Today’s Mystery Photo may remind us of a photograph taken in New York at the end of World War II. But this is a statue. Can you figure out where it is? Send your answer to ebrack2@gmail.com, including your hometown.
Several readers recognized “An Gorta Mór, ‘The Great Hunger Memorial, located along Lahinch Road, Lehinch, County Clare, Ireland. It was sent in by John Titus of Peachtree Corners.
Among those recognizing this photo were George Graf, Palmyra Va,; Stew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; Fran Worrall of Lawrenceville; and Allan Peel, San Antonio, Tex., who wrote: “The memorial notes (in both English and Gaelic) that ‘The memorial was erected in August 1995 by Clare County Council and the ladies and gentlemen of the ancient order of Hibernians in America and Ireland (B.O.E.) to commemorate all those who died in the Great Hunger.’
“The Great Hunger Memorial was the first memorial in Ireland placed in memory of the Great Hunger Famine (aka the Irish Potato Famine) that occurred in and around Ireland between 1845 to 1849 during which roughly one million people died and more than a million fled the country. The worst of the famine occurred in the west and south of Ireland during 1847, which became known historically as Black ’47.”
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Northside Medical Buford opens
Northside Hospital has opened its newest medical office building, Northside Medical Buford. The 100,000-square-foot facility at 2800 Buford Drive, between Coolray Field and the Mall of Georgia, brings a range of services to a fast-growing area of northern Gwinnett County. Some medical practices have already opened in the building and others will open in summer and fall. Other medical offices are expected to open soon. A full-service cardiac diagnostic center from the Northside Hospital Heart Institute will open in the fall, as will a Health Choice Urgent Care practice. Thursday’s event was the second time Northside cut the ribbon on a new medical office building, after the opening of Northside Medical Snellville last fall.
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