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LAGNIAPPE: Old tannery

Here’s a 2011 photo of the old main factory building of the Bona Allen Company, a tannery and leather goods business in Buford. 

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by · September 19, 2023 · Uncategorized
LAGNIAPPE: Lake Lanier Islands

LAGNIAPPE: Lake Lanier Islands

The next issue of GwinnettForum will be Sept. 26.

In the meantime, enjoy this relaxing picture of Lake Lanier Islands via Unsplash.

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by · September 15, 2023 · Uncategorized
Kurt and Vreny Eisele in a 2015 Oktoberfest photo.

NEW for 9/12: On energy growth, Kurt’s 80th, Hawaii

Click here to read the latest edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Georgia works well with “slow and steady” energy growth
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Surprise 80th party for famed restaurateur, Kurt Eisele
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Banking Company 
ANOTHER VIEW: Remembering a vacation to Hawaii years ago
FEEDBACK: Ways to determine if an email is from a scammer
UPCOMING: Johns Creek Symphony opens its 17th season Sept. 30
NOTABLE: New officers named for Mountain Park Community Association
RECOMMENDED: Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life by George Elliot
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia railroads financially sound, dominated by two lines
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s another wooden bridge for you to identify
CALENDAR: The 69th annual Gwinnett County Fair begins Thursday

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by · September 12, 2023 · Full issues
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BRACK: Surprise 80th party for famed restaurateur, Kurt Eisele

By Elliott Brack  |  Years ago, birthday parties for kids and the elderly were more common. With more reaching 75, 80 and 90 years today, it seems fewer of them are being honored with family bashes.

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by · September 12, 2023 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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FOCUS: Georgia works well with “slow and steady” energy growth

By Tim Echols |  If ever there is a weekend when “fantasy” dominates, it was Labor Day weekend in Atlanta.  Tens of thousands who play Fantasy Football, including me, were drafting their fantasy teams.  

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by · September 12, 2023 · Today's Focus
Diamond Head in Hawaii; via Wikipedia.

ANOTHER VIEW: Remembering a vacation to Hawaii years ago

By Frank Sharp.  |  After eight hours and 40 minutes in the air, our nonstop flight from Atlanta to Hawaii finally landed at Honolulu International Airport!

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by · September 12, 2023 · Another View
NEWS BRIEFS: Johns Creek Symphony opens its 17th season Sept. 30

NEWS BRIEFS: Johns Creek Symphony opens its 17th season Sept. 30

Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra is ready to ignite the area with a dynamic concert performance, featuring Mark Wood, the original string master of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. “The Mark Wood Experience” will be held on Saturday, September 30 at 7 p.m. in Newtown Park, 3150 Old Alabama Road in Johns Creek. 

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by · September 12, 2023 · News
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s another wooden bridge for you to identify

MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s another wooden bridge for you to identify

Besides lighthouses, another favorite for Mystery Photos is wooden bridges. Here’s another. Your job is to identify where this bridge is located, and tell us something about this bridge.  Send your guess to elliott@brack.net, to include your hometown. The most recent Mystery Photo was of Bigfoot, as George Graf of Palmyra, Va. told us…

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by · September 12, 2023 · Mystery photos
NEW for 9/8: Hill talk; Electrification; Bidenomics

NEW for 9/8: Hill talk; Electrification; Bidenomics

Click here to read the latest edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Hill to address the Sugar Hill Preservation Society Sept. 20
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Early way to get electricity to Gwinnett homes: barbed wire!
SPOTLIGHT: Peach State Federal Credit Union
ANOTHER VIEW: Bidenomics are working, but messaging doesn’t get through
FEEDBACK: Victim of senseless shooting was North Gwinnett grad
UPCOMING: Fourth of July photos of Norcross now on display
NOTABLE: Two national grants help GGC students broaden base
OBITUARY: Lucy Jones Hutchins
RECOMMENDED: It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
GEORGIA TIDBIT: 1920s proved to be the high point of railroad service
MYSTERY PHOTO: Somewhat familiar faces are today’s mystery
CALENDAR: Combating sexual trafficking talk is Sept. 10 in Norcross

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by · September 8, 2023 · Full issues
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FOCUS: Hill to address the Sugar Hill Preservation Society Sept. 20

By Kim Landers  |  The speaker series of the Sugar Hill Historic Preservation Society on Wednesday, September 20, will be former Gwinnett County Commission Chairman Wayne Hill.  The event will be at the Eagle Theatre. Doors open at 6:30 and the program starts at 7 p.m.

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by · September 8, 2023 · Today's Focus