Look at the clues in today’s Mystery Photo: water, type or architecture, and a type of cloud. Identify this photograph if you can, and tell us about it. Send your thoughts to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
What we thought might be a difficult mystery photo found several people who easily recognized it. Jay Altman of Columbia, S.C., wrote: “This is the Fishermen’s Memorial honoring the Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada sailors and fishermen who died at sea from 1890 to the present. The memorial sits at the water’s edge in Lunenburg. It was dedicated in 1996.The memorial towers form a compass. Each September, there is an annual Lunenburg Fishers’ Memorial Service on the waterfront honoring those who lost their lives at sea. It includes a placing of wreaths at the memorial and a blessing of the fleet and ends with a local fishing boat placing a wreath in open water in remembrance.”
Stew Ogilvie of Lawrenceville said: “There are eight columns, one at each point of a compass rose, and names are listed as far back as 1890. The plaque for the Memorial reads: ‘Using a design based on that of a Compass Rose whose earliest European use as an aid to navigation for Mariners was circa 1187 A.D., this monument was erected through public subscription by The Lunenburg Fisherman’s Memorial Society and was dedicated on Sunday, August 25, 1996.’
Others recognizing it include Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; Kay Montgomery, Duluth; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Virginia Klaer, Duluth; and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex.
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Previously misidentified, it’s a Japanese magnolia
The identification of Frank Sharp’s recent Lagniappe photograph was incorrect. Rick Krause of Lilburn says that it is a Japanese magnolia bloom, not a tulip poplar tree. Our bad.
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