Discover Smith Mountain Lake
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We’d love to hear from you!
It’s always great to hear from our readers. We enjoy receiving your comments,
suggestions, puzzle solutions, and any photos and articles that you care to submit
to us.
Please understand that it is not always possible to answer everyone, but we do read
everything that we get.
If you would like to submit a photograph or article for consideration, please observe
the following guidelines:
• We cannot return the items that you submit; please do not send originals
• For best quality, digital photos must be high resolution (300 dpi)
• Images taken from websites are generally of lower resolution and therefore
unusable
• Articles should be relevant to SML or the immediate area, including:
o History of the area
o Interesting personalities in the community
o Adventures, life experiences, etc. of people with strong ties to the lake
o SML clubs, organizations, churches
o Culture and the Arts at the lake
o Fiction and humor from local writers.
While we encourage everyone to submit anything of his or her choosing, we cannot
guarantee that we will use your submission(s). Anything that is used may appear in
any subsequent issue of the magazine. We discourage readers from submitting the
following types of content:
• News stories, political opinion and other topical pieces that “age” quickly.
• Book reviews, restaurant and theater reviews
• Event driven stories, although we may print a photo or two from time to time
• Articles designed to promote or advertise a specific business
Please send submissions to:
Discover SML Magazine
40 Village Springs Dr., Suite 25, Hardy, VA 24101
Or via e-mail to:
From Our Readers
Dear Tim,
I thoroughly enjoy every
page of each issue. I even
take a few extra to pass
out to family, friends, and
neighbors; I even put one
in the reception are of my
office. So you are read in
West Virginia, Ohio, and
North Carolina, as well as
local…
Keep up the superb work!!
Best Regards,
David Brown
(part-timer at the Lake –
for now. Plan to “retire”
here.)
Bridgeport, WV
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Good news!
Every issue of Discover SML is available online!
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Tim - the summer edition is outstanding. The articles are well written and edifying about life at SML.
Really enjoyed the Crawford piece. I’ve been a two cylinder John Deere fan since childhood and seeing
the Crawford collection is always a treat. All the best, Chuck
Chuck Hitzemann
Positive Growth International
Love her articles, very relatable subjects, in fact I was one of her subjects several years back. YOU have
the best magazine in the tri county area. keep up the great work.
Melanie
Friends, who live in Moneta, have sent me your Smith Mountain Lake Magazine. Your editorial
conveyed the impression that you live in a remote area and when I ask American visitors,
whether they know of Moneta or Roanoke, they usually give me a blank stare. Your area would
not be remote in Australia. Remote is where your young children have to drive an old car ten miles
from the homestead to the main road to catch a bus to school. In some remote areas Texans have
left Texas, because it is too small and have ranches, up to one million acres, in the outback.
Not that many Australians live there, we are too smart, and 82% of us live near the coast.
My home is close to 13 beaches. Once American tourists were over 70 year, but now the American young
have found us. They can finish University in June, do a term in an Australian University and then spend the
summer on our beaches as summer here is October to April. There is no culture shock as we speak English
and like Americans.
The history of Smith Mountain Lake has something similar in our country. After WW11 hundreds of
thousands of Europeans were trapped in Germany and did not want to return to their homes, which were
occupied by Russia. Australia needed more people, but where do you employ people who do not speak
English. The answer was the Snowy Mountain Scheme. They were sent to our alpine mountains where the
cold weather did not worry them and they could mix with their own country people whilst learning English.
They built many dams up high and where the water could generate electricity during peak periods and where
coal fired generators could pump the water back at night. Perhaps your engineers learnt something from us.
When next your advertisers ask about your circulation you can say we have readers 10,000 miles away.
Jim Carney
Merewether Heights NSW 2291
