The major clue for today’s mystery is that body of water in the foreground. That’s the only help we’ll give you today as you seek to identify this photograph. Send your ideas to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.
Sara Rawlins of Lawrenceville was among those recognizing the latest mystery. She wrote: “This a photo from Andy Brack’s vacation in and around St. John’s, Newfoundland.
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Having Affordable Health Care Should Not Be a Financial Burden
EEB PERSPECTIVE: There Are Several Reasons for Visiting Canada These Hot Times
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Village Community Improvement District
UPCOMING: County Calls for Six Year SPLOST Referendum on November Ballot
NOTABLE: Jackson EMC Promotes Two Long Term Employees in Restructuring
RECOMMENDED: Winston Churchill Reporting by Simon Read
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia Native George Foster Peabody Gave Back Liberally to the State
CALENDAR: Good Samaritan Health Clinic Plans Open House Monday Morning
TODAY’S QUOTE: When People Will Realize That You Are A Failure
MYSTERY PHOTO: How George Graf Identified the Recent Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: New Mural Surfaces at Key Suwanee Intersection
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | There are several reasons for you to visit Canada these days. We just returned from a nice trip to St. John’s, Newfoundland. Here are reasons to go to Canada now.
First, it’s cool. We left 95 degrees in Georgia, flew to Toronto, had a two-hour layover and arrived after nine hours’ travel in St. John’s to 50 degree weather. During the entire 10 days there, it never got beyond 72 degrees.
This edition’s Mystery Photo shows mansard roofs, reminding you of traditional architecture from an European castle. But are they? Figure out where this is and send your thoughts to elliott@gwinnettforum.com. Be sure to include your hometown.
ONLY ONE PERSON identified the cruise ship and location of the last Mystery Photo. It came from George Graf of Palmyra, Va., who said that the photo was taken from “The Battery which lies under the slopes of Signal Hill in St. John’s, Newfoundland.”
“Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
– The second president of the United States, John Adams (1735-1826).
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