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NEW for JULY 4: IAAM opens in Charleston, more from Gwinnett
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TODAY’S FOCUS: International African American Museum opens in Charleston
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Banking Company
FEEDBACK: Affirmative Action probably kept him out of law practice
UPCOMING: Leadership Gwinnett announces 44 for class of 2024
NOTABLE: Gwinnett Tech Respiratory unit gets credentialing award
RECOMMENDED: Nature’s Best Hope, by Douglas W. Tallamy
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Paschal’s Restaurant was mecca for civil rights movement
MYSTERY PHOTO: A flowing water fountain in moonlight is today’s mystery
LAGNIAPPE: Patchwork stays at Hudgens Center through July 22
CALENDAR: Viva Las Duluth is Saturday, July 8 on the Green in Downtown
MYSTERY: Don’t let clues fool you as you identify this photograph
Some of the clues in this edition’s Mystery Photo may confuse you. Look beyond that and try to identify the location of today’s photograph. Send your answers to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown. Amy Perry, Lilburn easily spotted the most recent mystery: “I recognize today’s Mystery Photo. It is the Charleston City Market in Charleston, S.C.
MYSTERY PHOTO: Figure out where this terra-cotta statue is located
This edition’s Mystery Photo is of a recently-completed terra-cotta statue. Your job is to tell us where it is, and what it signifies. Send your answers to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
That Mystery Photo aerial view of a pond with an island in the shape of an airplane stumped all but the most eagle-eyed last week. Only George Graf of Palmyra, Va. and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. recognized the mystery.
3/3, full issue: On shopping carts, Georgia’s 2020 impact, debates
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Recognize that a Quarter for a Shopping Cart May Be Cheap Insurance
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Georgia’s Impact on the Presidential Race Getting Less and Less Likely
ANOTHER VIEW: Do Something To Reduce Frenzy at Presidential Debate
SPOTLIGHT: Renasant Bank
FEEDBACK: Another Consideration of What Causes Fluctuations in the Market
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Place Area To Get New Apartment Complex, The Rey
NOTABLE: Building with Earlier Functions Now Houses Kudzu Gallery and Studios
RECOMMENDED: Gods and Heroes: Myths and Epics of Ancient Greece by Gustav Schwab
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Whites, Blacks, and Other Persons Took Turns Exhorting Converts
MYSTERY PHOTO: Monumental Structure Over Street is New Mystery
LAGNIAPPE: Organizations Participate in Patriotic Observance in Gainesville
CALENDAR: Learn about the 1895 Cotton State Exposition Tonight at Environmental Center
5/9: New arts center; Great barbecue; Another take on D.C.
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Lawrenceville Announces $26 Million Arts and Cultural Center
EEB PERSPECTIVE: The Mouth Waters Quickly at Rodney Scott’s Barbecue in Charleston
ANOTHER VIEW: Here’s Another Take on Current Controversy in Washington
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett County Public Library
FEEDBACK: Two Cite Illegal Immigration As What They and Others Are Against
McLEMORE’S WORLD: Genetics
UPCOMING: Norcross and Kudzu Team Up With Juried Art Show
NOTABLE: Peach State Makes $5,000 Commitment to Northeast Georgia Libraries
RECOMMENDED: The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgians Have Always Had the Poor in Their Midst
MYSTERY PHOTO: Somewhat Fuzzy Photo Is This Edition’s Mystery Photograph
LAGNIAPPE: Peachtree Christian Health Breaking Ground for Remodeled Facility
CALENDAR: Performances By Two Area Symphonies Are on Tap
BRACK: Forgiveness captured in book by former Gwinnettian
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher, Charleston Currents | The whole notion of forgiveness has been in the front of many people’s minds in the weeks since the massacre at Emanuel AME Church. Just how, they wonder, could family members of the victims, one after another, forgive the accused shooter so quickly after such a reprehensible deed?
One pastor explains forgiving is the natural, almost instinctive reaction of people whose lives are based on a deep faith in God. Because of faith, they already feel forgiven for the sins they confess to their maker. When an evil was done to members of their family, forgiveness was the way for the faithful person to cope and react.
Gwinnett Forum | Dec. 20, 2024
“….if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.”
— Canadian Author Robertson Davies (1913-1995).
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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