Today’s mystery photo may be too easy for our sleuths. But isn’t it also a beautiful photograph, with the photographer catching the light just right? Put your mind to work and tell us where this is located. Send your answer to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
The previous week’s photo was recognized by Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill: “This is Cape Arago State Park on the coast of Oregon. There are no distinguishing landmarks here and it also looks like parts of many other coasts. But I say it’s the Oregon coast because I’ve been there. The entire coast of Oregon is truly gorgeous!” The photo comes from Rick Krause of Lilburn.
Also spotting it were George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Stew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; Lou Camerio, Lilburn; Fran Worrall, Lawrenceville; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex.; and Stew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville, who noted: “The west has tall pines and few hardwoods. Alder, a short tree is the most common hardwood out there. The spruce and the pines like Ponderosa and Monterey are common.”
Peel also added “Cape Arago is a scenic headland jutting into the Pacific Ocean that was first sighted by Europeans during one of Sir Francis Drake’s expeditions in the late 1500s. It was later named Cape Gregory by the English navigator James Cook, who spotted the land mass jutting into the ocean on March 12, 1778. Cook chose the name Cape Gregory to honor Saint Gregory the Great – aka Pope Gregory I ,who was typically honored on March 12th, in remembrance of the day the Pope died in 604AD. In 1850, the U.S. Coast Survey listed the location as Cape Arago after the French physicist and geographer, Dominique F. J. Arago. In the 1970s, a theory was posed that English privateer and explorer Sir Francis Drake anchored in the south cove of Cape Arago in 1579 which explains why the land jutting into the ocean in the top-left of the mystery photo is called Drake Point.”
SHARE A MYSTERY PHOTO: If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: elliott@brack.net and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
Students complete Lawrenceville Legacy Leaders program
The inaugural class of 17 students have completed the initial eight-month Lawrenceville Legacy Leaders program. The students are from Central Gwinnett and Discovery High Schools, and Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology. They built leadership skills, completed community service projects, and expanded their civic awareness during the program. On the front row from left, are Councilman Austin Thompson, Councilwoman Victoria Jones, and students Aissata Hann, Ashley Burton, Genesis Cruz, Mayor David Still, students Nadia Mathew’s, Hannah Noble, Valery Valdez, Chameli Tissera, Councilwoman Marlene Taylor-Crawford and Councilman Glenn Martin. On the back row are Program Coordinator Kim Parson, Engagement and Outreach Specialist Josiah Vega, Executive Director Jen Young and students Kevin Jacob, Saumya Palipudi, Sohum Trivedi, Khenya Robinson, Shivani Shreedhar and City of Lawrenceville Community Development Manager Jasmine Billings. Not Pictured are students Kennedy Bryant, Abhi Saji, Aiden Keizer, Mehek Saha, and Eesh Trivedi. (Photo from Rachel Panasyuk.)
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