Yep, another lighthouse for today’s mystery. This time you should extend your imagination of where this particular lighthouse might be. Let’s see if this mystery is difficult for our readers. Send your guess to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.
Perhaps many of our readers haven’t been to Buford lately. For that is the location of last week’s Mystery Photo. George Graf of Palmyra, Va. pinpointed it: “This is the Stonehedge Garden Club’s Daylily Sculpture, at the Buford Main Street Park and Amphitheater. The idea of a Daylily Sculpture took hold in the imaginations of club members as that flower is the club’s symbol. Jim Bradford, a sculptor who lives in Buford, was approached with the idea to see if this was feasible and affordable. His concept is a 16-foot tall daylily placed at 400 East Main Street in Buford. It features stainless steel stems and copper flower leaves, and moves slightly in the wind. The sculpture was dedicated on May 4, 2021.
“The Stonehedge seed money started the project off, but more was needed. Members approached individual donors. The city pledged the labor and the land. Other funding was raised by individuals contributing in honor of loved ones. The names honored are Doris “Dot” Kilgore Beard, Donnis Cheek Bowman, Selma Medlock Cheeley, Mae Alice Coleman and “Mac” Miller.
“Public art is increasingly the type of project that cities across the country are taking on to beautify their towns, but also to celebrate and support the arts. Bradford even added an educational component by including directional plaques on each side of the flower’s base: pointing north, south, east and west. Says Mary Alice Beard, “I have never passed by the sculpture that there weren’t people sitting there admiring it.”
The mystery photo came from Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill.
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