Isn’t this a beautiful scene? Wouldn’t it be nice to be at this place, and enjoy the scenery of the water and the mountains. No doubt you would also enjoy the good food and the hospitality of the locals. But where is it? Send your ideas along and include your hometown. Send to elliott@brack.net.
Lou Camerio of Lilburn was first to recognize “….the Au Sable Light Station on Lake Superior near Grand Marais, Michigan.
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Blind Norcross graduate wins perfect job at Library of Congress
EEB PERSPECTIVE: What happened to civility in discourse in our country?
ANOTHER VIEW: Is a minority in U.S. (Catholics) getting upper hand in justice?
SPOTLIGHT: The Gwinnett Stripers
FEEDBACK: How about 30 minute compromise on setting time?
UPCOMING: GGC plans four new degrees for entertainment industry
RECOMMENDED: Glorious Cats by Lesley Anne Ivory
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia provides inspiration to many Johnny Mercer songs
MYSTERY PHOTO: Time to figure out where another lighthouse is located
LAGNIAPPE: Here’s a weather forecast from Rhodes Jordan Park
CALENDAR: Mountain Park community plans another public meeting April 14
By Timothy Jones | During my freshman year at Mercer, a student journalist once interviewed me. I told her that I wanted to eventually be somewhere serving God. If someone had told me then I would be serving Him in Washington, D.C.–making music available to the blind through braille music—I would never have believed it.
By Raleigh Perry | certainly have no heavy duty problem with a black female Court Justice. It is about time. The only problem that I have with her is that I am tired of Harvard and Yale educated members of the Supreme Court. There is not enough diversity on the court. Too much of the same does not necessarily get justice to everyone who comes before it. Congress is full of these single minded people also.
Four new Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) degrees will prepare students for careers in the entertainment industry, such as film and TV production. Beginning fall semester 2022, GGC will offer nexus degrees in professional editing in film/television, motion picture set lighting, production for film and television, and production design. GGC began offering a degree in professional sound design for film and television in spring 2022.
Yep, we like lighthouse photographs. It’s time to locate another lighthouse. Figure out where this one is located and send your answer to elliott@brack.net, including your hometown. Question: how long do you think it will take GwinnettForum to picture all the lighthouses in the USA?
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. provided an answer to the recent Mystery Photo. He writes: “This mystery photo is of a row of medieval, half-timbered cottages in a former fishermen’s district, now known as Klein-Venedig (German for ‘Little Venice’), on Bamberg’s Island City along the banks of the Regnitz River.
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Care partners in life, and now with Alzheimer’s
EEB PERSPECTIVE: The government is considering regulating how we keep time
SPOTLIGHT: Walton Gas
FEEDBACK: By deploying camera systems, maybe our area is catching up
UPCOMING: Snellville announces bands and dates of 2022 concert series
NOTABLE: GGC team searching for missing people—from years ago
RECOMMENDED: Dictionary of Words and Phrases by William Morris and Mary Morris
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia playwright has knack for delighting mainstream audiences
MYSTERY PHOTO: Perhaps these buildings can give you a clue to this Mystery
CALENDAR: Reclaim Gwinnett Place Mall Block Party will be Saturday, April 9
By Rick Krause | Sandy and I have been married nearly 52 years, no children, and we are generally inseparable in our life and activities. We enjoy traveling, chiefly road trips in North America, but numerous trips internationally. We like sightseeing, camping, backpacking, birding, botanizing; and hobbies, collecting, reading, sports, and more.
This edition’s Mystery Photo has few distinguishing clues, and features a town with prosperous buildings. Try to figure out where this photograph was taken. Send your answers to ellott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
Fran Worrall of Lawrenceville nailed the last Mystery Photo. She writes: “It’s Whites Chapel AME (African Methodist Episcopal) Church, located in Haralson County, Ga., near Tallapoosa.
“I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.”
— American Humorist James Thurber (1894 – 1961)
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:
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