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FOCUS: Blind Norcross grad wins perfect job at Library of Congress
By Timothy Jones | During my freshman year at Mercer, a student journalist once interviewed me. I told her that I wanted to eventually be somewhere serving God. If someone had told me then I would be serving Him in Washington, D.C.–making music available to the blind through braille music—I would never have believed it.
BRACK: Celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth
By Elliott Brack | The Bibb County Board of Education is heavily responsible for my early love of classical music. Back when I was in grammar school, the Macon school system employed a person to travel to its elementary schools with her small 78 rpm record player, and give the students a lesson in “music appreciation.”
8/6: New Hudgens exhibition; The music you hear; Briscoe Park
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Georgia’s Hudgens Art Prize Finalist Exhibit Will Open on August 10
EEB PERSPECTIVE: We Put Another Nickel In the Ways We Now Constantly Hear Music
ANOTHER VIEW: City of Snellville Seeks Ideas on Improving T.W. Briscoe Park
SPOTLIGHT: Primerica, Inc
FEEDBACK: Objects being put in a category according to definitions online
NOTABLE: Snellville Readying To Spend $762,000 in New Year on Public Works
RECOMMENDED: American Lion by Jon Meacham
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Clayton McMichen Was Respected Early Fiddle Performer
MYSTERY PHOTO: Classical Structure Welcomes Your Ideas as to Its Whereabouts
LAGNIAPPE: Monument to Heavyweight Champion on Historic Courthouse Lawn
CALENDAR: August 9 Marks Dog Days of Summer at Lilburn Farmers Market
BRACK: We put another nickel in the ways we now constantly hear music
By Elliott Brack | It’s amazing to me how much many of us spend on recorded music. From listening to individual tunes, to buying instruments to play these songs, to providing a few cents to the individual composers, not just Americans, but people all over the world shell out a lot of money for music.
Gwinnett Forum | Nov. 5, 2024
“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.”
– American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 – 1959).
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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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