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Glimpse of Yesterday (April 1984, front page photo.)

By Susan M. Thigpen © 1984

Issue: April, 1984

A glimpse of yesterday

(L) Garver and (R) Prentis Reynolds. This was about 1918 when mama trout did all the stocking and an alder pole and a Barlow knife were the necessary principle equipment. Prentis now lives in Martinsville, Virginia where he is 10 years retired from the presidency and ownership of a cardboard container corporation.