GwinnettForum | Number 21.73 | Sept. 30, 2022
A NEW PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT is now on display at Norcross Gallery and Studios. Anne Labaire chose the iconic oversized clock in Paris Museum’s Musee D’Orsay in a light and shadow composition. For more details, see Notable below.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Finalists named for $50,000 Hudgens art prize in Georgia
EEB PERSPECTIVE: “Mass timber” is new use of Georgia’s many acres of forest lands
ANOTHER VIEW: Cavorting during 1983’s Hurricane Alicia hitting Galveston
SPOTLIGHT: Howard Brothers Outdoor Power Equipment and Hardware
FEEDBACK: Print news is like a Princess phone without a landline
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Technical College names three new directors
NOTABLE: Georgia Gwinnett College offers new MIS degree
RECOMMENDED: “Shelter in Place” at the High Museum of Art
GEORGIA TIDBIT: American College of Rheumatology based in Atlanta
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s an up front and personal photo about a building
LAGNIAPPE: Family gathers to honor Revolutionary War patriot
CALENDAR: Hurricane-induced weather cancels several events
Finalists named for $50,000 Hudgens art prize in Georgia
By Stephanie Lloyd
DULUTH, Ga. | The four finalists for the $50,000 Hudgens Art Prize in Georgia have been announced. They are Olu Amoda, Shanequa Gay, Jessica Self and Jamele Wright.
This year’s $50,000 Hudgens Prize will be announced at the closing reception for the exhibition on Friday, October 7, from 5 to 7 p.m., at the Jacqueline Casey Hudgens Center for Art and Learning, in Duluth.
The four finalists were named in April. With a cash award of $50,000 and an invitation for a solo exhibition for the winning artist, the Hudgens Prize is one of the largest art awards given in the nation, and is open only to Georgia residents. As a Hudgens Prize finalist, their works are on view through October 15 at the Hudgens Center.
The finalists were selected by a jury of arts leaders. They are: Lauren Tate Baeza, Fred and Rita Richman Curator of African American Art at The High Museum of Art; Jamaal Barber, artist, printmaker and professor at Georgia State University; and Thomas (Tom) Francis, painter and Professor Emeritus, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Olu Amoda, from Smyrna, has worked consistently over the past three decades to create a sculptural language that has unique character and beauty. Working as a sculptor, muralist, furniture designer, and multimedia artist, Amoda is best known for using repurposed materials found from the detritus of consumer culture. His works often incorporate rusty nails, metal plates, bolts, pipes, and rods, that are welded together to create figures, animals, flora and ambiguous forms. Amoda explores socio-political issues relating to Nigerian culture today, from sex, politics, race and conflict to consumerism and economic distribution. Amoda graduated in sculpture from Auchi Polytechnic, Nigeria, and received a Master’s Degree of Fine Arts from Georgia Southern University, USA.
Shanequa Gay of Atlanta draws upon ritual and personal memory, storytelling, fantasy, and the deep well of southern black traditions found in her home place of Atlanta. Gay’s fodder is play, indigenous belief systems and the spirit of African-Ascendant Women and girls finding divinity in self. Gay engages in this practice through installations, paintings, performance, photography, video and monumental sculptural figures. Gay received her BA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and an MFA from Georgia State University.
Jessica (Jess) Self is a contemporary artist based in Atlanta who works with wax, wool, and wood to create mixed media figurative sculptures. Self received her BFA from Warren Wilson College in North Carolina and an MFA from Georgia State University.
Jamele Wright of Atlanta is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work is concerned with the Black American vernacular experience, creating a conversation between family, tradition, the spiritual and material relationships between Africa and the South. Wright graduated from Georgia State University with a B.A. in Art History, and received his Masters of Fine Art from School of Visual Arts in New York City.
The purpose of the Hudgens Prize competition is to elevate and promote the arts in Georgia while offering a transformational opportunity for the winning artist. The Hudgens Prize was last awarded in 2019 to Paul Stephen Benjamin. Benjamin continues to receive nationwide recognition including a recent exhibition, Black Form, at Davidson College’s Van Every/Smith Galleries.
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“Mass timber” is new use of Georgia’s many acres of forests
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
SEPT. 30, 2022 | Forestry is mighty important to Georgia. With about two-thirds of the state covered in forests, Georgia has more plantation acres, more total timberland acreage and more privately-owned timberland acreage than any other state in the United States. And the forests provide 55,089 forest industry jobs.
The director of the Georgia Forestry Commission, Tim Lowrimore, was addressing the Gwinnett Rotary Club this week, proudly telling about the industry, and introducing to us a new product Georgia timberman, “Mass timbers.” Essentially this means that Georgia wood producers have a new market for wood, Lowrimore says.
Mass timber is a new category of wood building product that can revolutionize how America builds. It is comprised of multiple solid wood panels nailed or glued together, which provide exceptional strength and stability. It’s a strong, low-carbon alternative to concrete and steel, which dramatically increases the structural strength. Used in Europe for years, mass timber is emerging as a new technology in North America.
This product is being used for wall board, floors and ceilings, and even be made into beams. Panels can be as long as 52 feet, six to nine feet thick. The benefits include reduced weight of the overall structure and expedited onsite building.
Mass timbers have seen usage primarily first in the Pacific Northwest. One building of this construction in Vancouver, British Columbia, is an 18 story tall dormitory.
Essentially, this means that Georgia wood producers have a new market in mass timbers, Lowrimore says.
For years, Georgia timberlands have supplied wood for many different products, pulpwood for paper, saw timber, poles and veneer logs. Georgia also produces lots of wood pellets, mostly for export to Europe.
And think of the wood products we use daily, toilet paper, grocery sacks, paper towels, diapers….and to a lesser extent these days, newsprint.
Lowrimore can also list among other basic Georgia wood products from our trees: pine straw, extracts, teas, and medicinal products, such as extracts, tinctures, and salves. (A 10 year old pine straw stand can yield up to 100 bales per acre of straw every three years. It’s a new industry, spurred on by modern professional landscapers.)
Then there are our pecans and walnuts, the fruits, including apples, peaches, pears and persimmons. Others from trees: honeys, gum, resin, turpentine…and even Shiitake mushrooms…(though they are mighty small trees.) Then there is what natives call “lightard,” that is, fat-lighter loaded with resin for starting fires.
In his talk, Lowrimore also addressed the commission’s efforts at protecting the forests through its fire-fighting program. The commission has an extensive program of working with landowners with controlled burns, which results in fewer wildfires. “We have a well-trained fire fighting force, and when a wildfire is detected, we respond in a timely manner.”
However, one of Georgia’s largest wildfires took place in the Okefenokee Swamp. A downed power line sparked the blaze on April 16, 2007. It consumed 20,000 acres in the first 48 hours alone. By April 21 it had spread into the Okefenokee Wildlife Refuge. When it was deemed contained in July, it had decimated more than 564,450 acres in Georgia and Florida, damaged nine homes and gobbled up $65 million dollars in timber.
Lowrimore says: “Coupled with the amount of prescribed burning and forest management, we are fortunate not to have many catastrophic wildfires.”
Forestry is a mighty industry in our state. Now with mass timber, here’s another way this industry can contribute to our nation.
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Cavorting during 1983’s Hurricane Alicia hitting Galveston
By David Simmons
NORCROSS, Ga. | With Hurricane Ian bearing down on Florida, it made me recall my one and only hurricane experience in Texas….was enough.
It was August 18, 1983. My business partner (and best friend) David and I WENT TO Hurricane Alicia. We traded places with two lady friends we knew that wanted to get off of Galveston Island, Tex. We drove there and had them take both their and our cars back to the Woodbine Inn, our historic hotel in Madisonville, Texas, halfway between Houston and Dallas.
Before the ladies left and as the hurricane approached, in the early evening we went skinny dipping in the gulf. We were the only ones out there. The waves were pounding in on the beach harder and harder as the evening went on. It was memorable!
Then, later, as the hurricane approached, David and I prepared for the onslaught, consuming beer, watching the news coverage on television until the power went out, then stayed under a mattress on the floor at about 1 am as all hell broke loose. It was 45 minutes of terror, then an eerie calm, as the eye of the hurricane passed over us.
Fifteen minutes later the wind came blasting back from the opposite direction. We were in a house up on telephone pole stilts on the second floor, waving back and forth about 18 inches in each direction. At the worst of it, it was almost like a carnival ride. I’m just glad those poles held up.
By 7 a.m., there was an absolutely gorgeous, beautiful, clear blue sky. In the street, water was up to our waist. A mom and pop grocery across the street had a broken front window. It looked like an ant colony, as a continuous stream of bodies went through the window, arms laden with all they could carry.
As the water slowly subsided, we walked six blocks, then along Seawall Boulevard. The front wall was all left of a bowling alley. The rest? Gone! Nothing but rubble.
We walked around all day, looking at the carnage. The power was out for three days and luckily the first day we were able to buy a couple bags of ice at an inflated price until the Galveston Causeway was reopened and the girls were able to come back with our car.
Still, it was extremely hot. Two bags of ice, although a god send, wasn’t much to last for three days in 90 degree heat. The girls thanked us for providing them shelter from the storm, and we thanked them for giving us the opportunity of a lifetime.
The hurricane went straight through Galveston and up Interstate 45 and pounded Houston, knocking windows out of the high rise buildings. As we escaped up I-45, we got almost all the way to Houston before any of the businesses along the highway had power.
When we finally got back to the Woodbine Inn in Madisonville, it turned out that Dave’s brother Rick, who we had left to run the business while we had our adventure, had added substantially to our coffers. Wisely, he had temporarily hired our two lady friends to help out, doubled the daily rental rate and sold out the hotel for the duration. The only television in the building was in the bar, and everyone wanted to see what Alicia was doing so the bar stayed full for the entire time, revenue pouring in.
All in all, it was a fairy tale hurricane story for us.
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Print news is like a Princess phone without a landline
Editor, the Forum:
recent GwinnettForum reminded me of a lecture delivered by the president of Cadmus Communications in Richmond. They were a major publication printer in Richmond and the speaker had a keen mind. He was speaking of the rapid changes in media and communications that were affecting how we lived.
His opening statement was, “Is there anyone here who believes that print will be a dominant media in 20 years?” No one put their hand. This was 1990, as I remember. I Googled his company today and it has closed in Richmond. Not dominant but closed.
Electronic media has replaced the printed page. For the average reader, the feel and smell of the page enhances the interaction with the words in the total intimate absorption of reading. Today that is lost to the cyber world. And there are certainly a large number of people who spend much of their time there.
The upside is the reduction in groundwood paper products in massive tonnage and the filling of landfills with the used news or magazines. Titanium is in black ink. Newsprint is very recyclable. I had an ad from the Depression that offered about the same price for #8 news as we paid in the 90’s.
The youth of today are not conditioned to the printed word. Print news is like a princess phone with a landline.
–Byron Gilbert, Duluth
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Gwinnett Technical College names 3 new directors
Tucker, Sale and Anker
Three new members have been named to the Gwinnett Technical College board of directors. They are:
- Kim Anker, chief nursing officer for Northside Hospital Gwinnett and Duluth;
- Raymer Sale Jr., chief executive officer for E2E Resources Inc.; and
- Deon Tucker, regional director, North Metro for Georgia Power.
Dr. D. Glen Cannon, president of Gwinnett Technical College, says: “I am confident their knowledge and expertise will continue to serve the Gwinnett Tech community and workforce demands.”
Anker earned her Bachelor of Nursing from Emory University and a Master of Nursing Leadership from Walden University. Since 2009, Kim has worked for the Northside Hospital system in several leadership positions.
Sale, since 2006, has been a Lifetime and Qualifying Soaring Eagle Member of the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU). He joins other Gwinnett County business leaders to meet with members of Congress in Washington, DC, to listen and discuss legislative issues and policies related to healthcare.
Tucker leads the company’s external affairs activities for DeKalb, North Fulton, Gwinnett, Forsyth, and Rockdale counties. She is active in the community and currently co-chairs the Forward Macon campaign, an economic development effort of the Macon-Bibb County Chamber. Deon holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgia State University and a Master of Science in Organizational Leadership from Troy University.
Georgia Gwinnett College offers new MIS degree
Kathy Zaino, Bailey Rungruang and Hajira Kahn
When Bailey Rungruang, 22, started his college career, he dove headfirst into the computer science world. After spending some time learning exactly what a programming career entails, he realized that he didn’t like the “heads-down” approach to coding, where he focused only on his projects. He wanted something that allowed him to combine his love of coding with his desire to work with others.
Enter Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) and its new management information systems (MIS) degree, a way for students like Rungruang to experience the best of both the technology world and the fast-paced, person-to-person interactions of the business space.
An MIS degree focuses on combining the coding aspect of a back-end developer with the social interaction of a business manager. Examples of careers that benefit from MIS degrees include information security analysts, data analysts and database engineers.
Kim Windham, Mytiem Moc and Dawnel Bell
Dr. Tyler Yu, dean of GGC’s School of Business (SBA), is excited to put the community’s desires at the forefront. In creating the degree, SBA solicited extensive employer and community input. “In every discussion, constituents voiced a need for more qualified applicants to fill available management analyst and computer information systems positions,” Yu says.
The new major was introduced this fall. So Rungruang is in the process of changing his major to MIS because he feels it better suits his dream of becoming a scrum master in the aviation field. A “scrum master” facilitates adherence to established processes and removes obstacles to help teams achieve goals.
“I’ve always wanted my pilot’s license, so a job working in the flight industry would be a great way to springboard into a personal passion, and MIS puts me right where I need to be.”
Kim Windham, 41, a senior MIS and bachelor of business administration double major from Stone Mountain, says her time at GGC has helped her cultivate a working understanding of her field. “MIS sets me up well because GGC’s program exposes you to tons of coding languages. Getting into the industry with this much experience in different languages, like C# or Python, sets you apart,” says Windham.
- MIS graduates are in high demand, with 69 percent being placed into the workforce with an average starting salary of about at $65,000. For more information on the MIS degree at Georgia Gwinnett College, visit www.ggc.edu.
Norcross Gallery showing works of 10 photographers
In a new photography exhibit, Norcross Gallery and Studios has chosen the works of ten accomplished photographers in a wide-ranging show now open at the gallery. The exhibit includes varied subjects in color or dramatic black and white, affirming a quote from Ansel Adams, “There are no rules for good photographs. There are only good photographs.”
Wil Grewe-Mullins’ “Platform” is a haunting photo taken in the early morning on the MARTA train platform at the Fort McPherson station. It was a very foggy day, and the fog, the light, and the moment all came together, he says. Anne Labaire chose the iconic oversized clock in Paris Museum’s Musee D’Orsay in a wonderful light and shadow perfect composition. As an artist and art lover her visit there was a delight which shows here.
A colorful photo is “Jammin’ on Thrasher Street” by Jean Baldwin, who reports “these two ladies were providing entertainment during an arts and crafts show. The lady on the right is an old and dear friend who currently lives in a retirement community in Stone Mountain. She is in her 90’s, a talented musician and still going strong!”
Another dramatic black and white photo by skilled photographer Mikki Root Dillon is “Sunrise, Sapelo II.” It is a combination of the dead tree from a hurricane and the clouds that morning on Sapelo Island.
Norcross Gallery and Studios provides artists with creative opportunities and professional resources, thus advancing the cause of Fine Arts awareness and education in the artistic and local communities. The Gallery and Studios are open Thursday, Friday and Saturday 11 am to 4 p. m.
New I-85 lanes soon to open between Braselton, Jefferson
An additional interstate lane will soon be completed by the Georgia Department of Transportation (Georgia DOT) each way on Interstate 85 between Braselton and Jefferson.
It is part of the Major Mobility Investment Program projects. Weather permitting, four of the first 6.7 miles of the project will open the new third lane the first weekend in October, nearly two months ahead of schedule.
The project will widen I-85 north and southbound from two to three lanes between Braselton at Georgia Highway 53 and U.S. Highway 129 near Jefferson. The project is also replacing and widening six mainline bridges and one overpass bridge, which opened in late August after a seven-month closure.
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“Shelter in Place” at the High Museum of Art
It’s always fun to visit the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. A current exhibit by designer Stephen Burks will show you new ways to look at the interior design of your home. He uses the power of craft techniques to challenge the limits of new technologies. He works with furniture, lighting, interiors, exhibitions, and product design to develop items that make you think of them with a new eye. He says it is “radical domesticity through craft” to present new ideas. Burks is an American designer and a professor of architecture at Columbia University. He is the first African American to win the National Design Award for product design. His work is in the collections of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, the High Museum of Art, as well as Corning Museum of Glass. His work is the subject of a touring exhibition, “Stephen Burks: Shelter in Place” at the High.–eeb
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American College of Rheumatology based in Atlanta
The American College of Rheumatology (ACR), founded in 1934, is based in Atlanta.
Its mission is to attract and support the training and development of qualified physicians and other health care professionals, and to support research designed to investigate the causes, improve treatment, and work toward the prevention and cure of rheumatic diseases. These diseases include all forms of arthritis and more than 100 related diseases, such as osteoarthritis, systemic lupus, scleroderma, gout, HIV-associated rheumatic disease syndromes, tendonitis/bursitis, fibromyalgia, and Lyme disease.
According to recent reports published as a collaborative effort among the ACR, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Arthritis Foundation, an estimated 40 million Americans, or one in six, have some form of arthritis or other rheumatic condition. That number was expected to increase to 59.4 million by the year 2020.
Since 1985 the goal of the Research and Education Foundation (REF) of the ACR has been to invest in education and training programs for medical personnel, support research into the prevention and cure of rheumatic diseases, and lobby for more federal funding. The ACR publishes two journals, Arthritis and Rheumatism and Arthritis Care and Research. The ACR has also established a program of awards, including the Medical and Pediatric Resident Research Award, the ACR/REF/LRI Lupus Investigator Fellowship Award, the Physician Scientist Development Award, and the Pediatric Rheumatology Research Award.
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia article online, go to https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Here’s an up front and personal photo about a building
This is undoubtedly a handsome structure, but sometimes when you get close to one, it’s hard to identify. Can you figure out this puzzle and locate what this photo is about and where it was taken? Send your thoughts to elliott@brack.net, including your home town.
First in with the identification of the recent Mystery Photo was Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill: “This is the Chateau Vaux le Vicomte, considered to be the largest private castle in France. It’s about 30 miles southeast of Paris and is sometimes used in movies to represent Versailles. It was built for Nicolas Fouquet, the minister of finance during the reign of Louis 14th, and was completed in 1661.” The photo came from Jim Cofer of Snellville.
Michael Green of Milton added to the history: “The building shown is Vaux le Vicomte. It was an influential architectural structure in 17th century Europe. The chateau was built between 1658 and 1661 in Maincy, France. Nicholas Fouquet, finance minister for Louis XIV, overreached with the extravagance of the building and aroused suspicions that he had misappropriated public funds.”
We can depend on our regulars for pinpointing the photos. Also identifying it were Lou Camerio of Lilburn; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex.
Peel added a footnote of the chateau: “Always looking for some unexpectant historical facts, I uncovered this history about what happened to Fouquet: “When it was completed in 1661, Fouquet held a lavish banquet at the château for Louis XIV with the intent to impress him with his good taste. This gesture sadly backfired when a power-hungry adviser, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, made it seem as though Fouquet was upstaging the king with public funds. Fouquet was subsequently arrested and thrown in prison for life. And more recently, in September 2019, six unidentified thieves broke into the château, tied up its owners and escaped with at least two million euros’ worth of jewels and cash. The thieves were not armed and the owners, a couple in their 80s, were not injured.”
Family gathers to honor Revolutionary War patriot
With 40 years of genealogy research and two years of event planning, Button Gwinnett Chapter Sons of the American Revolution President Don McCarty of Snellville brought his vision of honoring his Revolutionary War patriot to fruition with the dedication of a marker on September 24 in Quinton, Ala.
According to Don, “It has been through the McCarty Edgefield South Carolina Y-DNA study that a number of the male McCarty family members learned of each other starting in 2006. There are over 100 cousins, through six different ancestry lines, who wanted to join me in celebrating the service and life of our common ancestor, Michael McCarty.
The dedication of the grave marker event was sponsored by the Button Gwinnett Chapter, Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution; Birmingham Chapter, Alabama Society Sons of the American Revolution; Dr. Elisha Dick Chapter, Virginia Society, Daughters of the American Revolution; and Cahawba Chapter, Alabama Society, Daughters of the American Revolution. Over 150 people attended this event, with 19 ceremonial wreaths being placed from patriotic organizations in six states, including the Philadelphia Winn Chapter DAR in Lawrenceville.
“We are family” is the title of the 2022 black-tie optional Rainbow Village benefit gala, will be held Saturday, October 1 at 6:30 p.m. at the Atlanta Athletic Club. The event will include reception and dinner, silent and live auctions and raffle to win a week for four in Tuscany, Italy. Tickets can be purchased online through the Rainbow Village website at www.RainbowVillage.org.
POSTPONED: The planned 12th annual Public Safety Fall Festival has been postponed.
RESCHEDULED: Because of anticipated inclement weather, the 43rd Annual Elisha Winn Fair will be rescheduled for Saturday and Sunday, October 8-9, at the Elisha Winn House, Gwinnett’s birthplace, at 908 Dacula Road in Dacula. Enjoy a living history exhibit, good food, craft vendors, music, blacksmithing, weaving, spinning and military re-enactors. The fair is sponsored by the Gwinnett Historical Society.
CANCELED: This weekend’s Snellville Farmers’ Market is canceled. The next market will be Saturday, October 15, from 9 a.m. until noon in the parking lot behind City Hall. It was the first time the market has been canceled in its 13 year history.
Snellville’s Historical Society will meet on Sunday, October 2, at the Snellville City Hall at 2 p.m. Speaker will be Dr. Quincy Brown, senior pastor of the Snellville United Methodist Church. He is a native of Gainesville, and graduate of the DeVry Institute of Technology. He also is a graduate of the Candler School Theology at Emory and holds a doctorate from Gammon Theological Seminary at the Interdenominational Theological Center. Part of the meeting will be a silent auction for hand-turned bowls made from the late Troy Thompsons’s oak tree. You must be present to win.
Candidate Debate hosted by the United Peachtree Corners Civic Association will be Monday, October 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the Christ The King Lutheran Church, 5575 Peachtree Parkway in Peachtree Corners. Candidates for the Seventh Congressional District, three House Districts and one Senate Districts have been invited.
Hispanic Latino Heritage Festival will be Tuesday, October 4 at 6:15pm at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center in Lawrenceville. This year’s theme, “Unidos: Inclusivity for a Stronger County,” will be marked with food, performances, and remarks from the Board of Commissioners and historian Dr. Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez.
The 50th annual Lilburn Daze celebration is Saturday, October 8 at Lilburn City Park. Sponsored by the Lilburn Woman’s club, it is co-sponsored by the City of Lilburn. Hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. This festival allows the club to support and enrich the Lilburn community through scholarships, support of the arts, beautification projects, public health and safety projects, and much more. Come for the shopping opportunities, rides, games, tons of food, and entertainment. There is something to appeal to every member of the family.
Picnic with the police on the Braselton Town Green on Thursday, October 13 from 5-8 p.m. Come enjoy food and drinks at no cost. There will be kid’s activities, police cars and West Jackson fire trucks.
Fourth annual Rewriting Your Story gala in support of the Gwinnett County Public Library foundation will be Saturday, October 15 at 6 p.m. at the Atlanta Athletic Club in Duluth. Three people will be honored: Beauty Baldwin, David McCleskey and Clyde Strickland. Keynote speaker will be Army Master Sergeant Cedric King. For details including ticket information, contact jdifranco@gwinnettpl.org.
The Fort Daniel Frontier Faire will be held Saturday, October 15, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. The Faire will be in Hog Mountain, , just south of the intersection of Gravel Springs Road and Georgia Highway 124. There will be blacksmith demos, ongoing public excavations, museum/lab education, genealogy, living history encampment, frontier life education and lots of fun for all ages.
The Braselton Zombie 5K Run/Walk will be Saturday, October 15, starting at 8:30 a.m. Zombies will take over Braselton as top male and female runners will compete in age groups. There will be prizes for the best-dressed zombies. This is a qualifying event for the AJC Peachtree Road Race.
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