These two gunfighters may be easy to identify, but specifically finding where these statues are located may be the hard part. Send in your thoughts to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include your hometown.
Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill, was one of just two people who recognized the last Mystery Photo, sent in by Ross Lenhart of Pawley’s Island, S.C. She says: “The mystery photo is the Borghese Gallery (Galleria Borghese) in the Villa Borghese in Rome. Brings back such good memories! I stayed right outside the Villa Borghese gate (the Porta Pinciana) the last time I was there.”
Of course, George Graf of Palmyra, Va. also recognized the mystery. He writes: “It is the Galleria Borghese art gallery in Rome, Italy, housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana. I visited Rome, but sadly didn’t get time to visit the Galleria Borghese in the free time allotted on our guided tour.
“The museum’s collection was formed by Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1579–1633), the most knowledgeable and ruthless art collector of his day. It was originally housed in the cardinal’s residence near St Peter’s but in the 1620s he had it transferred to his new villa just outside Porta Pinciana. Titian’s early masterpiece, Sacred and Profane Love, was painted in 1514. (In 1899, the Rothschilds’ offer to buy the work from the gallery for 4 million lira – more than the value of the whole Galleria Borghese building and collections, then valued at 3.6 million lira – but was refused).”
Watching a soda straw rocket soar at GSMST
Rotary Club of Stone Mountain member Gene Fleeman has worked in aerospace engineering for over 50 years, including 20 years with the U.S. Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory and 14 years with Rockwell. Now with the help of his fellow Rotarians, Fleeman is seeking to inspire a new generation of rocket engineers. As part of the schools’ STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) program, Gene and his Rotarian team are visiting local schools, where they teach the students how to build and launch soda straw rockets. The students learn basic skills in physics and math as they compete with each other in a rocket race. Here students from The Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology watch as their soda straw rockets soar.
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