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MYSTERY PHOTO: This mystery may be difficult to locate
Today’s Mystery Photo may prove difficult to locate, since there are few clues. Tell us where this piece is located and some of its background. Send your ideas to Elliott@brack.net and tell us where you live.
tew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville recognized the recent Mystery Photo: “It’s the Ellis Island registration hall.
NEW for 11/8: On Medicaid waiver; Fewer apartments
Click here to read the latest edition. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Georgia’s disastrous Medicaid waiver may be Brian Kemp’s legacy
EEB PERSPECTIVE: More townhomes and condos, not apartments, will benefit Gwinnett
SPOTLIGHT: Walton Gas
FEEDBACK: It may sound utopian, but the election is over; lose well
UPCOMING: Time to order wreaths for annual DAR presentation
NOTABLE: With ancestors as teachers, she continues in a family tradition
OBITUARIES: James Edward Ellis
RECOMMENDED: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Cold Sassy Tree is turn-of-century novel by Olive Ann Burns
MYSTERY PHOTO: Where is this big building with the highly-polished floor?
CALENDAR: Preview day at Georgia Gwinnett College is November 12
MYSTERY PHOTO: Where is this big building with the highly-polished floor?
Where is this building with a vaulted ceiling, two flags facing one another and a highly-polished floor? See if you can figure this out, then send your entry to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
Allan Peel of San Antonio was one of several people identifying the last mystery photo. He nailed it saying: “Today’s mystery photo is a shot of a crowd of over 1,500 ‘streakers’ running down Baxter Street in Athens on March 7, 1974.
NEW for 11/4: On policy vs. mud; Buford High’s accomplishments
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Professor says candidates need to talk policy, not just sling mud
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Buford High teams of all types keep on accomplishing
SPOTLIGHT: The 1818 Club
FEEDBACK: Anticipates there will not be any Social Security cuts
UPCOMING: Col. Dolores Hampton to be Veteran’s Day speaker Nov. 11
NOTABLE: Walton EMC members help local charities with $90,125
GEORGIA TIDBIT: New England native first natural history professor at UGA
MYSTERY PHOTO: A few bodies appear to be yearning for attention
CALENDAR: Independent authors talk at noon, Nov. 5 at the Duluth Public Library
Gwinnett Forum | July 26, 2024
“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)
Continuing objectives
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:
- Move statewide non-partisan judge and school board elections to the General Election.
- Adoption of the 2023 Transit Plan for Gwinnett.
- More creative efforts to support the arts in Gwinnett.
- Advancement and expansion of city historical societies.
- Require establishments that serve alcoholic beverages to halt sales of such products at 1 a.m., and close by 2 a.m.
- Require the Georgia Legislature to meet only once every two years.
- 21st century salary for the Gwinnett County Commission members.
- Remove chewing gum on sidewalks at entrances of post offices and other governmental buildings.
- Eliminate single-use plastic packaging and straws in Gwinnett and require instead the use of paper products.
- Condos instead of apartments for Gwinnett.
Interested in Gwinnett history?
Now re-printed in its third edition, Gwinnett: A Little Above Atlanta, the award-winning history of Gwinnett County, is once again available for purchase. It sold out of its first two printings. The book won the 2010 Award of Excellence in Documenting Georgia History from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board. The book is available at Old Town Antiques at 93 Main Street in Lilburn.
- The history of Gwinnett is also available as an e-book from Amazon or Barnes and Noble for $9.95.
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