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Article: Summer at the lake: families flock to Pickwick for water sports, relaxation, reconnecting.
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- Mississippi Magazine
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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Tucked in the northeast corner of Mississippi lies a treasure you wouldn't expect to find in this land of muddy bogs and flood-control reservoirs.
This is Pickwick Lake, home to rocky bluffs, towering hardwoods, and deep, sparkling waters that rise and fall a mere five feet as the seasons pass. It's here that families from three states have made their retreat for generations. And it's here that, today, urban pressures and lakeside dreams are helping to uncover this well-kept secret.
"This was always our retreat place," says Dave Woods, a native of Jackson, Tennessee, who has been coming to Pickwick Lake since the late 1970s. He bought the 325-slit Grand ...