Our simple goal... is to serve the community by providing a forum for residents and fans of Kingsley Lake to freely share information & ideas.

Our content is provided by our readers. No one is paid and everyone is welcome to participate. Nothing is censored or removed unless it’s deemed inappropriate or unethical by a panel of contributors, and all that’s been contributed has been posted. So if you think we’re missing something, have new information, updates, changes, or any questions about how or what to contribute, that’s when you should step beyond being a mere spectator, and offer to help us out. Please write us and we'll be happy to work with you to help make your participation easy and fun.

KLO is provided by vacation home resident Clark Thomas as his gift to the community. If you want to share responsibility for the content & direction of the site, you will be heartily welcomed & encouraged.

current KLO staff

Dolores Atchison says it was “love at first sight” on her first visit to Kingsley at age eight in 1938, and she came every year thereafter to visit her grandmother, Mrs. Hildabelle Bence, eventually buying the house she lives in now from Hildebelle’s estate. For 25 years before moving back to Florida, Dolores worked in Security for several large department stores in New York. Dolores and husband Lou have seven children and eighteen grandchildren. She loves gardening, crafts, and taking pictures, and her photos are frequently featured on our home page. Email: dolla@embarqmail.com

Clark Thomas is the manager of this site and lives in Nashville with his wife Mary Beth and their three sons, Jay, Brian & Billy, who somehow spend an amazing amount of time at Kingsley. Clark is a professional photographer and his family shares the home at Dock 74. Email: clark@kingsleylake.org

Sophronia Thomas lives in Fleming Island with her husband David and their two children. They have enjoyed day visits and summer vacations at the lake for many years and would one day love to become permanent residents. Sophronia is interested in helping with the reorganization and updating of the lake history. Email: sjtgator@bellsouth.net

Christie Torode is our Events & Dates calendar manager, and a teacher and the media specialist at Bradford High School. She moved to Starke when she was three, and moved to Kingsley Lake when she married Carl in 1980. Christie has two daughters, is a member of Kingsley Lake Baptist Church, and is also interested in photography. Email: bioshell@yahoo.com

Please email us (here) if you would like to help.

some starter IDEAS for potential staff

Photographers... we have a bunch, but yes, good photos are always welcomed! Please send us you lake photos—and if you do it often we'll consider you a staffer!

Writers... there are SO many great things to say about Kingsley, don't you think? Especially profiles about some of our long time lake residents, with historical details and their old lake photos. We could send a photographer to make a current portrait too.

History buffs... We get LOTS of questions about the history of the lake. We could post short personal anecdotes, or even long articles from a variety of sources—if we had them or new where to find them. Wish we had as many historians as we do photographers! We need help organizing the history info we already have too!

Comments Page Helpers... This may be the easiest and most valuable way to help out. Our "Comments Page" can be a little intimidating, especially for novice computer users. Comments Page Helpers can answer questions, and hopefully inspire new topics for discussion.

Regular contributors can receive a kingsleylake.org email address...!

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