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12/1: On family history, GOP convention, cemetery tour

12/1: On family history, GOP convention, cemetery tour

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Children Do Better When They Know Their Family History
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Would a Deadlocked GOP Convention Turn To Someone Not Running?
ANOTHER VIEW: Historic Free Tour of Norcross Cemetery Scheduled on December 12
FEEDBACK: Not Happy When People Change the Name of Holidays
UPCOMING: A Christmas Carol Returns to Aurora Theatre
NOTABLE: More Young Men Performing at Gwinnett Ballet Theatre
RECOMMENDED OUTING: The Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia Leads the Nation in the Production of Pecans
TODAY’S QUOTE: What “Bipartisan” Really Means
MYSTERY PHOTO: Clues Galore for This Edition’s Mystery Photo

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by · December 1, 2015 · Today's Focus
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FOCUS: Children do better in life when they know their family history

By Jerry J. Colley | When in the hospital recovering from surgery, I read in an old Reader’s Digest that children do better in life when they know their family history. It started me thinking about my family history and how little I know about it.

I would love to know about my great and great-great grandfathers’ experiences serving in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. And my first hero was my Great Uncle Larry Wootan, who served in the U.S. Army during World War I. His memory was gone by the time I was old enough to appreciate what he had done.

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by · December 1, 2015 · Today's Focus
Mollie Jones with her son Clifford Jones, circa 1902

RAMSAY: Norcross Cemetery Tour on Dec. 12 tells of bygone citizens

By Gene Ramsay | The town of Norcross was founded in 1870 when entrepreneur John Thrasher built a resort hotel at a stop on a newly-constructed railroad connecting Atlanta to the northeast. Many families moved to the new town, and built stately homes that survive to this day on its residential streets, giving it a historic character that is unique today for this area of the state.

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by · December 1, 2015 · Another View
MYSTERY: Lots of clues for this photo

MYSTERY: Lots of clues for this photo

There’s water, towers, greenery, an island, and even apparently a festival going in the background in this week’s Mystery Photo. Now figure out where this is. Send your answers to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include the town where you live.

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by · December 1, 2015 · Mystery photos
11/24: Old Norcross library; Buford entrepreneur; Thanksgiving

11/24: Old Norcross library; Buford entrepreneur; Thanksgiving

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Is That a Carnegie Library Building in Norcross?
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Enterprising Young Woman Ventures Out with First Product
ANOTHER VIEW: Oh, the Joys, the Anguish, of Thanksgiving
UPCOMING: Myriad of Christmas Activities in Dacula on Sunday, December 6
NOTABLE: Eleven Middle School Teachers Win Bright Idea Grants
RECOMMENDED READ: The Generals by Winston Groom
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Once a Wonder, Kudzu Is No Longer Considered a Beneficial Crop
TODAY’S QUOTE: The Name of Your Pillow Where You Pray at Night
MYSTERY PHOTO: Tall Column Commemorates What, and Where Is It?
LAGNIAPPE: Master Gardener Volunteers Win Recognition

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by · November 24, 2015 · Full issues
BRACK: Enterprising Buford resident produces cookie kit for youngsters

BRACK: Enterprising Buford resident produces cookie kit for youngsters

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | A resident of Buford has launched her own business — producing a Cookie Chemistry Lab for children eight and older. It’s already in several stores, and online, all aimed at children during the Christmas season.

The young lady, Crystal Felton, age 30, is hoping that this initial effort at selling her own product will allow her to develop new ideas….and not saying what they are, she has several in mind. She’s a budding entrepreneur, and has the confidence to become successful. Her business is named Epiphany of Chemistry, LLC.

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by · November 24, 2015 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
FOCUS: How Norcross got what looks like Carnegie Library but isn’t

FOCUS: How Norcross got what looks like Carnegie Library but isn’t

By Geoff Hammett | It’s interesting that a Carnegie Library style building in Norcross resembles the early 1900s one-room Carnegie Library designs, but the Norcross library was built in 1921. So I investigated the possibility that the Norcross Library could be an unaccounted for Carnegie Library. Even if not funded as a Carnegie Library, the building is at least in spirit and in appearance a Carnegie Library. It eventually became the first library in Gwinnett County.

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by · November 24, 2015 · Today's Focus
HOUSTON: Miffed as Thanksgiving approaches

HOUSTON: Miffed as Thanksgiving approaches

By Debra Houston | I’m miffed, and it has nothing to do with 20 people coming to my house for Thanksgiving dinner. No, I love the holiday and all that goes with it.

I love dusting off old issues of Southern Living each year for inspiration on recipes, decorating, and hospitality. I hang an oversized harvest wreath in my kitchen and on the porch door. From the jungle of my basement, I dig up Puritan figurines, unearth Puritan stuffed bears, and nearly trip on a stone Puritan man grimly holding a musket; he will guard the hearth.

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by · November 24, 2015 · Another View
MYSTERY: Tall column commemorates what — and where is it?

MYSTERY: Tall column commemorates what — and where is it?

This tall column celebrates something. Can you figure out what it is, and where this photo was taken? Send your answers to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include the town where you live.

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by · November 24, 2015 · Mystery photos
11/20: On election day, presidential politics, abortion

11/20: On election day, presidential politics, abortion

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Suggests Combining Election Day and Veterans Day

EEB PERSPECTIVE: Two Competing Factors Come Into Play for Presidential Race

ANOTHER VIEW: Proven Ways the United States Can Reduce Abortions

FEEDBACK: Feels Writer Has Misunderstanding of the Constitution

UPCOMING: Norcross Tour of Homes; Writing Workshop in Athens; Others

NOTABLE: Two People Singled Out for Accomplishments

RECOMMENDED READ: Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Guy

GEORGIA TIDBIT: Where Did the Phrase, “You’ll Be Out on Your Ear” Come From?

TODAY’S QUOTE: That Few Milliseconds Between Pitch and Call

MYSTERY PHOTO: Ex-Gwinnettian Sends Photo That No One Can Identify

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by · November 20, 2015 · Full issues
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