Today’s mystery asks two questions: what is it, and where is it? It may push you to answer these questions. Send your answer to ebrack2@gmail.com, and list your hometown!
Only four readers recognized the last Mystery Photo, a tough one with conflicting clues. Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. gave a complete report:
“Today’s mystery photo may be recognizable by Agatha Christie aficionados, as it is the Princess Gardens located on the seafront of Christie’s home town of Torquay, a coastal town in Devon, England.
The Princess Gardens is a Victorian-style public garden with a lawn surrounded by colorful flower beds laid out using the fleur-de-lys patterns. It has an ornate, three-tiered cast-iron fountain in the center and Torbay palm trees, all imported from New Zealand, scattered about the gardens. First opened in 1894, the gardens were named after Princess Louise (1848 – 1939), the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria (1819 – 1901).
The foundation stone for the garden was laid by Princess Louise in May 1890, just 4-months before Agatha Christie was born.
Having been born and raised in Torquay, Agatha Christie (1890 – 1976) would frequently visit the Princess Gardens. She even featured the gardens in her acclaimed 1936 fictional mystery book “The ABC Murders” in which Detective Hercule Poirot is racing against time in a cat-and-mouse chase across Britain, trying to stop the serial killer known as “A.B.C.” before the murderer stages his next crime.”
The photo was taken by Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill. Also recognizing the photo were Stew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; and Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.
Catch-Up: The person we failed to mention sending in the previous photo of Juliette, Ga. was Kay Montgomery of Duluth.
- 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: ebrack2@gmail.com and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
DAR chapter holds Flag Day celebration
On June 15, citizens and dignitaries from Gwinnett organizations gathered at VFW Post 5255 in Lawrenceville to celebrate the 247th anniversary of the adoption of the “Stars and Stripes” as the official Flag of the United States of America. It was the 13th Annual Gwinnett Flag Day Ceremony, organized by the Philadelphia Winn chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The National Anthem was performed by the Up Front Quartet (far left) while Georgia State Society SAR Color Guard presented colors (center) and Boy Scouts from Troops 50, 81, 231, and 506 (far right) stand at attention and salute the American Flag. (Photo by Boon Vong). Below, Boy Scouts Joshua Stoesen, Aiden Haskell, Caden Kaczenski, Connor Dunn, and Liam Dannemiller demonstrate the proper way to fold the American Flag. (Photos by Boon Vong.)
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