Here’s a Mystery Photo similar to other such buildings that once were important all over our country. Your job is to identify exactly where this building is located. Send your entry to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. gives us an interesting comment on the last Mystery Photo: “Today’s mystery photo is of the Omni Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, N.H. The hotel was built by Joseph Stickney (1840 – 1903), a native of Concord, N.H., who made his fortune by age 30 as a coal broker in Pennsylvania. The resort is considered to be “the grandest of all the grand New England mountain hotels,” and was built as a summer retreat for the rich and famous of the Gilded Age against the backdrop of the looming Mount Washington, the tallest mountain in New England.
“Joseph Stickney’s wife, Carolyn Stickney (1869 – 1936), spent her summers at the hotel in the early 1900s and she only ever slept in her own ‘travel’ bed (a portable bed that she could take with her back to the south of France, where she spent her winters). Upon her death in 1936, Carolyn decided to move into the hotel on a permanent basis … at least that is what the local myths and legends surrounding this property suggest! To ensure her eternal stay remains comfortable, her original furniture remains in Room 314, otherwise known as “The Princess Room,” which was her room during before (and after?) her death. If visiting the hotel and staying overnight, you can try to reserve Room 314 for yourself, but you will still pay full price, even though you are sharing the room with someone else!” The photo came from Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill.
Others recognizing it include Joe Briggs, Suwanee; Pat Bruschini, Peachtree Corners; Stew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville, “When a kid, I took the cog railway to the top of Mount Washington;” George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; and Joe Altman, Columbia, S.C.
Lou Camerio of Lilburn also nailed the photo, adding: “I would not recommend New England for snow skiing, after spending a week at Killington, Vermont. It just does not compare to the Colorado mountains and other western ski resorts.”
Youth cartoonists wanted to submit their work
GwinnettForum is looking to encourage cartooning by Gwinnett youth. If you know of any students who can draw well, and can dream up outlandish and funny ideas in a cartoon format, they should submit three of their drawings. The sample cartoons to determine those selected should be submitted in a horizontal, black-and-white format by email, to be sent by email to elliott@brack.net. More than one cartoonist might be selected, anticipating that GwinnettForum would show one cartoon in each edition.
Deadline for submission will be Feb. 14, 2023. GwinnettForum will compensate the winner who can produce cartoons on a continuing basis.
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