” He says
their grandfather, as well as their mother, working at the plant. “We talk all the time
he’d play three times a week. “Barney Philpot was the best, I’d say.”
about the way it was.
Dave adds that the nineteenth hole, the last stop of most games for the older
It seems likely the U.S. Rubber Company, that produced the “Sensational New
players, was Lee’s Restaurant on Valley Street, where upstairs they’d get beer.
Spun-Latex” golf ball in 1935, developed the golf course for employees; some peoBill and Jack were both left-handed. “There were very few left-handed clubs back
ple have suggested it must have been put in for upper management. Golf was still
in those days,” Bill says, and he learned right-handed. His original set of clubs was
new to the American public just after the war. Though the first public golf course
J.C. Higgins he thinks he bought for $24.95: “a bag, three balls, a putter, a wood,
in the United States, in northern New York City, was established in 1896, the develand three irons.” Jack says he never felt comfortable playing right-handed and
opment of golf equipment—as well as of leisure time and the surge of post-war disswitched when he could afford new clubs. His rubber plant foursome often includcretionary income, creating the new concept of “life-style,” helped popularize the
ed Pat and Billy Pitts, Walter Townsend, or Kenneth Quick, “and anyone else who
game. Clubs were standardized in the 1920s and ‘30s, losing colorful names like
happened to show up!”
“mashie” and “niblick” to numbers; the golf ball, originally of wood and then gutta
Walter Townsend recalls that “it was nice. We used to love going around to pracpercha, became a core of rubber wrapped in rubber. The “Encyclopedia Britannica”
tice playing. It was like a park, and a very cute layout for a course.” Most people
says this “was easier to hit and gave its strikers a greater sense of power. Older men
learned to interrupt play when the four p.m. shift let out and cars streamed down
found it easier to play, and hosts of women and children were drawn into the game.”
the drive. But Walter’s first car, a Pontiac, had its grill broken by a duffer hitting low
In the 1950s, Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Jimmy Demaret, and Babe
across the road.
Didrikson Zaharias were champions on the new, longer golf courses; professional
Bill Mason remembers, besides golf at the plant, roller skating on the sidewalks
golfers dominated amateurs in tournaments; and the game finally came to television,
under the floodlight. Mr. Luckado, night watchman, would let kids inside for a drink
finding in Arnold Palmer the “perfect star for the new age….”
of water. “Everyone learned to ride a bicycle there.” Pat Pitts says, as well as fish
Amanda Hall thought it possible her husband Conrad, plant manager in the
in the pond. George Goodwin, with his friend Alan Philpot, would wait for Alan’s
1970s, developed the golf course for his own pleasure. But it is more likely that
father to play—he was always smoking a pipe on the course—while learning to
since the course was in operation during the ‘50s, it had become unused and
throw a Frisbee. Their dogs accompanied them, Happy and Lemon. George
Conrad refurbished it after 1972, when he became manager. “I’ve got to get those
learned to play tennis at the court there. “The plant was always a good corporate
four holes back,” Amanda remembers him saying; he played often after work or
citizen that took care of the community,” he notes now.
after dinner.
The plant, Walter Townsend says, “was a respected place to work, and a big loss
Robert Lloyd, a later plant manager, first came to Uniroyal in 1968, and “vaguewhen it closed.” Employing up to 340 people at its peak in the late 1960s, it shut
ly remembers” the golf course. He does recall that Conrad Hall “was a golf nut” and
at Christmas-time, 2009, putting 106 people out of jobs. While the Scottsville ordiprobably “the driving force” behind the course after the damages of Hurricane
nances allow for the development of a golf course “in the floodway district” if all
Camille in 1969 and Agnes in 1972.
environmental and other regulations (including four parking places per hole plus one
Bill Mason lists “some of the really great golfers of the time” as Dave Philpot and
per golf course employee) are observed, there are no current plans for such develDanny, brothers who worked at the plant; in 1952 Dave was Scottsville High School
opment. George Goodwin, town administrator, reports that a town dog park has
P.T.A. president as well. There was also G.C. Golladay, an Appalachian Power
been proposed to Dr. Hurt, current owner of the plant. Meanwhile, Scottsville’s golf
Company maintenance worker; Willie Marshall; Ed Turner; Herb Craft. He says
teaching professional Richard Singleton will give group or private lesson, arrange
Mayor Thacker’s son Arthur played, and young Maynard Spencer. Pat Pitts adds
special clinics, make a digital movie of your swing, or play a round with you; he had
the name of Kent Carter, stepson of Scottsville’s druggist Tom Bruce, and Red
a practice range at his West River Road home and is golf pro at Farmville Municipal
Rittenhouse. Marie Lane tells of her brother, Donald Combs, loving golf, and later
Course. Fore!
learning tennis at the plant. He always emphasized how much fun he had there with
his friends. Don Combs and Dave Catlett were both on the 1952 Scottsville High
[Thanks to Bill Mason for getting this topic going and adding so much; to Jack
School baseball team; the school did not utilize the golf course.
Hamner, Pat Pitts, Steve Wharam and Virginia Higgins, Walter Townsend, Dave
The teens would stand back to watch if older men were on the course; sometimes
Catlett, Bob Lloyd, Amanda Hall, and George Goodwin. If I missed you and
they would caddy for 50 cents. “We’d take a sickle down along the ditches. You
you have a story, write to me at rklippst@jmrl.org]
10 • SCOTTSVILLE MONTHLY • August 9–September 5, 2013
Adventure
To Catch a Trout
By Dan Gritsko
Contributor
It was 6:36am on June 29th and I was standing on the banks of a small mountain stream. I threw my line again in the direction of the head of a small riffle in
hopes of letting the current put my bait in just the right place. I made a short cast
and the worm hit the water right where I wanted it and started to sink and flow
downstream. It wasn’t in the water very long until I had a bite. I gave a quick yank
to set the hook, and I had a fish on the line.
It darted from one side of the small hole to the other and in only a few moments
I was able to bring it to shore. When it was on the bank and I could identify it, it
became evident that I had just landed a rainbow trout. When that became clear to
me, I almost cried. The fish in itself was not a trophy, or even very large, but you
must understand the source of my emotion. To do so, let me take you back to at
least 35 years ago.
March of 1978 was likely the last Easter break that I trout fished with my grandfather. For a handful of Easter breaks in my childhood, I had the pleasure of spending time with him and my grandmother in Bedford, Pa. I experienced many wonderful mornings in various trout streams with my grandfather and then those many
peanut butter, jelly, and butter sandwiches made by my grandmother. (Yes, she put
butter on the bread before putting on the peanut butter) It was a staple for me after
a morning of trout fishing with my grandfather. My visits those Easter breaks with
‘granddaddy’ and ‘grammy’ are some of my fondest memories of childhood.
Two years later our family moved to Virginia, and some time the next spring I
decided to head out to a trout stream with a couple of my teenage buddies. The one
and a half hour drive, and our attempts to fish in a very crowed trout stream on
opening day was a bit of a turn off to me. On the ride home I remember deciding
that trout fishing in Virginia wasn’t quite the same experience that I had with my
grandfather.
Flip forward now many years. While I have had a few short attempts at trout fishing over the years, this past spring I had a re-awakening of a long lost love of trout
fishing, especially the days of trout fishing with my grandfather. It likely started
because of my work on the Scottsville Town Council. I had been looking at ways to
expand interest in our area when I again read about the Hardware River Wildlife
Management Area and its delayed trout harvest program. While I had read about
the program years previously, I came to the conclusion that I had to learn more.
So in early June my son John (12) and I took a ride over to check things out. I
feel I must clarify that I had been to the area several times in the past, but never
with the idea of trout fishing. So my first trip to explore the trout fishing opportunities at the HRWMA ended up with us seeing one of the entrances to the area (it
has 4) and feeling like we had definitely not found what we were looking for. After
getting home, I looked at the map on our computer and realized what I should do
on my next trip. The following evening I asked my wife to come with me for a ride,
and sure enough on trip #2, we located what I will call entrance #2. Feeling like I
had found the lost city of Atlantis, I could not wait until my chance to hike the trail
and to get in some trout fishing.
The following afternoon, John readied our tackle, caught some worms, and I tried
to prepare for the over 1 mile or so hike, or so I guessed, to get to the river. So
after work, John, and my wife, joined me on my next expedition - that is trip #3.
It was going ok for the first half mile as I chopped some high grass, that was until
we started to encounter grass that was waist to chest high. Somewhere about one
mile in we ended up getting to a point that we just could not figure which way the
trail went and it was also getting late. So with poles, tackle, and no stream in sight,
we turned around. After this I heard my wife describing to a friend that joining us
on this hike was a ‘labor of love’ and her survival of the ordeal, in my words, probably was on par with what Sacajawea had to endure on her own adventures with
Lewis and Clark.
I must admit I was now becoming concerned that I just wasn’t going to find an
easy way into this place. My next stop a couple of days later was Colemans, the
local bait and tackle store in Scottsville to see if they knew how to get into this
apparently trout forsaken place. Sure enough, they did. I was given directions, and
with a hand drawn map, and I was off.
I made this trip, trip #4 alone to see if I could identify what I will term entrance
#3. I followed the directions closely and still made a couple of wrong terms. After
about a 1 mile foray down someone’s drive way even into their woods, I tried one
last time and I, to my great surprise ended up at the right place. I was thrilled! But
I didn’t have time to make the hike in that day.
See Trout Page 14
Dan Gritsko with his rainbow trout.
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August 9–September 5, 2013 • SCOTTSVILLE MONTHLY • 11
People
Northern transplant thrives in Scottsville
By Sarah Rachelle Haines
Correspondent
has joined the army infantry and proudly serves his country in Fort Stewart.
Jones’ step-daughter is a recent
University of Virginia graduate and is
considering law school. Kerri’s younger
three children were born and raised in
this area and though they weren’t raised
in New York like their mother Kerri,
they do visit up north when they can.
As if five children weren’t enough to
keep this New York transplant busy,
Jones has worked as a controller in
Charlottesville for 13 years and is also
finishing up her MBA from Averett
University! But it doesn’t end there.
Jones has embarked on another new
adventure: she has opened up a used
clothing store in Dillwyn in Buckingham
County called BellaDaisy. The store is
sandwiched between the Hair Corral
and Pino’s on Route 15. With the help
of her sister Kasey and her advertising
skills, Kerri opened up BellaDaisy on
June 15 and so far so good. Kerri wanted a place where Buckingham and
Scottsville residents alike could go for
last minute clothing items without having to make the long trek to either
Richmond or Charlottesville. At the
moment Jones has gently used, name
brand clothing in girl sizes beginning at
12 all the way up to women’s.
BellaDaisy also offers a plethora of
accessories from belts and jewelry, to
shoes and handbags. And more shoes.
Jones laughs and says that it’s not like
New York, but that she hopes to bring
another clothing option to the area. In
the future Jones also hopes to begin
clothing consignment, but for now she
is just thrilled the store is open. And
while she says that between her family,
job, and graduate work, she is tired,
opening up a clothing store has been a
dream of hers for awhile.
Clearly the move to the Scottsville are
has been a great one. Jones loves her
life here and is looking forward to what
the future has in store for her and her
family.
S
cottsville isn’t necessarily considered a
destination location
for anyone not living
in Central Virginia. If
you live in this area, you can appreciate its beauty and its peacefulness and
country setting. Sure it has lots of historic attractions to see, and the James
River prompts various trips from outsiders throughout the warmer summer
months, but it’s typically not on anyone’s I-must-visit-this-place-before-mylife-is-over list.
So it was a shock to Kerri Jones and
her husband when they visited
Scottsville close to two decades ago
from their hometown of upstate New
York. Jones had friends down here and
wanted to visit. She found herself lov-
As if five children weren’t
enough to keep this New York
transplant busy, Jones has
worked as a controller in
Charlottesville for 13 years and
is also finishing up her MBA
from Averett University! But it
doesn’t end there. Jones has
embarked on another new
adventure: she has opened up
a used clothing store in Dillwyn
in Buckingham County called
BellaDaisy.
ing this area and somewhere between
the Scottsville visit and the trip back
home, Jones and her first husband
decided they would like to relocate to
this area.
Kerri Jones has now called Scottsville
her home for fifteen years and even
managed to convince her sister, Kasey
Moscato, and their parents to move to
the area too!
Jones, who is now remarried, and
her husband have three children together and Jones has two older step-children. One of whom, Timothy Jones,
For more information on BellaDaisy
call (434) 983-1553 or email them at
belladaisyexchange@gmail.com.
Kerri Jones owner of Bella Daisy. Photo by Sarah Rachelle Haines.
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Trout from Page 11
Trip number 5 was with my friend Philip. We went to entrance #3 and hiked in
the rain the ¾’s of a mile in and we made it to the Hardware River!!!! I could not
have been happier. Even the fact that the river was actually quite dangerous because
of high water as it was more probably about 10 feet higher than normal, didn’t
dampen my enthusiasm. We had found it. But I did wonder if the trout would get
washed away with the deluge.
I waited now for a chance to go and fish but over the next 10 days or so the rains
kept coming and the river stayed high and muddy.
But another chance to fish for trout loomed on the horizon, and I could not wait.
We as a family spent a night in the Blue Ridge Mountains and had a chance to fish
in a pond nearby that had trout it. While we did catch four nice crappie, we did not
interest any trout.
On the way home my wife wanted to check out a camping area not far away, and
I reluctantly agreed to take a look. Not far away, guess what we saw, a really nice
looking trout stream. So after checking out the potential camping area, John and I
looked into the stream and we could see several trout right there. I was SO EXCITED! I went to get our poles and then remembered that we had packed them up in
my daughter’s vehicle. I could not believe it. How could we be so close, even seeing the trout, but yet so far. But alas it was not to be.
But thankfully the story does not end here. One week later, I had the chance to
come back to that same stream and to make my way to a nice looking spot.
It was 6:36am on June 29th and I was standing on the banks of a small mountain stream. I threw my line again in the direction of the head of a small riffle in
hopes of letting the current put my bait in the right place. I made a short cast and
the worm hit the water and started to sink and flow downstream. It wasn’t in the
water very long until I had a bite. I gave a quick yank to set the hook, and I had a
fish on the line.
The fish darted from one side of the small hole to the other and in what was only
a few moments, I was able to bring it to shore. That rainbow trout now in hand,
reminded me of those wonderful days with my grandfather, now so many years ago.
I even remembered that the knowledge I had to fish a spot like that was something
that he had taught me.
Having rediscovered this lost joy in my life, I don’t think it will be too long until I
make it back out to another mountain stream or into the Hardware River Wildlife
Management Area.
I have some new memories to make and a child or two to take with me in hopes
of passing this special pleasure on to several succeeding generations.
Scenes from Scottsville Farmers Market
All photos by Lynn Staton-Eurell
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BUYER OR RENTAL INVESTMENT. $119,900. CALL A.
SCOTT WARD, JR 434-286-2022 OR CELL 9813343., MLS # 511420.
NICE MANUFACTURE DOUBLEWIDE HOME IN NELSON COUNTY. SET ON A QUIET COUNTRY ROAD,
CLOSE TO THE JAMES AND ROCKFISH RIVERS. THIS
HOME IN DECENT CONDITION, BUT NEEDS SOME
TLC. $ 52,470. CALL A. SCOTT/WARD, JR., 434286-2022 OR 4-981-3343, MLS # 511533.
• BUCKINGHAM/SCOTTSVILLE----9.86 ACRES $40,000.
• ALBEMARLE/SCOTTSVILLE----2.01 ACRES $35,000.
OLDEST LOCALLY OWNED
SCOTT & FRANKIE WARD,
BROKERS/OWNER
16 • SCOTTSVILLE MONTHLY • August 9–September 5, 2013
REAL ESTATE AGENCY
A. SCOTT WARD, JR,
REALTOR,
JUNE WARD SEAY,
ASSOC. BROKER