Mystery photos
MYSTERY PHOTO: Check the handsome, classical design of today’s mystery
Here’s a handsome photo of a classical design. Many of our readers may have seen it. Can you figure out what it is, and where it is located? Send your answers to elliott@brack.net and be sure to tell us the hometown where you live.
From the last edition and its mystery, Cathy Loew, Peachtree Corners, wrote: “Another deja vu moment! I’ve attended a wedding there too!” She identified the chapel at Simpsonwood Park in Peachtree Corners.
MYSTERY PHOTO: More sunshine would brighten up this building. Where is it?
Lots of shade from trees kept sunshine from brightening up this facility, but where is this Mystery Photo? Send your answer to Elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.
First in with the correct answer to the recent Mystery Photo was Lynn Naylor, Norcross: “Built in 1936, the ‘Chapel on the Rock,’ officially known as St. Catherine of Siena Chapel, is one of the most important landmarks of Colorado.
MYSTERY PHOTO: Check out this beautiful photo from the mountains area
How about this dramatic mountain photo! See if you can determine where and what this photo represents. Hint: it is not located in Georgia. Send your answer to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.
Rick Krause of Lilburn immediately recognized the recent Mystery Photo: “It’s the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse on the east coast of Florida, south of Daytona and Port Orange.
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s a colorful lighthouse for you to ponder
Readers keep sending in mystery photos of lighthouses. Here’s another, different primarily in color. Check it out and see if you can determine where it is located. Send your ideas to elliott@brack.net and include your home town.
First in with the right answer this edition was Stew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville: “The mystery is the South Dakota state capitol in Pierre.
MYSTERY PHOTO: Classical building is this edition’s mystery
Where, and what, is this Mystery Photo? Figure it out and send your answers to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
Cathy Loew of Peachtree Corners writes of the recent Mystery Photo: “I had a deja vu moment with this mystery picture. That view is mainly inaccessible from land (unless you want to maneuver the rocks).
MYSTERY PHOTO: Lighthouse on a cliff is this week’s mystery
GwinnettForum has not run through the nation’s vast number of lighthouses. Here’s one sitting on a cliff. Where is it? Send your answers to ellott@brack.net and include your hometown.
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. writes: “The last mystery photo is of the Owens-Thomas House, part of the Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters National Historic Landmark in the Historic District of Savannah.
MYSTERY PHOTO: Formally-designed, elegant household is today’s Mystery
Here’s an elegant residence, somewhat symmetrical in landscape design. Tell us more about this home, and include your name and hometown when you send to ellott@brack.net.
Recognizing the previous Mystery was Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill, who wrote: “This is Gythio, Greece, on the eastern shore of the Mani Peninsula.
MYSTERY PHOTO: Distant shoreline asks for its location
Here’s a single clue to this issue’s Mystery Photo: it’s not around here. Figure out where this photo was taken, and send your answer to Elliott@brack.net, including your hometown.
When is a Lighthouse not a Lighthouse? Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. sent in the recent Mystery Photo, which he explains: “It is a miniature model of the Phare de la Pointe-Mitis (Translation: Pointe-Mitis Lighthouse), a lighthouse located in a small village of Métis-sur-Mer in Quebec, Canada.
Gwinnett Forum | Nov. 22, 2024
“We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.”
– Etiquette Authority Judith Martin (1938 – ), also known as Miss Manners.
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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