GOOD NEIGHBOR: Winner of the Good Neighbor Award from the Good Samaritan Health Center of Norcross is Tom Aspey (second from right) of Norcross. For thirty years he has given volunteer labor and donations of materials to the reconstruction of homes, churches, and schools destroyed by natural disasters in Honduras, Haiti, El Salvador, New Orleans, and more recently, Mexico Beach, Fla. Today, he serves his Gwinnett community by delivering food, providing transportation, and mentoring youth in distressed households. Other nominees included, from left, Sally and Frits ten Pas and (at right) Andrew Hoppen, all of Peachtree Corners. The award was given at the recent Good Neighbor Gala, which raised $85,000. Announced at the Gala was the purchase of a building that will become the new home of Good Samaritan East Clinic. It will be open in early 2020 and is located at 1175 Commercial Court, Norcross, 30093.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Annandale Village in 2019 Marks 50th Year Since Its Founding
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Lack of Announcements from Republicans in Gwinnett Is Ironic
ANOTHER VIEW: Action on Judge Gorsuch Delegitimizes Every Decision He Will Make
SPOTLIGHT: The 1818 Club
FEEDBACK: Recent Letter Provides Belly Laugh about Trump Regime
UPCOMING: Gwinnett DOT Plans Projects in Lawrenceville and at West Park Place
NOTABLE: ARC Forecasts Gwinnett To Grow to 1.4 Million by Year 2050
RECOMMENDED: Post-Truth By Lee McIntyre
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Marching through Georgia: One of Best Known Civil War Songs
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s Another Lighthouse To Test Your Abilities
CALENDAR: The 11th annual Frontier Faire will be held Saturday, October 19
Annandale Village in 2019 marks 50th year since founding
By Kayce Pearce
SUWANEE, Ga. | Annandale Village, a Gwinnett non-profit that serves adults with developmental disabilities and acquired brain injuries, is celebrating their 50th year anniversary in 2019. Founded in 1969, Annandale is a nationally recognized leader among nonprofit organizations. It is the only non-profit in the state of Georgia to offer men and women with developmental disabilities and acquired brain injuries a continuum of service and care.
Pearce
To commemorate this monumental accomplishment, Annandale will hold special events and fundraising efforts throughout 2019 and 2020, including their flagship annual fundraising event, Jazzy Thing, in the Spring of 2020. This raises awareness for individuals with developmental disabilities and acquired brain injuries. The annual Annandale Village’sFamily Weekend welcomes hundreds of families and friends to a weekend of celebration in the Fall.
Annandale’s CEO Adam Pomeranz says: “Annandale’s mission is to turn disability into possibility for the hundreds of men and women we serve each year. For 50 years, the generous support we’ve received from individuals, foundations and corporate contributors has helped grow our services exponentially, allowing us to provide a comprehensive range of programs designed to improve the quality of life of each Villager served.”
Annandale’s Board of Trustees Chairman, Steve Gaultney, reflects on Annandale’s unique mark in the community: “Annandale Village is one of only three organizations of its kind in the entire United States. I am so proud to be serving on the board to help these male and female Villagers with unique abilities as they live their lives as independently as possible.”
Annandale Village boasts a distinctive business model, created by its founders Dr. and Mrs. Maxwell Berry of Atlanta. The Berrys wanted their daughter, Libba, to have an opportunity to lead a life that reflected quality, self-worth, independence and achievement. Additionally, they wanted a cost effective place for Libba to live her life in perpetuity. When the Berry’s established Annandale Village, they developed it as a non-profit, and this model still stands today. Annandale only charges the families approximately 80 percent of the actual cost of care; the remaining 20 percent comes from the generosity of the philanthropic community.
As Annandale celebrates 50 years of turning disability into possibility, the organization is committed to being “Villager first,” providing an environment with optimal independence for each individual served.
More background on Annandale Village
Annandale Village is a 55-acre vibrant community that offers a full spectrum of residential, health, social, educational, and recreational services. The campus comprises outdoor walking trails and recreational facilities, social and event centers, a health clinic, dining facilities, the Corley-Holland chapel, and the Patricia M. Brown Center for Programs, a 25,000 square foot building that boasts a full sized gymnasium, fitness center, indoor pool, game room, vocational workshop, art gallery, computer lab, educational classrooms, and multi-purpose meeting rooms.
Licensed for Independent Living, Personal Care Home, Day Programs, Short-Term Respite Care, Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing, the breadth of services offered at Annandale allows the organization to provide highly individualized support that serves the unique needs of each individual and enables them to achieve their greatest level of independence and achievement. The mission of Annandale Village is to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities and acquired brain injuries so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.
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Lack of announcements from Gwinnett Republicans is ironic
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
OCT. 15, 2019 | Irony reigns.
Read on to understand.
It was a letter this week from Monte Nichols of Peachtree Corners. He asked simply: “I seem to remember that you previously listed an objective related to having a vital two party presence in the Gwinnett political scene. Is my memory correct?”
Monte’s memory is sound.
Indeed, previously in GwinnettForum’s List of Continuing Objectives for Gwinnett County, included “Development of a two-party system for county offices.” When the 2018 elections were over, that objective came down. We wrote at the time:
Two-party system: The 2018 election flipped parties on many legislative districts in Gwinnett, and also brought two Democrats to the County Commission, and one to the School Board. It appears that Gwinnett has achieved this objective. However, this arena needs constant surveillance as each election can bring changes. We therefore reword this objective to be: “High quality candidates for elective office in Gwinnett.”
This area needs some perspective. Here’s why. While Democrats this year seem to be coming out of the woodwork to announce their candidacies for many offices, there has been an abrupt silence from the Republican side of the aisle. Other than several Republicans having their eyes on the Seventh District Congressional seat, it’s mighty quiet from Republicans announcing their intention to seek office for county and legislative positions this season. Yes, the overall lack of interest of the Republicans wanting to offer themselves for any post is surprising.
Perhaps all it took was a gander at the 2016 election results in Gwinnett by the GOP side, where either Democrats took many races, or at least scored nearly 50 percent of the votes in elections the few Republicans won.
“That’s it,” many seemed to respond. “I’m not offering next time.”
And that’s what makes all this seem so ironic. For since 1984, Republicans have been dominant in Gwinnett politics. In one sense Republican candidates faced more opposition in the party primary against other Republicans than they did against Democrats in the General Election. For 34 years, the Grand Old Party virtually “owned” Gwinneett. And it was almost impossible to even find a Democrat hiding under a rock.
Now that it’s apparently changed, we’ll go with our objective as it now stands until after the election: “High quality candidates for elective office in Gwinnett.” We just hope the Republicans find people willing to seek office in Gwinnett in the 2020 election. And to us, that’s really ironic after years of GOP domination.
A little more background: Having a long-term list of objectives for us came after one (cold) year we spent in the Midwest, occasionally reading The Chicago Tribune, that rock-ribbed conservative voice of the area. That’s where we first spotted a list of continuing objectives for an area. Once we began publishing the Wayne County Press in Jesup, we started a list of worthy objectives for that county. When seeing situations that needed improvements, we would write an editorial about it, and on that occasion, add it to our list. Eventually the list grew to 10 or 12 overall objectives.
Happily, when an objective was attained, we wrote of it, praising those involved, and removed it from our list. We will say that while 13 years in Jesup, we never removed the objective “Republican candidates for local offices” from the list. Only years after Ronald Reagan changed the Republican Party, did Wayne County finally vote Republican, as it is mostly today.
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Action on Gorsuch delegitimizes every decision he will make
By George Wilson, contributing columnist
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. | Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, decided to break two and a half centuries of precedent and refused to grant a hearing for Merrick Garland, Obama’s moderate nominee for the Supreme Court. Instead, after President Trump was made president by the electoral vote (not the popular vote), Neil Gorsuch was nominated to the seat on the Supreme Court. This delegitimizes every decision to which Gorsuch makes that contributes to a deciding vote.
This is a stolen seat, because under any normal process, it would have been an appointee of President Obama. Also, stolen because the kinds of norms that made stealing the seat in this way unthinkable are simply impossible to legislate by the Congress. Democratic institutions require some measure of trust to function and McConnell (and Gorsuch) broke that trust, perhaps irreparably.
The theft of the Supreme Court by McConnell is perhaps the most direct and strongest assault on our democratic institutions in generations. Consequently, the action fueled the rancor of our society, sickened our political culture, and contributed to an ever deepening disrespect for democratic institutions. Another key point, the Senate under McConnell’s tutelage has become a graveyard for legislation passed by the House.
Nevertheless, the only moral thing for Gorsuch to do would be to step down from his position when a new Democratic president and Senate is elected. We should be demanding that he do so. Of course, Gorsuch in his writings has called on the rest of us to be more civil. It is the hypocrisy of the oppressors who owe their positions to the passivity of their subjects by urging them to be civil.
Finally, far from civility, we should throw everything we have on working to remove people like Trump, and McConnell, and Gorsuch. That is how we can show respect to the Constitution and restore civility to our republic. What we are seeing with McConnell, Trump and Gorsuch are the first slide toward authoritarianism, with the accompanying spineless silence of most elected Republican officials.
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Recent letter provides belly laugh about Trump regime
Editor, the Forum:
Your latest letter writer gave me a belly laugh trying to defend President Trump’s regime in office. I’m sure this person is a very fine and upstanding citizen who apparently drank the Trump Kool-Aid.
There is nothing moral or decent about this man in the White House. His problem is, he didn’t get the popular vote and he is still harping on that fact. As for the Bidens, all those charges have been looked at, scrutinized under a microscope and they have been exonerated from any wrongdoing.
Trump got caught extorting a young, naive and untested new president of Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelensky, was a comedian before he was elected president (which says a lot about that part of the world). Yes, somehow President Trump slipped past being found colluding with Russia, but I still find it funny he bends over every which way of Sundays to make Putin like him. Sad. And yes, my new hobby is “trolling” people who support Trump with no regard for truth or facts.
Oh, and one other thing, if Trump had been a Democrat doing what he has done, yes, you guessed it, the Republicans would be screaming: Impeach, Impeach, Impeach!
— Sara Rawlins, Lawrenceville
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Gwinnett DOT plans projects in Lawrenceville, West Park Place
Gwinnett County Department of Transportation is using voter-approved SPLOST revenue for the construction of two safety improvements in different parts of the county.
The 2017 SPLOST is paying for $2.17 million in operational and safety improvements to the t-shaped intersection at West Park Place and Rockbridge Road located south of Lilburn near Stone Mountain.
The intersection will go from one to two left-turn lanes from eastbound West Park Place Boulevard onto northbound Rockbridge Road. Dual right-turn lanes will be constructed through the intersection for vehicles going north on Rockbridge Road. A raised median will also be added for approximately 500 feet on West Park Place Boulevard west of Rockbridge Road to separate traffic going in opposite directions. In addition, the project calls for the replacement of sidewalks on both sides of West Park Place Boulevard and Rockbridge Road.
Construction is anticipated to begin late this year with completion in the fall of 2020.
The second project is a new sidewalk just east of Lawrenceville on East Crogan Street funded by the 2009 and 2014 SPLOST programs and the city of Lawrenceville. The new sidewalk along East Crogan Street from Village Way to the Magnolia Village neighborhood will connect the community to Jordan Middle School and Jenkins Elementary School. The $640,000 project also includes the replacement of an existing traffic signal at East Crogan Street and Village Way and drainage improvements.
Construction is anticipated to begin late this year with completion in mid-2020.
Frontier Faire this weekend at Fort Daniel site at Hog Mountain
Celebrating 11 years of community education, the Fort Daniel Foundation will host its 11TH annual Frontier Faire on Saturday, October 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Experience archaeology, meet living history reenactors, see the skill of blacksmithing, and listen to storyteller Barry Stewart Mann as he shares Cherokee culture.
The Philadelphia Winn Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) will be participating with their “All Things DAR” table, which includes a selection of patriotic literature, bookmarks, pencils, American flags and pins. While you visit the DAR table, help honor and remember fallen heroes through Wreaths Across America. For a $15 sponsorship residents may have a remembrance wreath placed on veterans’ graves at East Shadowlawn Memorial Gardens, 87 Scenic Highway in Lawrenceville. This event will be held on Saturday, December 14.
Additionally, members of the Elisha Winn Society Children of the American Revolution (C.A.R.) will be available to assist children with fun, hands-on activities. Learn how to write with a quill pen, make butter, and visit members from the Button Gwinnett Chapter Sons of the American Revolution. Visitors are welcomed to dress in period-appropriate attire as they enjoy the day.
Preserving history for future generations is an important task and is one of the main objectives of the DAR. Learn more about this pioneer period fort which predates the formation of Gwinnett County in 1818. Work to promote and preserve Gwinnett County’s rich history. For more information regarding the Philadelphia Winn Chapter of the NSDAR, visit the website at: philadelphiawinn.georgiastatedar.org.
Also at the Frontier Faire, a Historic Marker dedication will take place by the State of Georgia Society, United States Daughters (USD) of 1812. The Marker Dedication and Wreath Presentation event will be Saturday, October 26, at the Fort Daniel Historic Site.
Fort Daniel is the second fort in Georgia to be marked by the Georgia Society USD of 1812. Fort Hawkins in Macon is the first fort in Georgia to have the distinguished 1812-era marker.
Patriot John McMillian, who served at Fort Daniel during the War of 1812, is an ancestor of members of the Georgia Society USD of 1812. A Gwinnett County park, The Fort Daniel Historic Site and Archaeological Research Park is located at 2505 Braselton Highway, Buford. The ceremony begins at 10:30 a.m.
Solicitor to host Oct. 19 expungement for misdemeanors
The Gwinnett County Solicitor’s Office is hosting a Restriction Summit (expungement) for misdemeanors October 19 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Georgia Gwinnett College in the Student Union, Building E.
In order to have the criminal record reviewed for restriction, the applicant must meet the following criteria:
- Arrested in Gwinnett County jurisdiction;
- Must not be convicted/found guilty at trial;
- Did not plead guilty/nolo contendere;
- Certain misdemeanors while under the age of 21;
- Completed a pre-trial diversion program; and
- Completed “first offender” course.
For more information, call (770) 822-8300. Those interested in participating must preregister and provide their information and consent to pull their history by October 12. The forms can be accessed online here.
ARC forecasts Gwinnett to grow to 1.4 million by 2050
Gwinnett County will add 589,000 people by 2050 and reach a population of 1.48 million – the most in Georgia and in the 21-county Atlanta region , according to population and employment forecasts released by the Atlanta Regional Commission. Gwinnett’s population will grow by 66 percent by 2050 and become much more diverse, according to ARC’s forecasts.
Highlights of Gwinnett’s 2050 forecasts include:
- In 2050, Gwinnett’s population is forecast to be 28 percent Hispanic, 27 percent black, 26 percent other (a category that includes Asians) and 18 percent white. In 2015, the county was 39 percent white, 26 percent black, 21 percent Hispanic, and 14 percent other.
- The share of the county’s population that is age 75 and older will reach 13 percent in 2050, compared to 3 percent in 2015.
- Gwinnett County will become the most populous county in the region with 1.48 million residents, narrowly edging Fulton County.
- Forsyth County will have the fastest rate of growth by 2050, more than doubling in population, followed by Henry County with a growth rate of 70 percent.
According to ARC’s regional forecast, the 21-county Atlanta region will add 2.9 million people by 2050, pushing the total population to 8.6 million. The forecasts also show that by 2050, the region will become more racially and ethnically diverse, the number of older adults will increase significantly, and 1.2 million jobs will be added, bringing the region’s employment total to 4.7 million.
To put the numbers in context, the forecast population growth of 2.9 million is equivalent to today’s population of metro Denver, and slightly more than metro Charlotte.
Doug Hooker, ARC executive director, says: “Metro Atlanta has been one of the nation’s growth engines for the past few decades, fueled by our high quality of life and dynamic, diverse economy. Our continued prosperity is not a certainty. We must continue to carefully plan for the future and invest in the programs and infrastructure needed for our region to remain a great place to live.”
Laury joins Northside Institute in sports medicine
Laury
Northside Hospital Orthopedic Institute Sports Medicine welcomes Dr. Torrance Laury to its Buford, Cumming and Peachtree Corners locations. Dr. Laury is board certified in family medicine and CAQ certified in sports medicine. His particular areas of interest are in injury prevention in youth sports, competitive gymnastics, arthritis and chronic injuries due to overuse. Dr. Laury is seeing patients in: Buford: 1839 Buford Highway, Suite 100; Cumming: 2000 Howard Farm Drive, Suite 305; and Peachtree Corners: 5277 Peachtree Parkway.For more information about the Northside Hospital Sports Medicine Network call 1-855-NH-SPORT (647-7678) or visit sportsmedicine.northside.com.
Post-Truth By Lee McIntyre
From John Titus, Peachtree Corners: “Post-Truth” is defined in the Oxford Dictionaries as ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.’ McIntyre argues that the challenges to truth are being used as a mechanism for asserting political dominance. As it has played out in recent public debate post-truth is not so much a claim that truth does not exist as that facts are subordinate to our political point of view. As he studies this phenomenon he examines our cognitive biases (accommodating our beliefs to our feelings), confirmation biases (interpreting information so as to conform to our preexisting beliefs), information silos, false equivalence and fake news. In the end he argues that we should not adapt to a post-truth world, but rather fight it. Truth matters, as it always has.
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Marching through Georgia: One of best-known Civil War songs
“Marching through Georgia” is one of the best-known songs of the Civil War (1861-65).
Composed by Henry Clay Work and published soon after the war ended in 1865, it commemorates Union General William T. Sherman’s march from Atlanta to Savannah in the fall of 1864. The song became very popular in the North and sold more than 500,000 copies in the first twelve years after its publication.
Work, a Connecticut native living in Chicago, Ill. when the war broke out, was a printer by trade as well as a self-taught musician. In 1861 he signed a contract to produce sheet music for Root and Cady, a Chicago publishing firm. The firm’s George F. Root was himself a well-known composer of popular music and Civil War songs.
“Marching through Georgia” is a five-stanza song with a recurring chorus and was published with a piano accompaniment. Like many Civil War songs, it served as a rallying cry for the North, even though the song did not appear until after the war had ended. Some historians have attributed the song’s popularity to its morale-boosting effect as a celebration of the triumphant end of the war. As a testament to freedom and sacrifice, its inspirational lyrics also contain a comic undertone.
The first stanza calls for the rallying of the troops with the bugle call. The second stanza contains the line “How the darkies shouted when they heard the joyful sound” and claims that even sweet potatoes popped out of the ground as the “Yankees” approached. The third stanza is a nostalgic account of the Union soldiers as they see their flag raised.
In the fourth stanza, the comedic tone returns with reference to “saucy rebels” who did not think the Northern troops could reach the coast. The final stanza describes the 300-mile-long march to the sea, in which the Union army, in a 60-mile-wide column, “made a thoroughfare for freedom and her train.” The chorus is written in four-part harmony for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass, to be performed by a group of people in response to a soloist singing the stanzas.
While this song remained quite popular in the North and became a standard at veterans’ reunions and political rallies, Sherman did not like it and once stated that “…if I had thought when I made that march that it would have inspired anyone to compose the piece, I would have marched around the state.”
“Marching through Georgia” became a popular tune for parade bands and inspired later composers, including Charles Ives. In Ives’s early-20th-century composition for orchestra Three Places in New England, the first movement, “The ‘St. Gaudens’ in Boston Common,” features a medley that interweaves Work’s tune with Root’s “Battle Cry of Freedom” and an old plantation song, “Old Black Joe.”
“Marching through Georgia” remains a recognizable song. It may be heard in the film Gone With the Wind (1939) and was used by Ken Burns in his documentary The Civil War (1990). Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., once adopted the tune as its football fight song.
The last stanza goes:
So we made a thoroughfare for freedom and her train,
Sixty miles in latitude, 300 to the main.
Treason fled before us, for resistance was in vain
While we were marching through Georgia!
[Chorus]: Hurrah, hurrah, we bring the jubilee!
Hurrah, hurrah, the flag that makes you free!
So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea
While we were marching through Georgia!
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Here’s another lighthouse to test your abilities
Readers know we like images of lighthouses, and here’s another one. We would warn you: this same lighthouse isn’t painted the same color today as it was when this photo was taken several years ago. Now who’s the first to tell where this lighthouse is? Send answers to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown!
The Mystery Photo for the last edition was from Frank Sharp of Lawrenceville, and was a view of the city of Genoa, Italy. Unfortunately, somehow we lost the list of the few people who recognized the photo. We remember one reader sent a similar photo, taken apparently from the same building as Sharp sent. We apologize for losing the listing of those who recognized the photo.
11th annual Frontier Faire to be held Oct. 19
Network in Braselton with your neighbor-businesses on Tuesday, October 15 at 6:30 p.m. at Braselton Brewing Company in downtown Braselton. This quarterly meeting with other locals people is limited to the first 30 licensed Braselton businesses signing.
Emil Powella will speak at the Lilburn Business Association October 15 meeting at 11:30 a.m. in the Preston Room of Lilburn City Hall. He currently serves on the Lilburn Planning Commission and Lilburn Merit Board. He is also the unofficial city photographer for Lilburn. He retired from a career in marketing, working for several major petroleum companies. His talk focuses on the critical need for companies to “maintain” current customers. For more information: https://www.lilburnbusiness.org/.
Meet Stuart Woods on Tuesday, October 15 at 7 p.m. at the Norcross Cultural Arts and Community Center, 10 College Street, Norcross. Woods is the bestselling author of more than 75 novels. He is a native of Georgia. He returns to Gwinnett to talk about his newest book Skin Game. Silent auction and beverage bar sponsored by the Friends of the Library. For more information, visit www.gwinnettpl.org or call 770-978-5154.
Bridge the Gap 5K run will be held at Suwanee Town Center on October 19. It is a Peachtree Road Race qualifying event. Registration is at 8 a.m. and the race starts at 9 a.m. Help bridge the gap for all adults with developmental disabilities as they transition into adulthood and the need for lifelong services. With your support, more adults with disabilities in the community can be served. For details, go to www.runsignup.com/bridgethegapga.
Zombie Run 5K will be October 19 in Braselton at 8:30 a.m. This course will be littered with zombies. The best way to avoid them is to outrun them. But don’t worry, Zombies aren’t real …or are they? Come find out how you will fare. For more details, go to http://downtownbraselton.com.
The 11th annual Frontier Faire will be held at the Fort Daniel Historic Site, 2505 Braselton Highway (Georgia Highway 124) on Saturday, October 19 at 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Come see demonstrations, public archaeology, and storytelling by Barry Stewart Mann at 1 p.m. Admission is $2 for individuals, or $5 for families.
Putting on the Litz, the Gwinnett County Public Library Foundation gala, will be Saturday, October 19 at 6:30 at the Infinite Energy Center in Duluth. The gala features gourmet dining, live entertainment, a silent and live auction and dancing. Author Diane Ackerman (The Zookeeper’s Wife) will be the keynote speaker.
The 47th Annual Stone Mountain Highland Games will take place October 19-20 at Stone Mountain Park. The games feature a number of pipe bands, folk singers, Celtic rock groups, Scottish country dancing, Highland dancing, sheep dog herding demonstrations and, of course, the athletic games. More than 100 Scottish clan associations will host tents and other organizations will provide tents with information on all things Scottish. The games will also host related activities (free lectures, a Celtic concert and a ball) on Friday, October 18, at the Hilton Atlanta Northeast in Norcross. For the complete schedule and ticket information, go to www.smhg.org.
Juried Art Exhibit at the Tannery Row Artist Colony in Buford continues until November 1. Includes a variety of media, including painting, pastel, colored pencil, pen and ink, mixed media, printmaking, fibre arts, photography, digital art and three dimensional art, including ceramics, pottery and found object sculpture. The Colony is located at 554 West Main Street in Buford.
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