Today we turn to a river scene as the Mystery Photo. Try to identify where this photograph was made, and send your ideas to elliott@brack.net, including your hometown.
Throw in a local mystery, and it’s as if our readers are expecting photos from other places, not Gwinnett. The last Mystery Photo was recognized by only two people, one local, Jim Savedelis of Duluth, and the reliable George Graf of Palmyra, Va. The recent photo came from Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill. With the picture not published on the Internet before, it made the identification more difficult.
Here’s what Graf wrote of this mystery: “This photo was taken at the Suwanee Town Center, 330 Town Center Avenue, in Suwanee The artwork is ‘Who Let the Dogs Out?’ by Jim Collins. The ‘dogs’ in this case are Dalmatians. Almost inevitably, given their great capacity and almost insatiable desire for exercise, they were long ago turned out with fire engines and raced the horses through the streets, thus acquiring the nickname “The Fire House Dogs.”
“The dogs are constructed of powder-coated stainless steel and are the approximate size of real Dalmatians. The larger dogs weigh 35 pounds while the smaller ones weigh 15 pounds.Jim Collins is primarily a public art sculptor. His sculpture style has been characterized by the use of silhouettes of people and animals fabricated of stainless steel, aluminum, and other metals. Collins was a professor of art at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga from 1966-83, when he resigned to devote himself full-time to his career as a professional artist. He received degrees from Marshall University in West Virginia, the University of Michigan, and a master of fine arts degree in sculpture from Ohio University. Collins currently resides in Signal Mountain, Tenn.”
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