Today’s mystery is obviously an older church. Your job is to figure out where it is located. Send your thoughts to ebrack2@gmail.com, and list your hometown.
First to identify last edition’s mystery near a flagpole flying our nation’s flag was Molly Titus of Peachtree Corners. “Isn’t that Brookgreen Gardens, in Murrells Inlet, S.C. It was sent in by Ross Lenhart of Stone Mountain.
Others recognizing it included Virginia Klaer, Duluth; Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; George Graf, Palmyra,Va.; and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex., who wrote: “It’s a life-sized, four piece collection of bronze sculptures that depict a group of seven multicultural children pledging allegiance to our flag. Called Pledge Allegiance, it is the work of an American sculptor, Glenna Maxey Goodacre (1939 – 2020). There are actually a number of bronze castings of this artwork located mostly in the United States, but with some as far away as Japan and Brazil. Brookgreen Gardens is a 9,127-acre property preserve located north of Charleston and south of Myrtle Beach. The Brookgreen Gardens combines a botanical garden with more than 2,000 outdoor sculptures and exhibits of wild animals as well as a zoo that is a ‘safe home’ to a variety of Lowcountry native animals.
“The first rendition of the Goodacre’s Pledge Allegiance was created in 1990 as a 24″ maquette (or small miniature model) for the Denver Children’s Museum to give as an award to First Lady Barbara Bush in recognition of her work with literacy. Its popularity with the public eventually inspired Goodacre to create a number of life-size versions of the sculpture in which the children are approximately 5-feet high and the flagpole is 14-feet high.”
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New Discovery Park opens on Old Norcross Road
Gwinnett County officials on Thursday broke ground on Discovery Park, the newest addition to the County’s award-winning parks system, off Old Norcross Road near Discovery High School. When complete, the 45-acre park will feature an inclusive playground suitable for children of all ages and abilities, open greenspaces, a Ride Gwinnett bus stop, shaded picnic pavilions and more. Other amenities include an interactive fountain, a multipurpose sports field and two 3-on-3 soccer pitches. A lighted, 12-foot-wide multi-use trail will encircle the entire park. The $28.5 million project is funded by the County’s SPLOST program. The park is expected to open to the public in 2026.
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