Elliott Brack’s Perspective

Magnum Moon. Image via Oaklawn Jockey Club.

BRACK: Suddenly, among 64,500 people, there was an eerie feeling

By Elliott Brack | It was an eerie feeling.

Here we were at a sporting event along with 64,500 others, and all day, there was hubbub all around us, a loud buzz of voices continually yakking, no matter where you were.  People were excited and moving about.

We were in Hot Springs, Ark., at Oaklawn Park, where the ponies run. It was late in the day.

Part of all the moving around was, of course, going to and from the betting windows. Most of the long row of windows were stacked with five-seven-nine people, some putting down a new bet, a few cashing in their winning tickets.

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by · April 17, 2018 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Recalling an early memory of a favorite Gospel song in church

BRACK: Recalling an early memory of a favorite Gospel song in church

One of my earlier recollections came when about age 4-5-6, when going to church with my parents. It was at Walnut Creek Baptist Church, still a vibrant congregation near Allentown, Ga.

For some reason, at that young age, my favorite hymn was No. 70. Now what the name of that song was, I just don’t remember. But it might have been “I Feel Like Traveling On.”  You remember the lyrics.

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by · April 13, 2018 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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BRACK: Brand Bank potential sale cuts link with old-time banking in Gwinnett

APRIL 10, 2018  |  Reports last week that Brand Bank of Lawrenceville would be bought by a Mississippi bank in one way cut the link to old-time banking in Gwinnett County. After all, Brand Bank was the oldest of the locally owned banks in Gwinnett, founded in 1905, and the biggest, with $2.4 billion in assets.

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by · April 10, 2018 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Fulton leads Georgia in population growth; Gwinnett ranks second

BRACK: Fulton leads Georgia in population growth; Gwinnett ranks second

APRIL 6, 2018  | The big keep getting bigger.

That’s what the new Census Estimates of population growth tell us.  Big old Fulton County has beaten Gwinnett County in the actual number of new residents from one year to another for the second straight year.

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by · April 6, 2018 · Elliott Brack's Perspective

Today’s issue of GwinnettForum marks the beginning of our 18th year in business.

I retired from the Atlanta newspapers on April 1, and opened the next day an office in a friend’s extra space in Business Park in Norcross. A couple of years later, we moved offices to the former headquarters of Technology Park/Atlanta, then in unincorporated Norcross and now in Peachtree Corners. We’ve been here for 15 years.

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by · April 3, 2018 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Gwinnett may total more than 500,000 registered voters for primary

BRACK: Gwinnett may total more than 500,000 registered voters for primary

By Elliott Brack | Years ago, while at the Gwinnett County printing plant of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, when occasionally guiding groups on plant tours in the news print storage area, often people would ask ”How much newsprint do you use?”

We had the answer. In those days, we used a lot of newsprint, as they do today.  But after a while, since people could not comprehend and interpret the fine points of usage, I would just say “Big number.”

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by · March 30, 2018 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
3/27: Playing an instrument; Remembering Zell Miller; More

3/27: Playing an instrument; Remembering Zell Miller; More

Click here to read the latest issue. Inside:
TODAY’S FOCUS: It’s Never Too Late To Learn To Play A Musical Instrument
EEB PERSPECTIVE: An Instinctive Thought on the Governorship; Remembering Zell Miller
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Medical Center
FEEDBACK: Atlanta Didn’t Show Best Face for Sweet Sixteen at Philips Arena
McLEMORE’S WORLD: Brass Polish
UPCOMING: Snellville Adopts “Aggressive” Solicitation Ordinance for Parking Lots
NOTABLE: City Announces Snap Suwanee Photo Contest Winners
RECOMMENDED: The Cuban Affair by Nelson DeMille
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Prolific Author Harry Crews Often Wrote of Outlandish Characters
MYSTERY PHOTO: Today’s Mystery Photo Shows a Busy City; Now Where Is It?       
LAGNIAPPE: Roving Photographer’s Scenes from the Coastal City of Charleston, S.C.

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by · March 27, 2018 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: An instinctive thought on the governorship; Remembering Zell Miller

BRACK: An instinctive thought on the governorship; Remembering Zell Miller

MARCH 27, 2018  |  As you get older, you learn to trust your instincts.  You have no reason for thinking the way you are thinking, but you do.  After all, it’s instinctive.

Back in 2015 and up until the 2016 election, we felt that Hillary Clinton would not become the 45th president. We didn’t know why we felt that way. All this was before the Trump Movement. We thought that Hillary might get the nomination, but felt that she would not be our next president. We even wrote about this.

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by · March 27, 2018 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
This plaque hangs at the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce (Photo by Brooke Waters)

BRACK: Gwinnett’s “go-to” person, Patsy Rooks, served area well

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher  |  In Gwinnett’s formative years starting in 1970 and for the next 37 years, if there was someone in Gwinnett who was the “go to” person for about any question you had, it was Patsy Rooks. The Lawrenceville native, 76, died recently and was buried from Chestnut Grove Baptist Church on Sunday.

When she first came to the Chamber, it was located in the Stark Building, right off the courthouse square. Golden Pirkle of Buford, was the first full-time Chamber executive, starting in 1969, and he hired her.

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by · March 20, 2018 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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