THE MUSIC WILL FLOW at the Suwanee Porch Jam, scheduled June 21 in Old Town Suwanee. Notice the casual atmosphere as people enjoy the music while in laid-back styles. For more on this event, part of Make Music Day, see Upcoming below.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Learning About Anti-Semitism While Visiting in Israel
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Lawrenceville Resident Pens Book of Conversations with the Father
ANOTHER VIEW: Describes Problems in Our Country Brought by the Affluent Society
SPOTLIGHT: Precision Planning, Inc.,
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
UPCOMING: Thompson Seeks Democratic Nomination for County Commission Chairman
NOTABLE: Lilburn Farmers Market in 10th Season at Good Shepherd Church
RECOMMENDED: The Jungle Grows Back by Robert Kagan
GEORGIA TIDBIT: The Brumby Family Has Long Been Distinguished in Marietta
MYSTERY PHOTO: Another Sunset Awaits Your Sleuthing in Identifying this Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: North Georgia Reads Presents Laurel Snyder June 22 in Peachtree Corners
Learning about anti-Semitism while visiting in Israel
Jerusalem
By Tim G. Echols
Vice chairman, Georgia Public Service Commission
ATHENS, Ga. | As an evangelical Christian, I have gone to church practically every Sunday and heard the words “Jew and Gentile” uttered in some variation during a Sunday School lesson or sermon. And while my church experience helped make me a supporter of Israel, I knew few Jewish people and very little about the anti-Semitism they experience in America and around the world.
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Because of the outreach efforts of the American Jewish Committee, I was invited to a “leader exchange” program called “Project Interchange.” The experience is held in Israel and provides an overview of Israeli issues and technologies. For my trip, we visited an electric car facility, met with military officials, toured a winery, observed security measures near Gaza and even ventured over the border to the Palestinian capital to meet with a professor. I came back with a new appreciation of the fear that Jews experience living in their homeland.
What I didn’t fully understand is the anti-Semitism that Jews around the world still experience today. From synagogues being attacked or defaced to high school kids being called the equivalent of the “N” word, Jews today still face ridicule, I discovered.
None of us have control over the home we were born into or comments our parents or relatives make about other races. But as adults—as dads and moms—we can set our children on a different path. For me, that has involved building relationships with people different than me, inviting them into my home, learning about their struggles, and coming to their aid—verbally, socially and even financially, if the situation merits it. It is in this personal approach that those around us can consider a different approach.
As only a handful of the non-Jewish people at the Global Forum in Washington D.C. recently, I found myself greatly enjoying my crash course in Jewish life, distinctives and even inside jokes. The 2,500 Jewish people at the event were passionate about their “Jewishness” and Israel, and they didn’t always agree. In fact, more than one Jewish person told me “that where you have three Jews—you have five opinions.” I had encountered Jewish “Chutzpah” in Israel—that characteristic of challenging the status quo or offering a better solution—but the Global Forum opened my eyes to many other issues facing Jews in the Diaspora (those Jews not in Israel).
I left the event with a new appreciation for the people who gave me my Old and New Testament (even if they only accept the first half). I re-committed myself to fostering an understanding of anti-Semitism and race relations. And I had renewed effort for American support of Israel and policy issues, like the Eastern Mediterranean Security and Energy Partnership Act, that strengthens Israel’s Western boarder—the Mediterranean Sea.
Most importantly, I gained a new appreciation for the Jewish people and their commitment to their tribe, family and friends. I can’t wait to attend a Shabbat Service in Sandy Springs with my new friend, Stan.
(Reach Tim Echols on Twitter @timechols or by email at techols@psc.ga.gov).
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Lawrenceville resident pens book of conversations with the Father
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
JUNE 18, 2019 | When it’s your habit to rise every morning, and write down your thoughts, first saying, “Good morning, Father,” you eventually might decide to compile these thoughts together. That’s what Jeannie Barge LaBarbera of Lawrenceville has done recently, getting a book published with that title, Good Morning, Father.
She came to this position, you might say, naturally, since she was raised in the church. Her father, Harold Kilpatrick, was pastor of the Buford Highway Baptist Church in Doraville for 20 years. She says: “As a child, God impressed me with the idea of spreading the Gospel.”
For four or five years, Jeannie started writing her daily devotionals, something of a conversation with her God. Eventually she went to the Internet, posting her daily collection of thoughts on Facebook. As the number grew, she knew she wanted to see these thoughts all together in a book.
She says: “It sounded complicated, and I worried it for 6-8 months, but then the Lord said it was time to do it.
“Then I had to find a company to print them,” Jeannie said the other day. Soon she learned of Westbow Press, a strategic self-publishing alliance between HarperCollins Christian Publishing and Author Solutions LLC. “They helped me through everything, including editing. Now if I ever had to do another book, I am at least educated in this field.”
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The 240-page book sells for $17.95 softbound and $27.95 hardbound, through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other selected stores.
Will she do another of these books? “Well, I write every day. If God impresses me to do so again, I will. I don’t do this for making money, but to encourage others in Christ to have a stronger faith, and practice ways in life to help others.”
She’s considered Lawrenceville her hometown for 60 years. Over the years, she has been on short term missions of two and three weeks in such disparate places as Latvia, Ghana, Israel and Lithuania. She spent over a year in mission work in Buenos Aires. “When I was in other countries on trips, and especially when I lived in Argentina, I really fell into writing. My pen flowed like crazy. And today even at home, I write every day the ideas that God puts in my heart and mind.”
Jeannie’s first husband of 34 years, Glynn Barge, died in 1995 in a hunting accident. At Hebron Baptist Church, Jeannie in 2012 met Carl LaBarbera, who had been a missionary in India for three years. She and Glynn had known Carl and his wife, who passed away in 2010. “….when he returned in 2014, we were married and I went back to India with him.” They came back to Lawrenceville in 2015.
Jeannie’s book is easy to read. It has each daily devotional on facing pages. She starts out with her words with God, usually about a paragraph long. On the same page, she expands that, often with Bible verses, and giving other references to that day’s thoughts. There’s space on the facing page for the readers to jot down their thoughts on this subject.
Her topics vary.
- What’s on God’s mind?
- What is the limit of His forgiveness?
- Why did He choose the leaders of the nations?
- To whom does He reveal secrets?
Jeannie LaBarbera’s efforts is to point readers to God’s word toward the answers, and invites them to write their own questions or thoughts on the book’s pages.
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Describes problems in our country brought by the affluent society
By George Wilson, contributing columnist
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. | First, let me reintroduce the idea of social balance between private industry and the public sector. I will paraphrase noted economist, John K. Galbraith, from his book, The Affluent Society.
I would suggest that as private spending increases, public spending should increase to match. Atlanta traffic and trailers at schools are prime examples of this in our area. Moreover, for example, if factories build more cars, more money needs to be invested in public roads.
Unfortunately, private goods are sold via advertising by companies that can react quickly to changes in demand. In contrast, public investment by the governments reacts much more slowly, and typically lags private spending and investment, because of regulations, bureaucracy, and voters’ general aversion to new taxes.
The result is a world rich in private goods, but poor in public ones: beautiful cars driving on poor roads, well-dressed children in the crumbling public school, neighborhoods with beautiful homes but few parks.
Another area of new thinking is to recognize that in a global economy, artificial intelligence, automation and the new “gig” businesses like UBER, which now employs 1.3 million just in the United States. The welfare state concept along with our outdated labor laws should be changed to seek to protect not jobs, but individuals.
We should acknowledge that the most detrimental inequality in modern societies is not only income inequality, but professional preparation and labor laws that need to be changed. An example, portability with health insurance should be the norm.
Also: we should call for government to invest heavily in education and training to help prepare workers to compete in global labor markets. We should also seek to provide individuals with support in health care, child care, lower college costs, and modern transportation systems. Furthermore, we should increase our long-term scientific research to stay ahead of our major competitors in the world. This, coupled with an energy policy that encourages renewables will increase jobs.
Finally, Conservatives, Libertarians and southern politicians, in my view, tend to be against this public investment, thinking it harms our state and country. We need to rip the banner of disruption from the Trump populists and reveal them for what they really are: a conservative force that wants to protect an unsustainable status quo to benefit themselves only.
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Thompson seeks Democratic nomination for county commission chairman
Lee Thompson, Jr., an attorney of Lawrenceville has announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Gwinnett County Commission Chair. Thompson believes his background and experience provide him with unique qualifications to lead the Gwinnett County government.
Thompson
He states, “I believe that the residents of Gwinnett County deserve a leader who understands the history of Gwinnett County and has a vision for the future. Fifty years ago, Gwinnett County was a rural county. We had leaders who provided the infrastructure to allow Gwinnett County to become one of the fastest growing counties in the nation. Now the County faces a new set of challenges. Within the next decade our county will grow to more than one million residents and be one of the most diverse counties in the country.
“We now need new leaders with the vision and imagination to equip Gwinnett County to lead the nation in regional transportation planning, creative redevelopment, creation of green jobs, protection of our natural resources and inclusion of all members of our community in decision making. The state and the nation will be watching Gwinnett County to see if it embraces its diversity to become a vibrant urban community or whether it allows prejudice, fear of change, and lack of imagination to hinder its progress. Leadership should be grounded in hope, unity, inclusion and integrity. I want to lead Gwinnett County into a new decade of dynamic development that improves the lives of all of its residents.”
Thompson grew up in Gwinnett County and has practiced law in Lawrenceville for more than 30 years. His law practice concentrates on the representation of local governments and his firm provides representation to the Gwinnett County Board of Education and the cities of Sugar Hill, Duluth, Grayson and Lawrenceville.
He holds an undergraduate degree in history and political science from Mercer University and a law degree from the University of Georgia. A longtime member of the Gwinnett Democratic Party Executive Committee and the State Committee of the Democratic Party of Georgia, Thompson has also held elective office. In 2009 and 2010 he represented the Lawrenceville area in the Georgia House of Representatives. While in the General Assembly he was a deputy whip for the Democratic Caucus. In 2010, Lee was recognized by the Georgia Conservation Voters for having a perfect score on votes of environmental importance. Out of the 236 members of the Georgia General Assembly, he was one of only 25 legislators to receive this recognition.
Thompson is a graduate of the first class of Leadership Gwinnett. He has been a certified mediator since 1990 and serves on the Board of Directors of the Justice Center of Atlanta, a non-profit that provides mediation services and training. Lee was also an original member of the Gwinnett Tech Foundation. In 2011, he helped establish the Central Gwinnett Cluster Foundation and served as its first president. He is a past president of the City Attorney’s section of the Georgia Municipal Association.
Thompson and his wife, Connie, have been married for 29 years. Connie holds a Master’s of Science Degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of Texas at Arlington and is a graduate of Leadership Gwinnett. For a number of years, she served as Operations Director of mediation services for the Gwinnett Branch of the Justice Center of Atlanta. Lee and Connie are elders at the First Christian Church of Lawrenceville. They have one child, a daughter, Rebecca, who is a senior at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Rebecca attended Gwinnett County public schools and was the 2016 valedictorian at Central Gwinnett High School.
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Summer Porch Jam (Make Music Day) is June 21 in Suwanee
The Suwanee Summer Porch Jam is part of Make Music Day – an international celebration of music! Launched in 1982 in France, it is held on the summer solstice (June 21) every year in more than 1,000 cities in 120 countries. The first Make Music Day event in Georgia, Summer Porch Jam evokes the feeling of an old-fashioned summer block party, complete with food trucks and beverages!
Held in the historic Main Street district, Suwanee Summer Porch Jam features multiple artists playing (sometimes unusual) outdoor venues. Classic rock and blues band Riff Blender will serve as the event headliner, playing at the Burnette Rogers Pavilion on Main Street. Located in the historic 1880 Rhodes Hotel, Huthmaker Violins will host a bluegrass band on one of the many wrap-around porches, and feature an instrument petting zoo for those interested in learning to play the strings.
Suwanee Academy of the Arts will host a children’s karaoke stage, complete with all of your favorite Disney showstoppers.Children can also make their own shakers and join in a drum circle/jam session at the Caboose in the heart of Main Street. And Everett’s Music Barn brings top bluegrass talent to our community every Saturday night, and – for this very special occasion – the Friday evening of the summer solstice! Other venues will feature local talent and a student showcase from Town Center Music.
Suwanee’s Summer Porch Jam takes place on June 21 from 6-10 p.m. in Old Town Suwanee. Parking is available at Town Center; from there, it is a short 15-minute walk to Old Town. Complimentary shuttles will also be available. A full list of venues and schedule is available at Suwanee.com. For more information, please contact City of Suwanee Events and Outreach Manager Amy Doherty at adoherty@suwanee.com.
No-fee pet adoptions continue at animal shelter through June
Gwinnett Animal Welfare will waive adoption fees on all pets for the remainder of the month of June.
Alan Davis, Animal Welfare and Enforcement Division director, says: “Our Shelter Pets Rock event was a huge success with 39 pet adoptions in one day, but because shelter counts remain near capacity, we ask families who have ever considered adding a pet to their homes to do so now.”
Summer is historically a peak season for animal intake at shelters, and Gwinnett shelter numbers reflect an increase in strays and owner surrenders when compared to previous months. During the week of June 3, Gwinnett Animal Welfare recorded 166 intakes and 96 adoptions.
Davis adds: “Whether you are looking for fluffy puppies, cute kittens, playful dogs or loving cats, please consider adopting from the shelter at this time.” All pets adopted at Gwinnett Animal Welfare have been vaccinated, neutered and microchipped and are ready to go to their new home. Dogs that have tested heartworm positive will be treated before going home to their new families. The standard adoption fee is $45 for dogs and puppies and $30 for cats and kittens.
Gwinnett Animal Welfare is located at 884 Winder Highway in Lawrenceville. For more information including available pets, adoption specials and events, visit www.GwinnettAnimalWelfare.com.
County invites businesses to discuss vibrant business community
Gwinnett County wants to hear from you, whether you’re a big or small business looking to expand, an entrepreneur starting out or a developer looking to build or redevelop property. The county wants to know what it can do to foster a vibrant business community. The event is June 20 at 8:30 a.m.
Join for Coffee and Conversation, a new initiative that puts you in touch with our Economic Development team and decision-makers for Planning and Development, Purchasing, Water Resources, Transportation, Police, and Fire Departments – all over a casual cup of java. It’s a great way to share a suggestion, solve a problem, gain insight, and for all of us to be vibrantly connected.
The conversation will be held at the Studio Movie Grill, 3850 Venture Drive, in Duluth.
Lilburn Farmers Market in 10th season at Good Shepherd Church
The Lilburn Farmers Market will celebrate its 10th season this summer. This seasonal market operates every Friday in July and August from 4 to 8 p.m. and is located at 1400 Killian Hill Road in the parking lot of Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church.
Booths filled with locally grown fruits and produce and locally sourced grass fed/grain finished beef and pork, cheese, honey, smoked salmon/trout, tea blends, jams/jellies, pickles, granola and baked goods. Handcrafted pottery, bath and body products, dog biscuits, herbs and novelty towels can also be found.
Come hungry because each week ready to eat foods are available –barbecue, wood fired pizza, Cuban foods, boiled peanuts and specialty drinks can be found.
The Lilburn Farmers Market partners with Wholesome Wave Georgia for the Georgia Fresh for Less program which doubles EBT benefits on eligible purchases at the market. When a SNAP/EBT customer swipes their card for $10, they will receive $20 to spend at the market on fresh, healthy, local food that is higher quality and more nutritious. This program is instrumental in providing nourishing, healthy choices affordable for low-income families.
Of course, locally grown and produced foods are the backbone of the Lilburn Farmers Market but the market is so much more! Chef Lisa Lowe, our market chef, hosts chef demonstrations using ingredients found at the market. Come by and watch Chef Lisa make the dish, taste it, pick up the recipe and then shop the market to recreate the dish at home.
New to the market in July is Love Local Lilburn – taste the difference. Come and taste market fresh peaches and tomatoes and then compare them with peaches and tomatoes purchased from the grocery store. Taste the difference for yourself.
Free workshop at George Pierce Park July 2 concerns wildlife habitat
It’s almost impossible to ignore the buzz about pollinators these days. The survival challenges faced by native bees and butterflies threaten much of the wildlife in the metro Atlanta region.
In a free workshop entitled “The Neighbors are WILD,” concerns about human impacts on wildlife, native plants and natural habitat will be explored in a framework suitable for adults and youth ages 12 and up. The workshop will be July 2 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at George Pierce Park in Suwanee. It includes lunch.
Hosted by the Gwinnett Soil and Water Conservation and the Upper Ocmulgee Resource Conservation and Development council, this conservation workshop brings scientists and self-proclaimed “nature nerds” together to discuss plants and animals that are endangered, threatened and critically vulnerable in local urban and suburban areas.
Because of increased awareness of conservation issues in metro wetlands, forests and local communities, this workshop will also offer practical ways for concerned citizens to proactively support nature, often beginning in their own backyard. Speakers from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources/Wildlife Resources Division, Georgia Forestry Commission and the USDA/Natural Resources Conservation Service. Seat reservations are encouraged, and reservations for a free lunch are required by June 28. To RSVP, please email Tixie.Fowler@gacd.us or call 770-365-2593.
Lilburn Woman’s Club seeking to collect shoes for others to wear
Can you believe that over 600 million shoes go into landfills across the United States annually and the majority of these shoes can still be worn!
Lilburn Woman’s Club Conservation Program is collecting new, used and gently worn shoes until August 2 in partnership with Funds2orgs. This collection will keep shoes out of landfills in our area while sending the collected shoes to developing countries.
All donated shoes will be redistributed throughout the Funds2Orgs network of micro-enterprise (small business) partners. Funds2Orgs works with micro-entrepreneurs in helping them create, maintain and grow small businesses in developing countries where economic opportunity and jobs are limited. Proceeds from the sale of the shoes collected in shoe drive fundraisers are used to feed, clothe and house their families.
Check out your closets for shoes that have been outgrown, are out of style, or are out of season. Men’s, women’s and children’s shoes are needed in all sizes and styles!
Drop-off collection box locations for these shoes are at:
- BB&T Lilburn Branch, 4700 Lawrenceville Highway, Lilburn;
- Beans & Butter Coffeehouse, 851 Oak Road, Lawrenceville;
- Five Oaks Florist, 1038 Killian Hill Road, Lilburn;
- Iglesia Bethesda, 6000 Live Oak Parkway, Suite 112, Norcross;
- Lilburn Farmers Market, 1400 Killian Hill Road, Lilburn;
- Lilburn Lawnmower, 4450 Lawrenceville Highway Lilburn;
- Lisa Richardson, State Farm Office, 620 Hillcrest Road, Suite 500, Lilburn; and
- Snellville Automotive, 3354 Stone Mountain Highway, Snellville.
Lilburn Woman’s Club asks that Gwinnett residents work together and make a big difference in the lives of individuals by providing jobs and shoes to wear while reducing the landfills.
The Jungle Grows Back, by Robert Kagan
From Joe Briggs, Suwanee: The Jungle Grows Back by Robert Kagan is a leading conservative’s survey of United States foreign policy over the last century. He argues that our unprecedented 75 years without a world war is soon to come to an end because short-sighted Americans have grown weary of what they perceive as expensive, misguided foreign blunders. This is excellent and thought-provoking work and the competence in which it is articulated would convince most to accept it as gospel. But it would be a mistake to proceed without challenge. For example, was our toppling of leaders such as Iran’s Mosaddegh or Libya’s Quadaffi more responsible for world peace than the United Nations? Are we safe today because of divine American meddling or in spite of it? I recommend balancing with John Mearsheimer’s The Great Delusion or Andrew Bacevich’s Twilight Of the American Century.
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The Brumby family has long been distinguished in Marietta
The Brumby family‘s fortunes have, for generations, been tied to Marietta. The family has distinguished itself in local politics, in newspaper publishing through the Marietta Daily Journal, and in business by way of an iconic rocking chair that has graced porches from humble residences to the White House.
The Brumbys’ connection to Georgia began with James Remley (“Jim”) Brumby, the eighth child of Catherine Sarah Remley and John Greening Brumby. Born in 1846 in Mississippi, Jim Brumby followed his parents in 1861 from Benton, Miss., to Marietta, where the elder Brumby took a job managing a tannery that supplied the Confederate army during the Civil War (1861-65). That same year Jim Brumby entered the Georgia Military Institute, which was founded by his uncle Colonel Arnoldus V. Brumby, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York. In 1863 Jim Brumby and several cadet comrades enlisted in the Seventh Georgia cavalry, commanded by Wallis Brumby, Arnoldus Brumby’s oldest son.
In 1864 Union general William T. Sherman burned John Brumby’s tannery to the ground during the Atlanta campaign, and 19-year-old Jim returned home to a devastated landscape. After trying and failing with another tannery business, Jim Brumby enlisted the help of a former slave named Washington and started building barrels by hand to supply nearby flour mills. In 1867 he founded the Marietta Barrel Factory. When flour companies began to use sacks instead of barrels, Jim Brumby bought a hand lathe for $25 at a courthouse auction and experimented with making chairs. He formed a partnership with a friend, Major Henry Myers, but also sent for his younger brother, Thomas, who arrived from Mississippi in 1875. The business began as Brumby and Brother, incorporating in 1884 as the Brumby Chair Company. Jim Brumby retired from the business in 1888.
He married Laura Margaret Smith in 1866, and they had six children. Four years after his first wife’s death in 1912, he married Evelyn Holmes. They had no children. Jim Brumby died in Florida in 1934.
When Jim Brumby retired in 1888, his younger brother, Thomas Micajah Brumby, became the second president of the Brumby Chair Company. The tenth child in the family, Thomas Brumby was born in 1852 in Mississippi. He married Mariah Louise Bates in 1874, a year before he joined his brother at the Marietta chair factory. The couple had six sons and one daughter.
During his thirty-five-year term as president of the Brumby Chair Company, Thomas Brumby made the company one of Marietta’s largest employers and one of the Southeast’s largest chair factories. The handmade Appalachian red oak rockers with cane seats became standards for two popular southern activities: porch sitting and baby rocking. At the same time, Thomas Brumby was elected to two terms as mayor of Marietta and became the first president of the Marietta Electric Company, the forerunner of the Marietta Board of Lights and Water. In addition, he helped to organize the Marietta Bank and Trust Company. He is not to be confused with his cousin Thomas Mason Brumby, Arnoldus Brumby’s son and Marietta native who raised the first American flag over Manila, in the Philippines, during the Spanish-American War (1898).
(To be continued)
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Another sunset awaits your sleuthing in identifying this Mystery Photo
Here’s another beautiful sunset to identify at this edition’s Mystery Photo. We’ll admit that there’s not much to go by with this photograph, though it is gorgeous. Send your idea to solve this puzzle to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
That beautiful sunset in the previous Mystery Photo caught the immediate attention of Jo Shrader of Suwanee, who wrote: “I think this may be the Marshall Point Light Station at the entrance of Port Clyde Harbor in Port Clyde, Maine. The light station was established in 1832 to assist boats entering and leaving Port Clyde Harbor. The original lighthouse was a 20-foot tower lit by seven lard oil lamps with 14-inch reflectors. The original tower was replaced with the present lighthouse in 1857.” She’s right. The photo came from Robin Braswell, a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Others recognizing it included Jim Savadelis, Duluth; Mikki Dillon, Lilburn; and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex., and George Graf, Palmyra, Va.
Peel wrote: ‘The Marshall Point Lighthouse was first established in 1832. The original lighthouse was a 20-foot tower lit by seven lard oil lamps with 14-inch reflectors. This tower was replaced with the present lighthouse in 1857. Now it is a 31-foot tall white brick tower on a granite foundation. The tower was originally lit with a 5th order Fresnel lens. A raised wooden walkway (as seen in the mystery photo) connects the tower to land and the nearby keeper’s house. The lighthouse was automated in 1980 and the original Fresnel lens was replaced with a modern set of 12 inch optics.
“How many readers recognized it from the 1994 classic movie Forrest Gump, featuring Tom Hanks? There’s a brief (27-second) video clip of Forrest approaching the Marshall Point Lighthouse, David Kraner posted a video screenshot of it on YouTube at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH-FBLV4a0Q.
Dillon added: “I not only pleinair painted there in fog some years ago, but took the boat to Monhegan Island right past it for another day of painting. I also photographed inside the keeper’s house on another day.’
Picnic in the Park with the Braselton Police will be Saturday, June 18 from 6 to 9 p.m. Meet the department officers, view the police vehicles up close, enjoy hamburgers and hot dogs provided by Braselton’s own Block ‘n Blade and play in the splash pad or on the playground.
Fishing Derby will be June 18 from 9 to 11 a.m. at OneStop Centerville, 3025 Bethany Church Road, Snellville local pond. Reel in intergenerational fun as seniors guide new anglers on fishing techniques for National Go Fishing Day. Parent or guardian participation and signed liability waiver are required. Bring fishing poles. Bait and prizes included. No fishing license required. For ages 3 to 15. Preregister online with code OSC31000 or call 678-277-0228.
Herb Gardening will be June 18 at 6:30 p.m. at the Peachtree Corners Branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library, 5570 Spalding Drive. Many types of herbs can be grown locally including basil, rosemary, sage, and fennel. UGA Extension Gwinnett Agent Timothy Daly will discuss the basics of growing herbs and the best types of herbs to grow in our area. Register by email at events@gwinnettpl.org.
The Rectory
Divergent Theme Reception of fine art is Friday, June 21, at The Rectory, 10 College Street, in Norcross, from 6-8 p.m. Highlighting the works of Kim Crowe, Kathy de Cano, John R. Duke, Vickie McCrary, Pam O’Sullivan, Patty Stokes and Betty Juodis, the show will run from June 21-26. Come meet the artists and enjoy the [rockin’!] musical stylings of violinist Justin Monday.
North Georgia Kids Read presents award winning children’s author, Laurel Snyder on Saturday, June 22, at 1 p.m. at the Christ the King Lutheran Church in Peachtree Corners. Snyder is the author of six bestselling novels for children and many picture books. She also teaches in the creative writing department of Emory University. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Refreshments served and silent auction by Friends of the Library.
The Southeastern Pastel Society 2019 National Juried Exhibition will run through August 10, at the Quinlan Visual Arts Center at 514 Green Street in Gainesville. Reception and awards will be on June 13 at 5:30 p.m. The center is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and on Saturday from 10a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is Free. This exhibit will feature 76 paintings in a variety of styles painted by artists from nine states. For more information call the Quinlan Visual Arts Center 770-536-2575, or visit quinlanartscenter.org.
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