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6/3: GACS campaign; On Ty Cobb; Cruise with difference

6/3: GACS campaign; On Ty Cobb; Cruise with difference

Click here to read the latest edition. Inside:
TODAY’S FOCUS: GACS Raises $30 Million, Surpassing “Path Forward” Goal
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Authoritative Book about Ty Cobb Is Major Service to His Reputation
ANOTHER VIEW: How One Couple Enjoyed a Cruise with a Difference
SPOTLIGHT: United Community Bank
UPCOMING: Library Offers High School Diploma Through Online Program
NOTABLE: Suwanee Medical School Campus Sees Nearly 300 Students Get Degrees
RECOMMENDED: The Martian by Andy Weir
GEORGIA TIDBIT: I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang Is Literary Sensation in 1932
CALENDAR: Kids Fishing on Tap for Jones Bridge Park This Weekend
TODAY’S QUOTE: How Truth Gets To Be What It Is
MYSTERY PHOTO: Modernistic Building Design Was One Seen in Many Buildings
LAGNIAPPE: GACS Student Wins Key Award from School Musical Theatre

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by · June 3, 2016 · Full issues
This iconic photo by Charles M. Conlon shows Cobb stealing third base during the 1909 baseball season. Photo via Wikipedia.

BRACK: Authoritative book on Cobb is major service to his reputation

By Elliott Brack, publisher, GwinnettForum | A sports author has done the state of Georgia and Ty Cobb, in particular, a major service. Author Charles Leerhsen of Brooklyn, N. Y. has published an authoritative biography: Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty. The book enhances and clarifies the reputation of Georgia’s “Big Peach,” who was maybe the most controversial player in baseball. The book won the 2015 Casey Award for the best baseball book of the year.

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by · June 3, 2016 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
Aerial view of GACS campus

FOCUS: GACS raises $30 million, surpassing “Path Forward” goal

By Margie Asef | Greater Atlanta Christian School has announced that it surpassed its $29.7 million capital campaign goal — raising a total of $30 million.

Titled “The Path Forward,” the campaign is the largest in GACS’ 48-year history.

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by · June 3, 2016 · Today's Focus
LOEBER: How one couple enjoyed a cruise with a difference

LOEBER: How one couple enjoyed a cruise with a difference

By Tamara Loeber | “Why are you here?” This was a question Donny and I heard repeatedly while onboard Fathom Travel’s second-ever cruise to the Dominican Republic a few weeks ago. We heard it again on the island at the beach, when planting trees on an impossibly green mountaintop, and while teaching English in a sixth-grade classroom in a local elementary school.

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by · June 3, 2016 · Another View
MYSTERY: Modernistic building design seen in many buildings

MYSTERY: Modernistic building design seen in many buildings

Today’s Mystery Photo looks to be a smaller version of the design of buildings from not too many years ago. Somehow, it reminds us of a onetime look of the Norcross Post Office, before it was re-vamped to the present Norcross City Hall. Send in your guess as to where this is to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include your hometown.

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by · June 3, 2016 · Mystery photos
6/1: On Norcross market, line insurance, blame

6/1: On Norcross market, line insurance, blame

Click here to see the latest issue. Inside:

TODAY’S FOCUS: Redefined Norcross Community Market To Open Saturday, June 4
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Letter Offering Water Service Line Insurance Gets To Me
ANOTHER VIEW: Get Off the President’s Back and Put the Blame Where It Belongs
SPOTLIGHT: Peach State Federal Credit Union
FEEDBACK: Thought on Changing Voting Dates and A Bridge Too Far
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Tech Hosting Two Adjunct Hiring Fairs in June
NOTABLE: GGC School of Business Names Dr. Tyler Yu as Its New Dean
RECOMMENDED: An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Emma Cheves Wilkins of Savannah Achieves Artistic Legacy
TODAY’S QUOTE: Something You May Not Have Realized About Comic Strips
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s All Sorts of Converging Bits of Architecture to Give You Clues
LAGNIAPPE: Duluth DAR, City of Dacula Remember Veterans

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by · June 1, 2016 · Full issues
BRACK: Letter offering water service line insurance really gets to me

BRACK: Letter offering water service line insurance really gets to me

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Every now and then, something comes along that really gets under my skin. One recent letter did it. It was from a company called “HomeServe,” and listed a local post office number in Marietta to reply to. We found the firm was out of Norwalk, Conn. See if this letter gets you going …

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by · June 1, 2016 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
FOCUS: Redefined Norcross Community Market to open Saturday, June 4

FOCUS: Redefined Norcross Community Market to open Saturday, June 4

By Connie Weathers | “A place to imagine.” It’s a simple phrase that evokes emotion and a sense of pride for families living in Norcross.

Beautifully maintained and passionately promoted, the City of Norcross is a community where anyone could imagine themselves happy, healthy and thriving. Those are the same feelings that Sustainable Norcross, the local nonprofit hosting the market, hopes to extend to the Norcross Community Market opening on June 4.

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by · June 1, 2016 · Today's Focus
LEAPHART: Get off the president’s back and put the blame where it belongs

LEAPHART: Get off the president’s back and put the blame where it belongs

By Alvin Leaphart, attorney-at-law, Jesup, Ga. | At the time Bill Clinton left office and George Bush took over, this country was on a sound financial footing. During the Bush administration we suffered the 911 Attack. As the result we attacked Iraq, destroyed the Iraqi Army, essentially killed Saddam Hussein, and destroyed the balance of power in the Mid-East.

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by · June 1, 2016 · Another View
PHOTOS: Converging bits of architecture offers clues

PHOTOS: Converging bits of architecture offers clues

Today’s Mystery Photo doesn’t give you much of a landmark that you can easily identify, but one thing we can tell you: it’s not taken in our hometown of Allentown, Ga. See if you can figure out where all these converging bits of architecture is located. Send in your thoughts to elliott@gwinnettforum.com and be sure to include your hometown. ALSO: Duluth DAR places flags on vets’ graves; Dacula hosts Memorial Day Parade.

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by · June 1, 2016 · Mystery photos, Photo essay
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