Grandpa McDuffey: 50 Years at the Lake of the Ozarks

"It Was My Lake": Grandpa McDuffey on Shorecrest, the Flood of '86, and Opening a Water & Sewer Company My grandpa, Mike McDuffey, turns 83 in October. He came to the Lake of the Ozarks in 1976 and ran Shorecrest Resort on Bridal Cave Road for 13 years. In 1990, he started Lake of the Ozarks Water and Sewer after a man with a dissolved oxygen meter took him out in a boat and showed him the lake was dying. We sat down at his kitchen table on his farm and went through his life: working-clas...