Compelling memories

We recently received a lovely email from a fellow who hadn't visited in a while.

Maybe "a while" is understating the situation a bit.

His email, which is posted over on the "What Our Guests Are Saying" page, mentions he remembers seeing the Willie Bartley Water Ski Show during his last visit.

So when did this water-ski show take place? A quick look on the park's Timeline reveals it's been quite a while.

Decades.

Scores, actually.

From 1959 to 1961, the Willie Bartley Water Ski Show was performed on Lake Rudolph. A much smaller version of Lake Rudolph, in fact.

Makes this photo all the more amazing.





When we were working on the pictorial history book earlier this year, co-author Jane Ammeson couldn't get enough of the ski show photos. We picked out the four most compelling pictures for the book. That was Jane's constant question, "What is the compelling reason for using this photo?"

Uh...because we like it?

Jane was very patient.

Here's another ski-show snapshot. This one depicts the "human kite":




Now that's compelling!