You’ll need to think outside the box to identify this Mystery Photo. Associate the phrase “long time ago” to this photo. Send your answers to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. solved both the Mystery Photo and a second question with his answer to the last puzzle. The photo was submitted by Charles Anderson of Lawrenceville.
Peel wrote: “Today’s mystery photo is of the ‘gazebo’ on the grounds of the Camden Public Library in Camden, Maine. The library was first opened on June 11, 1928, and it underwent an expansion with the addition of the Centennial Wing in 1996. The Centennial Wing was actually built entirely underground, under the lawn where the ‘gazebo’ sits today. It was built underground so as to not obstruct the views of the Camden Harbor that can been seen from the main library building.
But why would anyone build a gazebo, surrounded by glass doors (or are they windows?), leave it empty, and then place iron bars around the perimeter.
Well, the structure is actually the rotunda of the underground reference room in the Centennial Wing. It is in effect a window that allows natural lighting into a room that otherwise be quite dark. The ironwork was installed to ensure that only light can get through the glass windows (yes .. they are windows, not doors). Pretty ingenious, huh?”
As is often the case, George Graf of Palmyra, Va. also solved this mystery.
Ugly neckties were once rewarded in Gwinnett
Years ago, there were annual Ugly Tie Contest for readers of the Gwinnett Daily News. Larry Zani, who then lived in Norcross, won one year’s contest. He now lives in Kaiserslauten, Germany and ran across this article. That year some 93 people contributed their own ugly neckties in the contest. The three top winners won a two-day weekend at what was then PineIsle resort at Lake Lanier. We’re also showing an old column about the contest, which Larry Zani uncovered at his home.
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