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It was a good thing Wallace Dyar’s presentation was in the form of a personal recollection. “I will spare you a recounting of the history,” he said. “Plenty has been said and written about all of that.” One would have been hard put to tell this crowd anything they didn't already know about Pollock and the park.
Gathered to honor Skyland’s 100th were people like park historians Darwin Lambert and Jack and Carolyn Reader. Freeman Pollock autobiographer Stuart Brown was there signing copies of his book Skyland. The older gent wearing a cowboy hat was Ather Sisk, a retired stonemason who helped his father Charlie Sisk build the incomparable stone lodge called Massanutten, the private residence of Pollock and his wife Addie. Ather went from this work to building the stone walls on Skyline Drive itself.
Mr. and Mrs. James Lee from Blainesville were there. Mr. Lee waited on tables at Skyland in 1925. But his real claim to fame was he played the slide-horn in an all brass band at one of Pollock’s bonfires.
The owners of Luray Caverns, Rebecca and Robert Graves, were on hand. “No human tongue can properly convey to the mind of the reader their beauty,” Pollock wrote
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