CLUE: Today’s mystery photo may be a creampuff to some travelers. So tell us where you think scene was shot, and which rail line it is. Send your ideas to elliott@brack.net, and be sure to include your hometown.
The mystery photo in the last issue was topical, and sent in by Ross Lenhart of Pawley’s Island, S.C. The figures in the photo are of Larry Doby and Bernard Baruch, in a setting at Archives Plaza in Camden, S.C., honoring two native sons.
John Stringer Rainey, a native of Anderson, S.C., moved to Camden in the 1970s. Best described as an unconventional Southern gentlemen, Mr. Rainey found it totally unacceptable that Camden had never chosen to honor two of her hometown heroes, and decided he was just the man to rectify the situation. He commissioned sculptor Mariah Kirby-Smith to fashion statues of two of Camden’s finest: Bernard Baruch and Larry Doby. And they named the work “Reconciliation.”
The only person getting the identification right was Ruthy Lachman Paul of Norcross. Here is what she wrote: “Larry Doby was an American baseball player in the Negro leagues and Major League baseball who was the second black player to break baseball’s color barrier. Bernard Mannes Baruch was an influential Jewish-American who made his fortune on speculation in stocks, which made him one of the leading figures on Wall Street in the early 20th century. Then he turned his attention to party politics in America, was the political and economic adviser to Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt and one of the strongest people in the Democratic Party of the time.”
LAGNIAPPEState representative
Georgia’s 111 Washington Youth Tour (WYT) delegates have chosen Dacula’s Chris Larkins as the 2015 state representative to the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s (NRECA) Youth Leadership Council (YLC). Larkins was sponsored in the program by Jackson EMC. Larkins return to Washington, D.C. in July, along with 43 other state representatives for the week-long program. As Georgia’s representative, Larkins will also speak at Georgia EMC’s Annual Meeting, held in Savannah in November; participate in NRECA’s Annual Meeting in New Orleans, La. in February; and speak at the WYT kickoff banquet in June 2016.
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