GwinnettForum | Number 22.91 | Dec. 22, 2023
ON ALERT: Lawrenceville wildlife photographer Stewart Woodard sent this picture the other day. It’s a mallard duck and her seven ducklings taken in St. Augustine, Fla., when the chicks were only a few days old. From the expression and stare of this Mama Duck, you can bet you don’t want to mess with her and her brood. The green water is a reflection of trees on the other side of the pond.
TODAY’S FOCUS: What a great pre-Christmas holiday: visit New York City!
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Our Christmas season is brightened by its music
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Gwinnett College
ANOTHER VIEW: Is December 25th really the date of the birth of Christ?
FEEDBACK: Our nation has always had opposing factions
UPCOMING: GC&B seeks your live Christmas tree for chipping
NOTABLE: Gwinnett Place has $16 billion economic impact
CRITIC’S CORNER: Y’allmark CHRISTMAS at Horizon Theatre
RECOMMENDED: Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride by Marion Woodman
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Iconic Bob’s Candies of candy cane fame is no more
MYSTERY PHOTO: Where is this stained glass art located?
LAGNIAPPE: Lawrenceville DAR chapter marks national Wreaths Day
EDITOR’S NOTE: During the next few days, GwinnettForum will take time off for the holidays. GwinnettForum’s next issue will come to you in the new year, on January 2. —eeb
What a great pre-Christmas holiday: visit to New York City!
Zodiac Wheel decorations. Photos provided.
By Billy Chism
TOCCOA, Ga. | I have traveled to New York City several times since my first visit in 1979, but never during the Christmas season. My wife and I, along with a friend, made the trip on December 11-15.
Chism
New York City is the most populous city in the United States, with 8.5 million residents. Combine that with visitors from all over the world, most packed into Manhattan, and you’ve got something special.
Walking down Sixth Avenue, with all the glitter and bright decorations, was anadventure in itself. At crosswalks, I marveled at how hundreds of people going one way seamlessly merged into hundreds of people going the other way.
Decorations were magical in New York City.
We ate in nice restaurants – la bonne soupe, Del Frisco Grille, Becco, Tavern on the Green, Bryant Park Grill, Rampoldi. We stayed at The Warwick, a 38-story hotel.
On our first morning waking up in NYC, our doorman advised us to take the subway rather than a taxi to Battery Park, where we were scheduled to board a ferry at 9 a.m. for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. If you missed the ferry, another would depart in 20 minutes.
Patti and I had made the same ferry ride some 10 years ago, but our friend Laleah Henderson, who lives in Buckhead and has been a frequent visitor to NYC, had not.
Laleah Henderson and Patti Chism, friends since first grade, in front of The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center.
Not only did Laleah want to see the Statue of Liberty up close, she wanted to climb the stairs inside the statue leading to her crown. So we did, while Patti smartly took the elevator to the top of the base, where the copper statue is placed.
At the top of the base is a narrow walkway that wraps around all four sides. One
side offered us a fabulous view of lower Manhattan’s skyline. The sun shone
brightly across the water. Freedom Tower never looked better.
We saw a great play: Kimberly Akimbo, winner of five Tony Awards this year, including best new musical about a dysfunctional family. It’s a heartbreaker of a play but one of the funniest I’ve ever seen.
We also enjoyed Shucked, a popular new musical comedy set in Iowa. It was fun and rollicking. But Kimberly Akimbo is the show I can’t get off my mind. Talent abounded in each show.
Freedom Tower
Finally, we attended The Metropolitan Opera for the final performance of a Spanish opera, Florencia En El Amazonas. Subtitles in English allowed the audience to follow the story. What a way to end the week!
Between 1895 and 1916, more than 15 million people passed through this U.S. immigration processing center. Most of these “new immigrants” were from southern and eastern Europe. They and their ancestors became an important part of our nation.
Emma Lazarus, an immigrant herself, wrote a poem in 1883, which 20 years later was inscribed on a bronze plaque and placed near the base of Lady Liberty. The Statue itself had been unveiled in 1886.
The poem’s final words read: “Give me your tired, your poor. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tosst to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Was NYC better at Christmastime? Yes. Beyond the incredible decorations, everyone seemed to be in great spirits. There were smiles everywhere and lots of good cheer. Just like at home.
What a nice pre-Christmas holiday!
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Our Christmas season is brightened by its music
Editor’s Note: Much of the following first appeared in GwinnettForum in 2002. We revisit it during this holiday season. —eeb\
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
DEC. 22, 2023 | Christmas carols are a joy of the season. Ever think about how very diverse these songs are, coming from all parts of the Western world?
Many come from England, though other countries contribute their share.
O Little Town of Bethlehem is an English carol, with one arrangement by Ralph Vaughan Williams. O Come All Ye Faithful is also from England, as is It Came Upon the Midnight Clear.
While John Wesley wrote the words to Hark the Herald Angels Sing, the music came from another land, that of Felix Mendelssohn of Germany.
All are not quiet songs. The rollicking Go Tell It On the Mountain is attributed to Afro-American music. What a wonderful song of the season it is.
From France we get Angels We Have Heard on High, a traditional carol in that country. Another of our favorite carols, Noel, is also from France.
Silent Night, many know, has German origins.
Another of our favorites is Joy to the World. The words are from the pen of Isaac Watts, an Englishman, while the music is straight George Frederic Handel, from Germany.
Then there is Good King Wenceslas, which has it origins in Czechoslovakia. We love its peppy cadence.
One of the more moving carols, In the Bleak Mid-Winter, comes from the poetic works of Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), who was also English.
And we haven’t even begun to list the American Christmas songs, which often deal less with religious themes, and more with Santa, and good times. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (popularized by Gene Autry) is a favorite.
Perhaps the most famous classical Christmas work comes again from Handel, with his massive Messiah, with its famous Hallelujah Chorus, and its stirring ending: “King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and He shall reign forever and ever, Hallelujah!” (Revelation 19:16.) Click this link for the complete libretto of the Messiah. Though born in Germany, Handel blossomed as a composer and performer in England. The first performance of the Messiah was in Dublin in 1742.
Another of the reasons that the Handel Messiah is so wonderful is that while it is great music, every one of the words in the entire orchestration is taken directly from verses of the Bible. It is a monumental work, very scholarly besides being beautiful musically!
It is said that in London, King George II was so deeply stirred with the exultant music of Messiah that when the first “Hallelujah” rang through the hall, he rose to his feet and remained standing until the last note of the chorus echoed through the house. From this began the custom of the audience standing for the Hallelujah chorus.
In the last 10 years of his life, Handel regularly gave performances of the Messiah, usually with about 16 singers and an orchestra of about 40, to benefit a charity, the Foundling Hospital in London, established in 1739. It’s said that Handel could have made a financial killing from the Messiah, but instead he designated that all the proceeds would go to charities.
The Christmas music cheers us this time of year. We hope you and your family have a most Merry Christmas!
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Is December 25th really the date of the birth of Christ?
By Raleigh Perry
BUFORD, Ga. | Is December 25th really the birthday of Jesus Christ?
Perry
Probably not. There is nothing in the Scriptures concerning the actual birthday of Jesus Christ. The birth came well before December 25th became the “data” of Christ’s birthday. It may seem a bit strange to you and might really cause you to call me absolutely wrong. If you read about the birth of Christ in the book in Luke 2:8-12, it states that the shepherds were in the fields with their flocks. Christmas, or just winter, even in Israel, is a bit cold. The shepherds would not have their flocks in the fields.
At the time of Christ, it is true that the Christians were thrown to the lions or other vicious animals where they would be killed. However, there was a plethora of other “Miracle Religions” at the same time. Christianity is, in fact, a “Mystery Religion.”
The persecution of Christians really happened, but the persecution of the others took place also. The main problem was that each of these many other religions, along with Christianity, were all small in number. The only way to stop the persecutions, many of them, combined with Christianity, was more for the purposes of making the groups bigger in an attempt to stop the persecutions.
Of these other religions was one that was basically the religion of most Roman soldiers. That was Mithraism. The decision of these various religions to combine became a reality.
Mithraism was also a relatively large group but not large enough to escape or avoid persecution. Mithraism had a particularly weird initiation that the Roman soldiers had to go through. Basically, they were to stand in a pit that had a large iron grate over it. A bull would be placed on the grate and was slaughtered which made the blood go through the grate covering the soldiers with blood. I would equate that with the Christian concept of “Washed in the blood of the lamb,” but I would not swear about that.
Part of their religion involved the birthday of Mithra and that birthday was December 25. It was agreed to by the Christians that they would adopt that date also. According to Wikipedia, “the date was first asserted officially by Pope Julius I in 350 AD, although this claim is dubious or otherwise unfounded.” Actually, though, the birthday of Mithra is the date accepted by Pope Julius I. That suggests that it was over 300 years after the birth of Christ that the birthday was “established.”
Although that date was accepted it was not the only thing accepted by the Christians. That was a belief of other “Mystery Religions.”
December 25 was also celebrated by the Romans’ religion as their celebration of Saturnalia, a date on which the Romans exchanged gifts and feasted, so there were precursors to the date accepted today as December 25. While the Roman Mithraites were the soldiers of the men in the military, the females worshiped the Great Mother Earth goddess and were not allowed in Mithraism. As a matter of fact, both Christmas and Easter are on, or about, seasonal changes. This is true for all of the other gods, and gods I have not mentioned.
Putting all these studies together, Christ may not have been born in December. But that really is unimportant. The key point is that he was born, lived 33 years, was killed and rose from the dead to sit at the right hand of God.
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Our nation has always had opposing factions
Editor, the Forum:
GwinnettForum recently had an item about the Finger Lakes of New York. I love the Finger Lakes region: we’ve been there several times over the years. It is also noteworthy that those lands were anything but unoccupied. The Native American history of that region is fascinating and quite complicated as well, during the colonial period, after the Revolution, and really all the way through the War of 1812.
Now a brief thought about our nation being divided: the historical fact is that the USA has always been somewhat divided and always had opposing factions from the very beginning of our country. That is how a democratic republic works; differing philosophies of government compete with each other. This of course is why the rest of the world thought our form of government would not survive.
Division (as long as it is peaceful) is not a bad thing when it comes to how we think our government should function. The only way to eliminate outward division is through absolute monarchy or totalitarian dictatorship…. Surely no one wants that.
– Darrell Pruitt, Sugar Hill
Dear Darrell: First, yes the Finger Lakes area is alive and most fascinating, and important in our history. And yes, we’ve always seen division in politics, but never so mean and vicious as we now feel it is now. Credit that to unchecked opinion through social media, throw in hero worship, and look where we are today!—eeb
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GC&B seeks your live Christmas tree for chipping
With the help of its partners at Jackson EMC, Walton EMC, and the Gwinnett County Departments of Transportation, Parks and Recreation and Fire, Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful GC&B) will collect live trees between December 26, 2023 and January 24, 2024 at select fire stations throughout the county. They will then be transported to Lawrenceville’s Bethesda Park for Bring One for the Chipper 2024 on Saturday, January 27, 2024.
Schelly Marlatt, executive director of GC&B, emphasizes: “Bring One for the Chipper has become an annual tradition for countless families – whether dropping off their trees, volunteering at the event, or both. While the collection of trees is a service that we are honored to offer our neighbors throughout Gwinnett County, we’re happy to open it up to other metro Atlantans who happen to be in the area with their live Christmas trees in tow. The main purpose of this undertaking is to divert as many live Christmas trees from the landfill as possible. Instead of decomposing slowly, they will find a new, immediate purpose of beautifying our local parks, enhancing their enjoyment by our local residents and visitors – young and old.”
- To be accepted for treecycling, live Christmas trees must be free of lights, tinsel, decorations, and tree stands. Artificial trees will not be accepted.
Gwinnett Place has $16 billion economic impact
Gwinnett Place continues to generate significant public revenues for Gwinnett County, the county’s school system and the entire state. The findings of a recent economic impact study show that Gwinnett Place had an annual economic impact of $15.9 billion – jumping $2.5 billion in just three years and a whopping $6.4 billion increase from 2017 – all with a primarily vacant property that continues to lose value each year in the heart of the district. The study was conducted by KB Advisory Group and presented to the Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District (CID) Board of Directors during its recent meeting.
Jonathan Gelber, vice president of KB Advisory Group, says: “This economic impact analysis clearly demonstrates that Gwinnett Place continues to be the economic engine of Gwinnett County – creating a combined public benefit of $199.2 million in annual recurring public revenues. We believe that if Gwinnett County can begin the transformation of the former Gwinnett Place Mall site into the Global Villages concept that Gwinnett County and the community envisioned earlier this year, the economic impact of the area would grow exponentially,” he added.
The full report includes statistics about demographics and population, area employment, economic activity, education, real estate and more. The report highlights include:
- The Gwinnett Place area accounts for 28,688 workers, which is seven percent of all Gwinnett County jobs on less than one percent of Gwinnett’s land.
- The Gwinnett Place area includes 2,054 companies with $2.1 billion in payroll and $7.5 billion in sales.
- The Gwinnett Place area is responsible for $199.2 million in annual recurring public revenues.
- The area includes 220 restaurants that sell $102 million in retail food and beverage sales.
- Almost 10 percent of the county’s office inventory resides within the Gwinnett Place area.
- Across various commercial types, the Gwinnett Place area supports higher average rents than the county overall.
- Office rental rates within the Gwinnett Place area over the past decade have remained higher than the county overall.
- The industrial and flex space within the Gwinnett Place area has higher rents than the county overall.
A fifth of the county’s inventory of hotel rooms is concentrated in the Gwinnett Place area.
Gwinnett Place’s retail sector dominates the community with more than 8.4 million square feet of retail space, over 8,000 jobs (or almost 30 percent of the area’s total jobs) – generating $749.5 million in retail products. Accommodation and food services comprise the second largest sector with almost 4,800 jobs. Professional, scientific and technical services jobs continue to be well-represented in the Gwinnett Place area, with over 3,100 jobs, which represents 10% of all such jobs in Gwinnett County. 11% of the county’s jobs in real estate and management are concentrated in this area. The Gwinnett Place area’s workers continue to mirror the diversity within Gwinnett County.
Explore Gwinnett honors hospitality partners
Explore Gwinnett honored several of its hospitality leaders at its annual awards event, hosted at the Gas South Convention Center recently. The event was also organized as a donation drive, resulting in more than 4,500 items collected to benefit the Michael Steven Powell Legacy Fund.
The hospitality partners recognized at the event included:
- Outstanding Sports Partner: Shannon Butler, Special Event Operations Coordinator, Gwinnett Stripers;
- Outstanding Hospitality Partner: Wendi Lucas, Sales Manager, Main Event Entertainment;
- Outstanding Hospitality Partner: David Sukala, Director of Sales and Marketing, Sonesta Gwinnett Place Atlanta;
- Outstanding Hospitality Partner: Kevin Priger, Senior Sales Manager, Hilton Atlanta Northeast; and
- Outstanding Community Partner: Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation.
Gwinnett’s hospitality community participated in Explore Gwinnett’s annual hospitality industry charity drive. The 2023 recipient was the Michael Steven Powell Legacy Fund, which was created by Casey and Marcia Powell to honor their son, Michael, who passed away in 2022. This non-profit is committed to supporting local charities and chooses a local charity each month to support.
Y’allmark CHRISTMAS at Horizon Theatre
From Jane Wroton, Duluth: Narrated and directed by Hallmark Channel screenwriter, Topher Payne, this production is a delightful takeoff on the predictable ‘romance during the holidays’ Hallmark movies. With a rotating cast of four quick-thinking actors and a musical improviser, the director engages the audience, incorporating their suggestions to create a new show each performance. This night’s theme: ‘Royal Romance’: Princess Angela of Chestnutvania travels by gondola to America, landing in the small Southern town of Honeybaked Hamburg. She meets Warren G. Harding, hometown hunk and official gingerbread train car baker for the Gingerbread Pinecone Wreath Express Relay Extravaganza. When Warren’s bakery mysteriously burns down, Angela helps solve the mystery, substitutes tortillas for gingerbread, and saves the Christmas relay. Warren declares his love for Angela, accompanying her to Chestnutvania to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a gondolier. Tickets through December 30 at horizontheatre.com.
Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride, by Marion Woodman
From Karen J. Harris, Stone Mountain: Marion Woodman’s Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride is a psychological study about breaking the tie to the evil anima that stymie feminine individuation. Lady Macbeth and Medusa are examples of the type of personas that paralyze the spirit and induce rituals around success, goal orientation, and intellectual excellence thus undermining creativity, and interpersonal receptivity. While the former are laudable attributes, if they are not balanced, the result is one-sided functionality that is unproductive and spiritual deadening. The chapter headings outline the topics explored. Included are Ritual: Sacred and Demonic, Through Thick and Thin, Addiction to Perfecting and the Ravished Bride; meaning the woman who has accepted the dark and light aspects of her own consciousness. It is from that space spiritual and psychological healing occurs.
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Iconic Bob’s Candies of candy cane fame is no more
In the 1920s a cherubic child in a red-and-white hat hawked the quintessential Christmas treat—the peppermint candy cane—to Albany natives in an advertisement for a local candy company.
Some 60 years later, that family-owned company, known as Bobs Candies, commemorated its place in the national candy and snack-food world by producing the world’s largest candy cane, an eight-foot-long crook that weighed more than 100 pounds. In 2005 the company’s founding family, the McCormacks, decided to sell the organization to a larger, diversified candy manufacturer in order to keep the family legacy alive.
The candy company began in 1919, when Bob McCormack, an investor based in Birmingham, Ala., visited Albany and decided that it would be a good location for a candy business. Helped by other investors back in Birmingham, McCormack started producing sticks of candy for his Famous Candy Company. McCormack married and had three children, the oldest of whom, Anna Louise, was the child in his advertisements.
The company continued to grow with such new lines as hard candy and taffy. McCormack and fellow investor Bob Mills soon bought out the other backers, and in 1924 they changed the name of the company to Bobs’ Candy Company. (The apostrophe was later dropped.) Bobs, which moved to a larger facility in the 1930s so that it could expand its product lines, was one of the few candy companies to remain solvent during the Great Depression.
As the economy began to improve in 1940, Americans began purchasing more candies and snacks. But it wasn’t long before Bob’s Candy’s fortunes were reversed. A tornado hit Albany’s business district on February 10, 1940, killing 17 people and causing an estimated $9 million in storm losses. The Bobs building was among those leveled, and because the company had no tornado insurance, it had to rebuild on its own.
By August 1940 the company was back in business and employed McCormack’s three children. During World War II (1941-45), when sugar was rationed, coconuts were in short supply, and pecans were expensive, Bobs took advantage of a plentiful local product—the peanut—and sold peanut-butter crackers and vacuum-packed peanuts.
During the 1950s, Bobs began making money with such innovations as break-proof packaging, moisture-proof candy wrappers, and the Keller Machine, which twisted and cut the company’s scrapped bits of stick candy into pieces that could be sold. In 1956 the company’s name changed to Bobs Candies, and by 1958 the Keller Machine was perfected and able to mass produce the popular hooked candy cane.
By the end of the 1950s Bobs was producing 1.8 million sticks of candy each day and had national sales of $3.3 million. In early 1963 Bob McCormack Sr. stepped down, promoting his son to president of the company. McCormack Sr. died in 1967 before he could see the company’s new facilities, which opened in 1968 and included a climate-controlled storage area.
Over the next two decades, other McCormacks joined the family company, and in 1988 McCormack Sr.’s grandson Greg succeeded his father as company president. In spring 2005 the McCormacks sold the company to Farley’s and Sathers Candy Company, a large distributor that manages such major candy brands as Now and Later, Jujyfruits, and Super Bubble. Farley’s and Sathers shut down all of Bobs Candies’ Albany operations by the end of 2005.
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Where is this stained glass art located?
Granted, this Mystery Photo may be a difficult one. You can probably guess the subject, but where is this stained-glass art located? Find your answer, then send to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
Kay Montgomery of Duluth identified the last mystery: “This piece of public art is in Antwerp, Belgium. It represents the love and friendship between dogs and children, and shows Nello and Patrasche, the heroes of the 19th-century novel, A Dog of Flanders, sleeping under a cobblestone blanket.” The photo came from the lens of John Fennell of Atlanta, via Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill.
Also identifying the mystery were Angela Streetman of Flowery Branch; Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; Stew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; Lisa Parrish, Cumming; Deborah Allen, Hoschton; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex., who added: “The story of Nello and Patrache is one of setbacks and emotions. But also one with a very universal message: Friendship conquers all, even beyond death. I think that today’s mystery photo is most appropriate as we approach Christmas, as it is a reminder to all of us of the pain, suffering and losses that so many in the world are experiencing today, especially in Israel, Gaza, Ukraine and Russia.”
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Lawrenceville DAR chapter marks national Wreaths Day
On National Wreaths Across America Day, December 16, the Philadelphia Winn Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR), held their fifth annual wreath ceremony at East Shadowlawn Memorial Gardens in Lawrenceville as one of 4,225 participating locations nationwide and abroad.
The mission of Wreaths Across America is to REMEMBER our fallen U.S. veterans, HONOR those who serve, and TEACH the next generation the value of freedom. Individuals of all ages could lay a fresh balsam wreath on a veteran’s grave and say their name out loud in remembrance and honor of their service and sacrifice. These wreaths were provided by sponsorships and shipped from Maine to each ceremony location.
The guest speaker for the ceremony was Gwinnett County Commissioner Jasper Watkins III, a United States Army lieutenant colonel (retired) who served in the military for 25 years. Commissioner Watkins spoke on the importance of remembering our veterans and shared stories of his childhood as the son of a veteran.
The Button Gwinnett Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution (SAR), and Compatriots from the Georgia State Society SAR Color Guard and Militia were in attendance for the presentation of colors, a gunpowder three-musket volley, and TAPS. Additional local organizations included the Elisha Winn Society, Children of the American Revolution (C.A.R.), the Georgia State Society C.A.R., the Parkview High School Marines JROTC Cadets, the Lawrenceville Women’s Club, the Lilburn Women’s Club, the Knights of Columbus, Phi Omicron Zeta chapter of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, numerous Boy and Girl Scout Troops, the American Legion, and the VFW.
The sixth annual Wreaths Across America ceremony will be held on Saturday, December 14, 2024.
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