Name:	39KC -	Reply
Subject:	Garden & Gun magazine: Lake Martin on cover
Date:	5/23/2018 5:14:19 PM (updated 5/23/2018 5:17:33 PM)

 http://gardenandgun.com/articles/lake-martin-alabama/

Name:	George -	Reply
Subject:	Garden & Gun magazine: Lake Martin on cover
Date:	5/23/2018 5:29:12 PM

That doesn't look like Lake Martin.  Where are the 4' wakes crashing across the bow and the Seadoos passing within 3'?

Name:	Lifer -	Reply
Subject:	Garden & Gun magazine: Lake Martin on cover
Date:	5/23/2018 7:39:28 PM

I just wonder how much advertising Russell Lands  had to buy to get all that "free" press.

Name:	wix -	Reply
Subject:	Garden & Gun magazine: Lake Martin on cover
Date:	5/23/2018 10:19:08 PM

AMEN...

Name:	UncleSam -	Reply
Subject:	Garden & Gun magazine: Lake Martin on cover
Date:	5/24/2018 3:09:18 AM

Free press, and quite a few whitewashed "facts," too. Some of the descriptions were straight out of 1970.

Name:	39KC -	Reply
Subject:	Garden & Gun magazine: Lake Martin on cover
Date:	5/24/2018 11:28:47 AM

Wow, I had no idea that there would be negative reactions to this cover and article. Now I know. 

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Garden & Gun magazine: Lake Martin on cover
Date:	5/24/2018 11:44:13 AM

I liked the cover.  It was part of an overall section on various Southern lakes.  I didn't agree with some of the comments in the article, but overall good publicity for our lake.  I just thought it was a shame that when talking about restaurants, they didn't mention "The Landing", which to me is more about lake living than Spring House.  

Name:	39KC -	Reply
Subject:	Garden & Gun magazine: Lake Martin on cover
Date:	5/24/2018 12:21:46 PM

"I didn't agree with some of the comments in the article"

Which ones? 

Name:	John C -	Reply
Subject:	Garden & Gun magazine: Lake Martin on cover
Date:	5/24/2018 2:46:26 PM

I am sure that everyone can agree that it is extremely positve news that Ambrose Canoes had a product of theirs on the cover. A small, locally owned "maker" business is featured on the (arguably) biggest regional tastemaker magazine. G&G only publishes like 6 times a year. This is a huge honor. I am really happy for them.

Name:	Tall Cotton -	Reply
Subject:	Garden & Gun magazine: Lake Martin on cover
Date:	5/25/2018 9:06:56 AM

While publicity is nice, sometimes I wish the places that are special to me could be kept secret from the rest of the world. I feel that way about our lake, Center Hill, and the city where I live as we become more and more overcrowded.  Everytime we get ranked in the best 10 places to retire I know there will be another surge of traffic and the infrastructure in place will be pushed to it's max. After a while the natural beauty is no longer enjoyable, and the affordableness disappears. Then the next spot becomes the "in' place to be and it soon becomes overrun.

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Garden & Gun magazine: Lake Martin on cover
Date:	5/25/2018 1:27:30 PM

As far as I know (and it may not be very far, indeed), you can no longer rent a Russell Cabin, at least not on most of the lake.  

And I am not a huge fan of Spring House, although I understand it is true that that you can dock your boat and get a ride up to the restaurant.  

But overall, I thought it was a positive article.  

BTW, G&G has featured houses on Lake Martin before, mostly ones designed by Bobby Alpine.  

I have to agree with Tall Cotton, once a place make "best place to retire", it can change a lot of things if the hoardes decide that a place is the "it" place to go.  And we know what comes with that.  But I think the prices on Lake Martin, over some of the other lakes, will discourage a huge influx of people.

Name:	UncleSam -	Reply
Subject:	Garden & Gun magazine: Lake Martin on cover
Date:	5/27/2018 12:35:40 PM

"Tastemaker." Just the thought that anything called a tastemaker exists is horrifying. But not as horrifying as the fact that there are people who rely on tastemakers to tell them what to like.

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Garden & Gun magazine: Lake Martin on cover
Date:	5/28/2018 12:08:47 PM

I think G&G is a better magazine than just a "tastemaker" .  But it often spotlights local businesses that might not otherwise be known.  Good publicity for them.  G&G is defintely targeting an upscale audience, but there is a lot of good writing there.  I only wish in their "good Dog" segment, that they wouldn't publish stories where the dog dies.  

Name:	39KC -	Reply
Subject:	Garden & Gun magazine: Lake Martin on cover
Date:	7/11/2018 2:30:33 PM

Lighten up, dude. Geez.