OPENING ON THURSDAY, September 15, will be the Gwinnett Livestock and Fair Association annual Gwinnett County Fair. The location is at the Fairgrounds, off Sugarloaf Expressway in Lawrenceville. Roving Photographer Frank Sharp in 2015 took this scene with the Ferris Wheel silhouetted against the fading sun. For more details, see Calendar below.
IN THIS EDITIONTODAY’S FOCUS: Gwinnettian Amazed at Jaw-Dropping Scenes near Sedona, Arizona
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Each Gwinnett City Needs To Celebrate Its Own Uniqueness
ANOTHER VIEW: Some Day Will We Look Upon Trump as Another McCarthy?
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Medical Center
FEEDBACK: Suggests to Readers It’s Time To Check Your Index for Happiness
UPCOMING: Lilburn Hosts “Remembering Our Fallen” Memorial until Sept. 14
NOTABLE: Tannery Row Artist Colony Seeking Entries for Juried Art Exhibit
RECOMMENDED: The Restless Wave by John McCain and Mark Salter
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Josiah Tattnall Serves Navy with Distinction Around the World
MYSTERY PHOTO: Sculpture in this Modern Setting Needs Identifying
CALENDAR: Gateway Food and Music Festival will be September 15 at Lillian Webb Park
TODAY’S FOCUSGwinnettian amazed at jaw-dropping scenes near Sedona, Arizona
(Editor’s Note: The following is an account of a Gwinnett family and their trip Out West earlier in the year. The author is co-president with Betty Warbington of the Gwinnett Historical Society.—eeb)
By Beverly Paff
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. | As my husband, Joe, and I planned our four-week road trip out west earlier this year, the tune and words: “Get Your Kicks From Route 66” ran almost non-stop through my head. It still does as I write this!
The nostalgic feeling connected the pop hit and memories of the popular television show from the 1960s fueled my enthusiasm. Today ,U.S. Highway 66 only exists in remnants alongside modern interstate highways. To be clear, our Bucket List included many National Parks and natural wonders along the way. We drove through eight states, all the way to the Pacific coast and back to Lawrenceville. over 5,800 miles in four weeks, detouring to drive on sections of Route 66.
Here are some of the highlights of our trip.
- In Mississippi, we chanced upon the annual festival held in Elvis Pressley’s hometown of Tupelo, held every June.
- In Memphis, visits to Graceland, the Peabody Hotel, Beale Street, and the Mississippi River, kept us busy. I highly recommend Graceland’s compound for all Elvis fans for Elvis memorabilia and much more.
- The Memorial to the victims of the Oklahoma City Bombing was a most moving experience. We also saw that the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum held exhibits of western art, western movies, ranching and Native American artifacts, and a full sized replica of a western town.
- New Mexico has the bluest skies that I have ever seen. This is where the landscape really changed drastically. Old Town Albuquerque was a great shopping and dining experience.
- Driving into Sedona, Arizona was flat out jaw-dropping, awe inspiring! I had seen pictures of the red rock formations, but that had not prepared me for the beauty. Sedona should be on everyone’s bucket list. My favorite thing of the entire trip was going up in a hot air balloon to view the sunrise over Sedona.
We stayed three nights near Williams, Ariz. to take in sites at the south rim of the Grand Canyon National Park. The more experienced hikers in our family went down half way into the Canyon. With a warning from a group below, my son-in-law and granddaughter just got off the trail in time to miss a collision with a big horned sheep racing up and sometimes jumping to a higher ledge! The views along the rim hikes were just as grand as I had expected, but more numerous.
We took time in California to stay several nights in a house near Oceanside. We drove to nearby La Jolla Beach to see the sea lions and their pups. Amazingly, you were allowed to walk out on the beach to view them in the wild. After a private tour of Disney Studios in Burbank, we drove to Anaheim, staying within walking distance of Disneyland. My favorite place in California was the Sequoia National Park. The giant redwood trees are something everyone should see.
I’ll leave you with two pieces of advice if you plan to take a road trip such as this. Go before July. The weather was very nice for us in June. We actually had to wear sweatshirts until midday at the Grand Canyon and at the beaches in California. We only had temperatures in the 90s at Palm Springs and in Hollywood. There were extreme warnings and some restrictions due to fire risks. However, there were no fires in the areas that we visited.
Second, if you are a senior citizen, invest in the America the Beautiful lifetime pass for the National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands.
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Each Gwinnett city needs to celebrate its own uniqueness
By Elliott Brack
Editor and publisher
SEPT. 11, 2018 | The cities of Gwinnett are reminding me of the way high-ranking military officers act. If one arm of the services gets a newly-developed weapon or procedure, all the other services feel that they cannot continue as they should unless they have a machine-weapon-idea or procedure like that!
General Gizmo thinks: “Wow, that’s an amazing vehicle. We could sure use one of them!”
Admiral Onslaught feels likewise: “If we had a weapon like that, why that would be the ultimate.”
And on and on. Unfortunately, most of the time the services get these duplicated gadgets, often not needed by that particular service. That’s what lobbyists are paid for!
So to turn to the Gwinnett cities.
The cities are in their own arms race., with each city trying to outdo one another with what they offer citizens.
When one municipality comes up with a good idea, suddenly the other cities of the county take notice. “We could use one of those __________ (fill in the blank…….splash pads, new toddler play area, dog park, zoning for new town houses and apartments, greenway entrance into the city, auto fest, beer fest, wine fest, Coca-Cola fest.)
Other thoughts from the cities:
“So and so has a parade for _______ (season). Why don’t we have a parade?”
“(Some town) has a new Babylonian restaurant. Why don’t we have one?”
“Yes, we need a farmers market, too.”
“How about we get one of those newly-popular town greens?”
“So and So City has a grits festival. It would work here, too!”
“Say, roundabouts are nice. Others have one. Why don’t we?”
“Street sweeper? Never thought of that. We could keep our streets cleaner that way.”
“Peachtree Corners is talking about its own bridge. Where could we put one?”
“Some communities have cemeteries. Why don’t we?”
You see where this can lead…..on and on to make one community pretty much the replication of the next one. Makes you wonder why the cities have their own names. Might as well call them Town One or Town Thirteen, etc.
It can eventually mean that we seriously live in a homogenized society, all the same, all within a short drive of our house. But does every Gwinnett city really need every amenity that one of the other cities has?
What Gwinnett’s 16 cities don’t celebrate as much as they should is the uniqueness of each of these geographic areas! They all have their own distinctiveness and individuality, their own charm, and their own special facilities. That’s what makes them interesting.
Remember, too, that only about 25 percent of the Gwinnett citizens live in one of our 16 municipalities. The bulk of the people in Gwinnett live in unincorporated areas. And many of them enjoy the same services that often the cities provide.
What each city council person must recognize is all these services cost taxpayer money, even though it may be SPLOST pennies. The council members need to make sure every proposed additional service is worthily needed. To keep adding on amenities just because another city has that idea first, who is to tell one city from another?
Let’s celebrate our uniqueness, not try to be like everyone else.
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Some day will we look upon Trump as another McCarthy?
By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. | I am a Republican former elected official. I support a number of President Trump’s general views, but I cannot support him, a totalitarian bully.
Carl Bernstein of Washington Post/Watergate fame has suggested more time be devoted to analyzing the move towards dictatorship by our President, comparing Trump to infamous Senator Joe McCarthy.
McCarthy was prominent during the Cold War, when the USA was swept by anti-communist hysteria. McCarthy played on these feelings, appealing to the frightened GOP base. Sound familiar?
McCarthy disproportionately persecuted Jews and homosexuals, convenient scapegoats (similar to Muslims and Hispanics today). McCarthy’s right hand was the despicable but brilliant Roy Cohn, a closeted gay Jew recommended by J. Edgar Hoover.
McCarthy attacked the State Department for being “infested by Communists”, and falsely claimed he had identified 200 traitors. McCarthy accused Democrats of “20 years of treason.” Sound familiar?
Finally, he questioned the patriotism of the US Army in televised hearings. McCarthy came off as an aggressive, demeaning bully who slandered people without any regard to the truth. Sound familiar?
President Eisenhower disapproved of McCarthy. After public sentiment grew negative, the Senate finally voted to censure McCarthy.
McCarthy proved amazingly little but used smear tactics to ruin the reputation and lives of hundreds of innocent people. For four years, he was supported by GOP leadership, afraid to anger their base. Sound familiar?
Roy Cohn, disbarred before his 1986 death of AIDS, was young Trump’s mentor. From Cohn, Trump learned how to legally employ his unethical, never retreat, take no prisoners, attack strategy. We now have a President using many of the same tactics, even asking “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” when he gets into problems. Maybe that is why it is relatively easy to see the parallels between Trump and McCarthy.
Using the Cohn playbook, Trump is fighting back, hitting below the belt and misleading his base. Trump has designated his primary foe as the intelligence community.
The CIA and FBI have committed the unpardonable sin of honestly investigating how the Russians influenced our 2016 presidential election. And, after Trump’s State of the Union address, he accused Democrats of being “un-American” and treasonous” for failing to enthusiastically applaud him. Sound familiar?
Many Americans expect Trump to refuse to testify before Mueller and to instead pardon underlings, clearly obstructing justice. The real question is, without a McCain or Ike to lead them, what will the GOP do about our modern-day McCarthy?
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Suggests to readers it’s time to check your index for happiness
Editor, the Forum:
Let me ask GwinnettForum readers: are you happy?
Most people are waiting for something (or someone ) “special” that will make their life great, so they can be happy. Ask yourself: have others had this, and are they all happy?
No, they’re not, and it won’t give you lasting happiness, either.
Happiness is not determined by external circumstances, but by internal circumstances.
Everyone chooses how happy they are by what and how they choose to think about things daily.
Your attitude is determined by your perspective, which is determined by what you think about — your focus. You choose your focus, so ultimately, you are the one who chooses whether to be happy, or not. Perspective is what being happy is about. Seeing a bigger picture than just one small moment of time.
Especially in today’s highly charged political times, is it really worth getting so upset and unhappy about circumstances that you have zero control over?
Just my thought, maybe worth considering. Have a Happy Day!
— Steve Rausch, Peachtree Corners
Dear Steve: Thanks for making us look inside ourselves to see how we really approach life. We like the poet, Ogden Nash, who wrote, “Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.”
The Obama administration needs its day in the sun
Editor, the Forum:
Recently President Barack Obama accused the Republicans of all the transgressions of his administration and took credit for all the achievements of President Trump’s administration.
The Obama Administration needs its day in the sun. If nothing else, the average American cleared up their credit and refinanced their homes at rates at or below three percent. Things were steadied.
Growth was a foreign word. Starting a business was not a good idea, sites were dropped. But collapse did not happen. President Obama must be given that. There was no collapse, but the national debt was doubled. Many things in life and history are necessary, but are forever questioned.
Fights over how things could or should have been may prevail. If Senator McCain had won, what would have been different?
— Byron Gilbert, Duluth
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UPCOMINGLilburn hosts “Remembering Our Fallen” memorial until Sept. 14
“Remembering Our Fallen”, a traveling photo memorial wall of Georgia’s Fallen, will be on display in the lobby of the Lilburn City Hall-Library, September 10-14, 2018. This photographic war memorial honors over 210 Georgia based service members who died while serving our country during The War on Terror (9/11/2001-present).
City Manager Bill Johnsa says: “The City of Lilburn is honored to have this important and touching memorial on display. We invite residents to visit Lilburn City Hall to view the memorial and leave notes for the soldiers’ families.” The exhibit includes seven ten-foot panels, information about the history of the exhibit, and a book for visitors to leave messages for the families.
Bill Williams, co-creator of the memorial, says: “We must remember these American Heroes and speak their names when we see their family members. We can never forget those who sacrificed everything for our freedom. While this memorial is about those who have died, it was created for the living…to help the families in their grief, while reminding the rest of us of the terrible price paid for our freedom by our current generation of military.”
This memorial, and 18 other state memorials representing 60 percent of our country’s Fallen since 9/11/01, have been created by Patriotic Productions, a non-profit organization headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. A national traveling memorial that includes all of our country’s Fallen from The War on Terror is now also on tour. For more information visit RememberingOurFallen.org. The memorial is sponsored by Bellevue University.
Lilburn City Hall-Library is located at 340 Main Street. Memorial viewing times are on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (Sept. 11-13) from 8:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; and Friday from 8:30 until 3 p .m.
Ramroop joins Community Foundation of Northeast Georgia
Ramroop
New director of fundholder experience at The Community Foundation of Northeast Georgia is Britt Ramroop. She will work with the Community Foundation’s current fundholders to help them become even more engaged in the opportunities and the needs of the community.
Her key role will be helping each fundholder develop their own personal philanthropic plan to guide their giving. In addition, she will oversee the creation of the Legacy Society, implementation of a new CRM system, and ensure that the annual Good2Give Celebration continues to grow and prosper.
Randy Redner, CEO and president of the Community Foundation, says: “We welcome Britt to our staff. She will work with our more than 200 fundholders and helps them with their journey of generosity.” Ramroop, former director of community outreach at Aurora Theatre, has spent the last 10 years with Aurora, building relationships and connecting people through the arts.
Ramroop, a graduate of Pacific Lutheran University in Washington, is originally from Wyoming but has called Gwinnett home since 2007. She lives on a farm in Loganville with her husband, 8-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter, plus 30-some chickens, 19 goats and two dogs.
Aurora Theatre ringing in season with shows and classes
With cooler days just around the corner, Aurora Theatre of Lawrenceville is ringing in the new season with a variety of fun for all ages.
Friends and families are invited to Sunday Supper in downtown Lawrenceville for a night filled with live music, delectable food tastes, sweet cocktails and locally brewed craft beers – all in support of Aurora Theatre.
Young budding actors eager to take center stage will love the variety of fall classes at Aurora Theatre Academy.
In addition to good times and insightful classes, guests can anticipate big-stage productions on the studio stage and on the main stage. Lawrenceville visitors can also savor crisper September temperatures and cooler nights, perfect for Lawrenceville’s Ghost Tours, along with all the entertaining events at Aurora Theatre this month.
Gwinnett County’s only professional theater is the perfect place for young thespians to study the performing arts. Different than most drama classes, Aurora students have the opportunity to rehearse and perform in a professional theater with top-notch instructors who boast real-world theatrical experience. Students will build confidence while learning communication and life skills, sure to be valuable part of their bright young futures. Classes are priced at $200 for a six- to eight-week session. For more information and registration, visit bit.ly/FallTheaterClasses.
- To see the line-up of classes offered, click here.
Tannery Row Artist Colony seeking entries for Juried Art Exhibit
Bree Sauers exhibits work like this in Studio 92 of the Artist Colony.
The Tannery Row Artist Colony in Buford is asking artists to enter their 2018 Fall Juried Art Exhibit. Deadline to enter is September 22. The exhibit dates are October 13 through November 17.
The judge for the 2018 Fall Juried Exhibit is Rebecca Brantley, director of the Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art at Piedmont College, where she also teaches courses in art history and criticism. Brantley earned a BFA and BA with honors from the University of Georgia in 2005 and was the first undergraduate to receive a CURO (Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities) to assist on a research project at the Georgia Museum of Art. Subsequently, she earned an MA in art history with distinction from the University of Georgia.
The Colony last year exhibited over 80 works of art in a variety of mediums including sculpture, ceramics, mixed media, encaustic, photography and painting. Enjoy live music and lots of wonderful hors d’ oeuvres at our opening October 13 from 5 to 8 p.m. and meet and greet other amazing artists throughout the region.
GGC Office of Athletics earns Five-Star Institution Award
The Georgia Gwinnett College Office of Athletics has been singled out for national distinction, earning the National Intercollegiate Athletic Association’s Five-Star Institution Award, as announced by the NAIA national office August 30.
GGC is one of 74 institutions to receive the gold distinction for the 2017-18 athletic season, based on excellence in training, promotion, conduct in competition and commitment.
Georgia Gwinnett College athletic teams enjoyed success in the classroom and athletic field during the 2017-18 school year. All six programs advanced to the national tournament level in NAIA competition, with the men’s and women’s tennis teams earning national championships.
Off the field, four GGC teams were named NAIA Scholar Teams, four student-athletes were named Google Cloud Academic All-Americans by the College Sports Information Directors of America and a total of 95 student-athletes earned distinction on the Director of Athletics’ Honor Roll. Men’s tennis player Kevin Konfederak was the College Division At-Large Academic All-American of the Year, a first for the athletic department.
RECOMMENDEDThe Restless Wave by John McCain and Mark Salter
Reviewed by John Titus, Peachtree Corners | As he wrote this memoir, John McCain knew he was dying of brain cancer. This was clearly intended to be his farewell address. The book begins with the 2008 presidential election and ends in the early days of the Trump Administration. As he discusses his role in events and issues, he forcefully advocates for his support of immigration reform, human rights, campaign finance reform, opposition to Vladimir Putin, bipartisan approaches to difficult issues, and American exceptionalism. As I read it, these words came to mind to describe John McCain – unflinchingly honest, self-deprecating, accepting of responsibility, grateful, enjoying life and deeply patriotic. If you are a student of American history and politics this book should be read to see what we have lost with his passing.
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Tattnall serves Navy with distinction around the world
Josiah Tattnall was a long-serving American Naval officer and a noteworthy figure during the Civil War(1861-65). He was born at Bonaventure Plantation, near Savannah, on November 9, 1795, to Harriet Fenwick and Josiah Tattnall, a Georgia senator and governor.
Tattnall
Orphaned in 1803, Tattnall was sent to live with his paternal grandfather in England for schooling. He returned to Savannah in 1811 and entered the U.S. Navy as a midshipman in 1812. In August 1814, during the War of 1812 (1812-15), Tattnall fought against the British with land-based naval forces at the Battle of Bladensburg, in Maryland. He married Harriette Fenwick Jackson, his first cousin, circa 1821. They had several daughters and one son.
In 1846 a 70 acre tract of the Tattnall plantation was sold to Peter Wiltberger, a Savannah businessman, for a cemetery. The enlarged burial site was purchased by Savannah in 1907 and continues today as Bonaventure Cemetery.
Tattnall remained in the Navy and saw varied service around the world. He fought against Algerian pirates under Commodore Stephen Decatur, and he was wounded in action during the Mexican War (1846-48). Following duty on the Great Lakes, he became flag officer (before the grade of admiral was authorized) and commander of the East India Squadron at Hong Kong in 1858. In violation of U.S. neutrality Tattnall assisted British warships attacking Chinese forts in 1859. He defended his action by quoting the proverb “blood is thicker than water.” He conveyed the first Japanese embassy to the United States to San Francisco, Calif., in 1860.
After Georgia seceded from the Union on the eve of the Civil War, Tattnall, despite his personal aversion to secession, resigned from the U.S. Navy on February 20, 1861. He was subsequently commissioned as a captain of the Confederate navy, with responsibility for the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina. He conducted unsuccessful actions against U.S. forces at Port Royal, South Carolina, in 1861.
During the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac (CSS Virginia) at Hampton Roads, Va., on March 9, 1862, Franklin Buchanan, the Confederate commander of Virginia, was wounded. Tattnall was named to replace him. Months later, in May, Southern forces attempted to retreat from the Norfolk, area, knowing that Union forces would soon arrive.
Fearing that the ironclad would be captured by Union troops, Tattnall ordered it to be destroyed. Subsequently a board of inquiry censured Tattnall, ruling that blowing up the ship had been unnecessary. He was later exonerated by a court martial. Tattnall returned to his command at Savannah and was there overseeing the destruction of the remaining Confederate vessels, including the ironclad CSS Savannah, when the city fell to the Union forces of General William T. Sherman in December 1864. Following a retreat to Augusta, Tattnall was captured there as a prisoner of war and was paroled in May 1865.
Tattnall moved to Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1866. He lived there for four years before returning penniless to Savannah, where the city created the position of inspector of the port in order to provide him an income. He died on June 14, 1871, and was buried at Bonaventure Cemetery.
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Sculpture in this modern setting needs identifying
Check out this sculpture in some modern city in the world. Figure out where it is and send your idea to elliott@brack.net, including you hometown.
Last edition’s Mystery Photo came from Molly Titus of Peachtree Corners, taken when she and her husband were on a tour earlier in the year. It is the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland. Among those recognizing it were Jim Savedelis, and Dick LoPresti, Duluth plus Ann Sechrist of Snellville, who first thought it was on the Ring of Kerry. Later she changed her mind, saying: “I knew I had seen that somewhere.”
George Graf of Palmyra, Va., gave us this information: “This stone house ruins is on Slea Head Drive. County Kerry, Ireland. In the 17th and 18th centuries Kerry became increasingly populated by poor tenant farmers, who came to rely on the potato as their main food source. As a result, when the potato crop failed in 1845, Kerry was very hard hit by the Great Irish Famine of 1845–49.
“In the wake of the famine, many thousands of poor farmers emigrated to seek a better life in America and elsewhere. Kerry was to remain a source of emigration until recent times (up to the 1980s). Another long term consequence of the famine was the Land War of the 1870s and 1880s, in which tenant farmers agitated, sometimes violently for better terms from their landlords.
In the last issue, we failed to identify the person sending in the photo of the WinShape Retreat Center at Berry College. It was from Steven H Riley of Cartersville.
CALENDAR
The Rainmaker is now onstage at the Lionheart Theatre in Norcross, playing through September 23. It tells the story of a drought in the Southwest, and one con man’s attempt to bring rain. It is directed by Joanie McElroy, with performances on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Reservations highly recommended by calling 678 938 8518.
Gwinnett County Fair starts September 13 and continues through September 23 at the Fairgrounds, located at 2045 Sugarloaf Parkway near Georgia Highway 20 in Lawrenceville. The fair features live entertainment, pageants, livestock shows, youth and adult exhibition winners, plus field crop and home garden winners. More than 200,000 persons are expected to attend. It is a production of the Gwinnett County Livestock and Fair Association.
Gateway Flavors Global Taste Tour will be September 15 from 1 to 5 p.m. The taste tour offers participants the opportunity to sample food from five restaurants in the district representing five distinct cultures. Join the small group and tour the district by trolley, learn about the different cultures and foods represented on the tour and make new friends. For more information on the event or to purchase tickets, visit: https://www.gateway85.com/
Gateway International Food and Music Festival will be held September 15 from 3-7 p.m. at Lillian Webb Park in Norcross. This event will showcase the region’s best multicultural talent and various ethnic foods while highlighting the rich cultural contributions of Gwinnett’s diverse communities. In addition, international and local food vendors will be selling sweet and savory samplings of their home countries.
Retirement Party for Rep. Brooks Coleman, former chairman of the House Education Committee, will be held Sunday, September 16 from 3-5 p.m. at Coleman Middle School, 3057 Main Street, Duluth. He has represented the Duluth area in the House since 1992, but did not offer for re-election this year.
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