Elliott Brack’s Perspective
BRACK: One way to know if a community is proud of itself
By Elliott Brack | A now deceased attorney was familiar with many of the small towns of South Georgia, and had a theory which applies elsewhere. “You can tell a good deal about a town just by looking at its cemeteries and its courthouse. If they are kept up neat and clean, that’s a pretty good town to live in.”
BRACK: 66th Gwinnett County Fair starts Sept. 16 for 11 days
By Elliott Brack | The 66th Gwinnett County Fair will open its gates on September 16 and run for 11 days, closing September 26. The 2020 Fair was cancelled because of the pandemic, but officials are hoping that the 2021 Fair can be held with restrictive policies to improve safety. The fair is held at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds in Lawrenceville, at 2405 Sugarloaf Parkway.
BRACK: Thank you, Mr. President, for getting our troops out of Afghanistan
SEPT. 3, 2021 | Thank you, President Biden. Thank you for taking the bold steps in leadership in getting out the last of our military troops entirely out of Afghanistan by your own August 31 deadline. You did what three other presidents did not or would not do. You also completed this evacuation in the face of unwarranted criticism of your actions.
BRACK: New Norcross library influenced by famed Frank Lloyd Wright
By Elliott Brack | The designs of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright are influencing the features of a new library now being built on Buford Highway in Norcross, facing into Lillian Webb Park. The library is no Falling Water, or Robie House or Guggenheim Museum, all designs of Wright. But as designed by Chad Smith of CAS Architecture in Lawrenceville, you can see the Wright features in several ways …
Gwinnett Forum | Nov. 26, 2024
“Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.”
— Editor-in-chief of the Washington Monthly Charles Peters (1926-2023).
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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