GwinnettForum | Number 21.73 | Sept. 21, 2021
YOU DON’T SEE ACTIVITIES like this much more, that of a Goat Show, where children have spent weeks on end taking care of and grooming their animals. Roving Photographer Frank Sharp shot this photograph this last week of the 66th Gwinnett County Fair, going on at the Fairgrounds in Lawrenceville through Sunday. The loss of livestock shows comes as farming and livestock raising are no longer as important as they once were in Georgia.
Downtown Duluth is amazing! So, come next week and see for yourself during the Duluth Fall Festival, on September 24-26. Enjoy our deluxe, FREE bus service! We have ten large air conditioned buses that run from Duluth Middle School on Pleasant Hill Road, Chattahoochee Elementary School on Albion Farm, and Mason Elementary School on Bunten Road. They will pick you up at these locations and deliver you to Coleman Middle School in the heart of the Festival. That’s the only way to go! We hope to see you there! duluthfallfestival.org.
TODAY’S FOCUS: USA could stand a return of a Richard Nixon likeness
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Computer chip shortage and a story about electricity
ANOTHER VIEW: White terrorism didn’t start at Capitol on January 6, 2021
SPOTLIGHT: PCOM Georgia
FEEDBACK: Not surprised at anything; expect all matters to get worse
UPCOMING: Atlanta Music Club to award $33,000 in scholarships
NOTABLE: Summerour family history is subject of forthcoming book
OBITUARIES: Gloria Hayes
RECOMMENDATION: Folklore and the Sea by Horace Beck
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Largest military battle in state was at Chickamauga in 1863
MYSTERY PHOTO: Tell us where you think this covered bridge is located
CALENDAR:Norcross Art Fest and Elisha Winn Fair will both be October 2-3
USA could stand a return of a Richard Nixon likeness
President Nixon, via Wikipedia.
By Terry Swaim
AUBURN, Ga. | Where is the likeness of President Richard Nixon when you need him?
Abigail (7), Reilly (11) and Terry Swaim are out in their hunting gear.
That’s right, I said it President Richard M. Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. He was also vice president of President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961.
When you think of Richard Nixon, what do you think of? Watergate, right? Resigning in shame?
When Nixon won the Presidency in 1968, some historians would say that our nation was as divided as it had been since the civil war. This was the decade during the height of the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the anti-war movement, the Cold War, Cuban Missile crisis, and the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.
Nixon, after narrowly losing to JFK in 196, then in 1968, he portrayed himself as a figure of stability during a period of national unrest and turmoil. Nixon was inaugurated on January 20, 1969. In his inaugural address he stated, “…the greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.” This phrase would later be etched in his gravestone. He went on to say in the address, “In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words; from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading. We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another, until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices” Does it ring true today?
Among problems Nixon tackled during his presidency was school integration, as 80 percent of the schools in the south remained segregated. Nixon’s position to enforce the Brown vs Board of education ruling was that integration “should take place with all deliberate speed”, but rather than the federal government forcing the matter it would be left up to the bi-racial communities in each of the states. He accomplished this by arranging the representative stakeholders from all sides to meet, to talk, and hash things out. When they got close to an agreement, they would be brought to the Oval office. President Nixon would remind them of the historic magnitude of their decisions they were making for their country. The plan worked. In 1969, 600,000 African Americans attended desegregated schools in the south. Wow, talking it out and meeting in the middle. What a novel concept!
Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency and strengthened the Clean Air Act. Other notable achievements came in the area of world stability, foreign affairs, civil rights, economic policies and notably ending the Vietnam War. He accomplished much, often against his own political interests.
Nixon during turbulent times charted a “centrist” course on policies representing who he called “The Silent Majority”. He did this by focusing what he believed in a sense of duty, common decency, hard work and the greatness of America. Did the American people agree? I think so. In the 1972 election, he won one of the biggest landslide victories in American history, winning 49 of 50 states.
Will we return to the day when a leader can have the majority of Americans agree with their leadership? I think we can, and will, but it will take a true leader in every sense of the word. We need a figure like Richard Milhous Nixon now more than ever (minus the Watergate).
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Computer chip shortage and a story about electricity
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
SEPT. 21, 2021 | Computer chips, we hear, are in short supply. It’s particularly hitting the auto industry hard, as some manufacturers have had to cut production because of a shortage of chips, including the Kia assembly plant in West Point, Ga.
But last week we found other shortages, where you might not expect them. Shopping for a replacement sports coat, what? Two places had none of the standard jackets in our size, which is not an unpopular size.
Then on a trip to a home supply store, we were instructed to get a particular Zep window
cleaner. When we got to where the item was stocked before, no cleaner. We also found our local supermarket didn’t have some items we wanted, included being out of Mother Geraldine’s Cheese Straws. (They’re good, are produced in Jasper, Ga., and the plant is the world leader in making cheese straws.)
Don’t think any of these local shortages we found are because of computer chips. But you never know. Yep, still jacket shopping.
Sunday 101 years ago (1920) Roger Angell was born in New York City, and became well known for writing essays on nothing less than baseball, in addition to his other writings. (His mother was Katherine White, herself an editor at The New Yorker, while his stepfather was E.B. White, author of Charlotte’s Web, who was co-author with William Strunk The Elements of Style.)
Roger took writing about baseball seriously. He was good, and is the only person elected to both the Baseball Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Note his use of the language in this paragraph about the national game:
“It is foolish and childish, on the face of it, to affiliate ourselves with anything so insignificant and patently contrived and commercially exploitative as a professional sports team, and the amused superiority and icy scorn that the non-fan directs at the sports nut […] is understandable and almost unanswerable. Almost. What is left out of this calculation, it seems to me, is the business of caring — caring deeply and passionately, really caring — which is a capacity or an emotion that has almost gone out of our lives. […] It no longer matters so much what the caring is about, how frail or foolish is the object of that concern, as long as the feeling itself can be saved. Naïveté — the infantile and ignoble joy that sends a grown man or woman to dancing and shouting with joy in the middle of the night over the haphazardous flight of a distant ball — seems a small price to pay for such a gift.”
Angell made an art out of writing about baseball!
Out of the mouth of babes: We heard this story this week of a mother driving her three year old, strapped into a car seat in the back seat. The youngster asked: “Mommie, what are those wires I can see at the top of those poles?”
The mother answers: “Those are the wires that bring electricity to us from the electric plants.”
The youngster was quiet for a while, then wondered: “Mommie, can we get some electric plants for our backyard?”
Then there are other babes. Mae West once was quoted: “I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”
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White terrorism didn’t start at Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021
By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist
“The blood of four little children … is on your hands. Your irresponsible and misguided actions have created in Birmingham and Alabama the atmosphere that has induced continued violence and now murder.”– telegram from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr to Gov. George Wallace, 1963.
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. | White terrorism didn’t start on Jan. 6, 2021, with the storming of our Nation’s Capitol.
On Sunday Sept.15, 1963, four United Klans of America members bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Four young black girls (11-14 years old) were killed and over a dozen more people were seriously injured, including more children.
Amazingly, it took until 1977 — 14 years — before anyone was convicted of the crime. Even then, it was just one man. It wasn’t until 2001, 38 years later, that a second man was found guilty and a third in 2002. In 2002, a fourth perpetrator was found to be mentally incompetent because of dementia to stand trial.
Why did it take nearly 40 years for these men to be brought to justice? Why didn’t the United States take the threat from the right seriously back then? Why does it continue to ignore the right-wing extremist threat now, focusing instead on foreign sources to the exclusion of domestic extremists?
In October 2020 under President Donald Trump’s term, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a report regarding the greatest threat to our homeland. It wasn’t a threat from foreign groups. The greatest source of continuing terrorism is from domestic extremists.
Specifically, the DHS Homeland Threat Assessment (HTA) looked at all types of threats- cyber, foreign, economic, and domestic. Per the HTA, “Ideologically motivated lone offenders and small groups pose the most likely terrorist threat to the Homeland, with Domestic Violent Extremists presenting the most persistent and lethal threat.”
The HTA further indicated that “extremist” social media was feeding this trend towards violence. And that these violent extremists “might target events related to the 2020 Presidential campaigns, the election itself, election results, or the post-election period.” Such actors could mobilize quickly to threaten or engage in violence, “including traveling to conflict zones” because of “anti-government/anti-authority violent extremism.”
So, why weren’t our law enforcement agencies prepared for the insurrection of January 6? Just three months before, the Department of Homeland Security told them that it could happen. The media certainly knew, as reported in several journals.
Based on substantial evidence, there is a built-in bias on the part of our law enforcement agencies. For example, look at how Kyle Rittenhouse, militia murderer of two protesters in Kenosha, Wis., was treated versus Black Life Matters supporters. Rittenhouse walked right by police with his rifle, although bystanders were yelling to law enforcement that he had just shot three unarmed men. He hasn’t been tried yet and is still a free man.
Unless we take steps to change the culture of our law enforcement agencies at all levels, getting them to see the right-wing extremists as the major threat to democracy that they are, I can see little change.
Meanwhile, the Federal Bureau of Intelligence statistics on hate crimes continue to rise. And the white supremist terrorists who attacked our Capitol are seen as heroes by a misguided but large minority of our population.
It is only a matter of time until we see the next mass murder of people of color in a church by white power extremists. This is foretold, unless we make a concentrated effort to gradually change our law enforcement agencies into what they should be.
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Not surprised at anything; expect all matters to get worse
About Gwinnett being Waffle-ized: I’m not surprised by anything anymore. We are a country at war with itself. Either side will do what they can , because they can. I’ve watched talking heads on television wish the worst on people who resist vaccinations or Trump supporters. Those aren’t necessarily the same group.
No, not even law prevents the actions. Courts are overflowing with cases as each side seeks aid in stopping the other. Americans are feeding on each other. Europe is writing articles comparing the U.S. to England after World War I and the great Churchill speeches. She was tired and bankrupt from the war. The Commonwealth had rallied, but was spent. Virus only made the pain exponentially worse. The empire was finished. In 1920, “I Vow to Thee My Country” was first performed publicly on Remembrance Day. It depicted the end of the empire.
We’ve descended into an internal war that may destroy our republic. Passions have left ethics on the sidelines. Trust is shattered. Expect things to get much worse.
— Byron Gilbert, Duluth
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Atlanta Music Club to award $33,000 in scholarships in March
The Atlanta Music Club sponsors an annual Scholarship Competition for Georgia’s music students. The competition awards several scholarships paid directly to the student’s choice of a university music program or a summer music camp at the high school, undergraduate and graduate level.. The next competition will be held on March 26, 2022, at Ray Charles Performing Arts Center in Morehouse College.
You may click here for the application form. Deadline for applications is Feb. 26, 2022. The number of applications is limited to 60 applications, accepted on a first come, first serve basis. A non-refundable $40 fee must accompany the application.
- Awards for piano scholarships are made possible because of the generosity of the late Elizabeth Abbott Taylor.
- Awards for instrumental and voice scholarships are through the generosity of the late Ruth Carter and the late Emily Grigsby.
Thanks to the recent endowments received for music student scholarships, a total of $33,000 will be awarded in 2022 to students. This is an $18,000 increase from last year. Details, guidelines, and application form are found under the scholarship page on this website (www.atlantamusicclub.org). Awards are as much as $5,000 for first place winners.
Hudgens Center plans 40th anniversary celebration Oct. 16
The Hudgens Center for Art and Learning will host its eighth annual fundraising gala, pARTy Like It’s 1981, on Saturday, October 16, 2021, from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Center in the Gas South District, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway in Duluth.
There will also be an After-pARTy event from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. This year’s Hudgens pARTy will celebrate the Center’s 40th anniversary with an 80’s-inspired evening of cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, dinner, dancing, live auction, and interactive fun from 1981. Proceeds benefit The Hudgens Center for Art and Learning’s education and outreach initiatives, as well as capital improvements to ensure the future of Gwinnett’s premiere destination for arts and culture.
Dress is Semi-formal. Tickets are $150 while the after-pARTy tickets are $50. For tickets and sponsorship information, visit us online at TheHudgens.org/pARTy, or contact Laura Ballance at 770-623-6002 or lballance@thehudgens.org.
Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful, Coalition team to help vets
With Veterans Day just around the corner on November 11, Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful is teaming up with the Gwinnett Coalition to support local veterans during Great Days of Service 2021. Between September 21 and October 21, the eco-centric, community-focused nonprofit will collect items at One Justice Square Building in Lawrenceville to benefit the Gwinnett Veterans Resource Center (GVRC). The Gwinnett Coalition’s GVRC seeks to meet the needs of veterans and their military families by providing information, referrals, and resources in a welcoming environment that honors their service and sacrifice to our country.
Schelly Marlatt, executive director of Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful says: “The recent evacuation from Kabul and the heartbreaking loss of 13 young service members served as a stark reminder that our active-duty military and veterans are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for us and our allies. Great Days of Service is a wonderful time for our organization to join together with our neighbors throughout Gwinnett County to say thank you for their service, sacrifice and selflessness through the provision of items our local veterans desperately need.”
Among the items Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful will be collecting in September and October are bottled water; hand sanitizer; non-perishable microwavable meals; plastic cutlery; travel size lotion, shampoo, conditioner and body wash; and other personable items.
The items listed above can be dropped off at One Justice Square Building – located at 446 West Crogan Street in Lawrenceville, between 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays beginning September 21. Or donors may call 770- 822-5187 to have donations collected curbside. GC&B asks that anyone who wishes to have their donation collected curbside should call to schedule a time and date or call 30 minutes in advance of their arrival if dropping off the same day.
Summerour family history is subject of forthcoming book
Germany to Georgia is a forthcoming book from the perspective of the eighth generation author and follows the trails of the Summerour family from its origin in Germany to Duluth. The author is Charles Summerour of Duluth.
The narrative includes the Summerour arrival in the British colony of Pennsylvania in 1748, its pioneer settlement of North Carolina, and eventually locating in Georgia. Told in a series of stories and family genealogy, the journey includes a venture into the gold rushes in Georgia and California, which resulted in an accumulation of wealth that would make the Summerours large landowners in what is now suburban Atlanta.
History reveals a sustaining love for family along with a spirit of cooperation with government entities and friends and neighbors. The story tells of the eventual transition from an agrarian based lifestyle to a broad-based living for the latter generations, including the children and grandchildren of the author.
The book has 133 pages, with 23 photographs. The release date has yet to be determined. The full title will be: Germany to Georgia: Ten Generations of an American Family.
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Gloria Hayes
Mrs. Gloria Ann Hayes, age 90, of Braselton passed away Saturday, September 18, 2021 at Northeast Georgia Medical Center – Braselton, surrounded by her family. The family will have a Private Service due to the wishes of Mrs. Hayes, as she was concerned for her family and friends’ safety during the Covid pandemic.
Mrs. Hayes
Mrs. Hayes was born November 14, 1930 to the late James Wesley Ellis, Sr. and Martha Elizabeth Freeman Ellis in Atlanta and was a member of Hoschton Seventh Day Adventist Church. Also, a past member of the Georgia-Florida Charolais Association, she and her late husband were the owners of Double A Ranch.
Mrs. Hayes worked with Hayes Chrysler as the Secretary and Treasurer for 40 years, from the beginning of Hayes Automotive Service in 1953 until her retirement in 1993. After retiring, she began the hobby of painting and pottery, gardening and spending time with her grandchildren.
Mrs. Hayes is survived by her children, Michael David and Sherry Hayes of Hoschton; Albert Terry and Sandra Hayes of Baldwin; and Tim Ellis and Carolyn Hayes of Gainesville; grandchildren, Chad, Jeremy, Tracey, Matt and Tyler; great-grandchildren, Molly, Ellie, Adam, Cooper, Trevor Lauren, Bryan, AJ, Cassidy and Brooke; brother and sister-in-law, James Wesley and Billie Ellis, Jr. of Suwanee; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, Albert David “A.D.” Hayes in 2009; parents; and sister, Betty Turner.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Heart Association, 1101 Northchase Parkway, Marietta, Ga., 30067, www.heart.org. Memorial Park South Funeral Home, 4121 Falcon Parkway, Flowery Branch, Ga, 30542 is in charge of arrangements. Send online condolences to www.memorialparkfuneralhomes.com.
Folklore and the Sea by Horace Beck
From Raleigh Perry, Buford: The smell of saltwater lures sailors far and near. There is something that happens in the mind of a sailor when he exits a port for places unknown. There are some aspects that either never change or change very little and that is the folklore of the sea. There was change as the ships turned from wood to steel, but the language of sailors of old are prevalent on today’s ships. The tricks that we play on newbies today are the same as those of yesteryear. Once navigation was by the stars, then came the compass, but there was also dead reckoning. The binnacle has been deep-sixed and replaced by GPS so there is no more adjusting the compensation balls to make sure your compass is set right. Horace Beck has a PhD and has written other books on maritime folklore, but, more importantly, he is also a sailor.
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State’s largest military battle was at Chickamauga in 1863
Library of Congress.
The Battle of Chickamauga, the biggest battle ever fought in Georgia, took place on September 18-20, 1863, during the Civil War (1861-65). With 34,000 casualties, it is generally accepted as the second bloodiest engagement of the war; only the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, with 51,000 casualties, was deadlier.
The campaign that brought the Union and Confederate armies to Chickamauga began in late June 1863, when the Union Army of the Cumberland under Major General William S. Rosecrans advanced southeastward from Murfreesboro, Tenn., against the Confederate Army of Tennessee, commanded by General Braxton Bragg. Rosecrans’s goal was to capture the city of Chattanooga, an important rail junction and gateway to the Deep South. Through a series of successful and relatively bloodless turning movements, Rosecrans’s army forced Bragg’s troops to abandon middle Tennessee and fall back to Chattanooga.
Bragg subsequently deployed most of his troops at crossings of the Tennessee River northeast of Chattanooga, where he expected Rosecrans to attack.
Instead, on August 29, 1863, the Union soldiers crossed the Tennessee River at several points west and southwest of Chattanooga. The Army of the Cumberland, numbering almost 60,000 men, then advanced southeastward in three widely separated columns over the rough mountain and valley terrain of northeast Alabama and northwest Georgia in an attempt to threaten Bragg’s railroad supply line. When Bragg learned of the enemy threat to his rear, he abandoned Chattanooga on September 9 and retreated southward, even though Confederate reinforcements had arrived from Mississippi and East Tennessee.
As his army passed through LaFayette, Ga., Bragg learned of the widely scattered condition of the Union army and planned an offensive movement against portions of the Union force. During the second week of September, he had several chances to destroy isolated portions of the Union army, but command dissension resulted in several bungled attempts to punish the enemy. At the same time, Rosecrans began ordering a concentration of his troops, realizing that the three isolated corps of his army were in danger.
By September 17, two of Rosecrans’s corps were reunited and were moving north toward Lee and Gordon’s Mill on Chickamauga Creek to join the third Union corps. Bragg believed that the Union troops at Lee and Gordon’s Mill constituted the northernmost elements of Rosecrans’s force. Thus he developed a battle plan to cross Chickamauga Creek north of the mill and drive the Union troops southwestward back against the mountains and away from Chattanooga.
Chickamauga was an extremely costly battle for both armies. Rosecrans lost more than 16,000 men killed, wounded, and missing, while Bragg’s army of roughly 68,000 men sustained more than 18,000 casualties. While the battle was considered a Confederate victory because it pushed the Union army back to Chattanooga rather than letting it proceed into Georgia (it would be the next year before the Union army tried again), Rosecrans achieved his objective for the campaign, the capture of Chattanooga. Union troops did have to be pulled from Virginia and Mississippi to reinforce Rosecrans’s besieged army in Chattanooga, but otherwise the staggering losses sustained in both field armies produced few immediate tangible results
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia article online, go to https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Tell us where you think this covered bridge is located
Okay, we’ll admit it. We’re suckers for covered bridges and lighthouses, as you can tell from previous mysteries. So where is this bridge located? Send your answers to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
Lynn Naylor of Norcross was first in with the identification of the Mystery Photo last week. She recognized the circular walk up to Clingman’s Dome Observation Tower at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. At 6,643 feet, Clingman’s Dome is the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is the highest point in Tennessee, and the third highest mountain east of the Mississippi. Only Mt. Mitchell (6,684 feet) and Mt. Craig (6,647), both located in Mt. Mitchell State Park in western North Carolina, rise higher. The observation tower on the summit of Clingmans Dome offers spectacular 360° views of the Smokies and beyond for visitors willing to climb the steep half-mile walk to the tower at the top.” The photo came from the ever-traveling family of Rob Ponder of Duluth, who also send a picture of the observation deck.
Another view
Eight others recognized the structure. They included Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Ashley Herndon, Oceanside, Calif.; Lou Camerio, Lilburn; Robert Foreman, Grayson; Sara Rawlings, Lawrenceville; Jim Cofer, Snellville; and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex., who added: “To reach the top, you can drive to the parking area at the end of Clingmans Dome Road, and then trek along the 3,400 foot long Clingmans Dome Trail, climbing 330 feet, to reach the peak. Once at the top of the mountain, you are faced with a 375 long circular ramp that takes you above the tree canopy to finally reach the observation tower for a spectacular, panoramic 360° view of the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina and Tennessee. My wife and I made a visit to this site in May 2013.”
Jazz in the Alley in Norcross, Saturday, September 25 at 7:30 p.m. at Betty Mauldin Park. Shena Renee is the featured performer for this event. The event is free.
Norcross Art Fest will be held on October 2-3, 2021, this year in Lillian Webb Park. Hours are from 10 a.m. until 6 on Saturday and from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Sunday. It will host a large selection of local and talented artisans exhibiting their art work in many categories including folk art, paintings, glass, pottery, metalwork, yard art, jewelry, and other items. Additionally, there will be live music and food. Admission is free.
Elisha Winn Fair will be held at 908 Dacula Road on October 2-3 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., at the Elisha Winn home where Gwinnett County was founded in 1818. Come enjoy craft and food vendors, live demonstrations, live bluegrass/country music. The Skillet Lickers will be the featured musicians. There will also be War of 1812 re-enactors. Tours will be given of the furnished original house, circa 1812.Admission is $3 per person. The Fair is a project of the Gwinnett Historical Society.
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