CLUE: Could this rushing falls be around here? You go figure. There’s not much that the nearby surroundings are telling anyone studying this Mystery Photo. You’ll have to be especially alert to solve this edition’s mystery. Once you get an idea, send it to elliott@brack.net, and be sure to include your address.
Last edition, only two persons solved the mystery, both regulars. First in was Ruthy Lachman Paul, Norcross, who identified the turn-of-20th-century home of Lawrenceville First United Methodist Church, which was constructed in 1891. It was located a block from Historic Gwinnett County Courthouse and Lawrenceville Square. This location suffered a devastating fire in 1902, that destroyed most of the building and church records, along with the adjacent schoolhouse. The site was then rebuilt and served as the home of the Lawrenceville Methodist Church for many years, until the congregation relocated to its current facility at East Crogan Street at Langley Drive. The building then served other congregations before it was remodeled in 2007 as the present-day Aurora Theatre. The other person identifying the photo was Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill. The recent mystery was sent in Bob Foreman of Grayson, whose architectural firm was the architect of record for the Aurora Theatre building, also known as the Lawrenceville Performing Arts Center, completed in 2007.
Blue moon
Chuck Paul of Norcross shot this Blue Moon on the night of July 31 from his deck. It was the second full moon of July, 2015. A blue moon is defined not as the color of the moon, but when a month has a second full moon. (There was one on July 1.) The next Blue Moon will take place on January 31, 2018, then another will follow that year on March 31. The earliest recorded note of two moons in a month was found in England in 1528. Used colloquially, it means rare event, as in “Once in a blue moon.” Thanks, Chuck!
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