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Mailbag
full, so here are thoughts
of five writers to Feedback today
(JULY 30, 2002 - - Editor's Note: With a tremendous amount of
feedback recently, we thought we would feature letters this week.-eeb)
Editor, the Forum:
Think about ALL the major names change when crossing Lawrenceville
Highway! Jimmy Carter Boulevard becomes Mountain Industrial Boulevard;
Indian Trail to Killian Hill; Beaver Ruin to Arcado Road. Pleasant
Hill to Lester road, etc. Bet you don't know why Arcado is so named....
- - Don Printz, Tucker
Editor's note: Dear Doctor Printz: Can't let this one go by
without replying.. Arcado was named when Paul Dover, O.D. Cain
and Weldon B. Archer were our three county commissioners, back
in 1949. They used the first two letters of their last names,
giving us AR-CA-DO. ---eeb
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Editor, the Forum:
The book "Brunelleschi's Dome," by Ross King, sounds
interesting. I will definitely get it.
Let me recommend Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth? It is a novel,
centered around building a small cathedral in England during the
same period. The son of the original builder went to Paris (?) and
saw what they were doing there, went back home and changed the structure
to include a dome, if I remember right. A long, but great read if
you haven't already read it.
- - Phylecia Wilson, Snellville
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Editor, the Forum:
Let's hope that people will know who they are going to vote for
before they are standing before the new voting machine. If they
don't, that could be compounded with how to operate the new voting
machine.
- - Kathy Gestar, Snellville
Editor's note: Kathy: Gwinnett gets the new computer voting
machines not for the primary, but for the General Election. Each
Gwinnett precinct will have a demo model of the new election computer
during the primary. Check it out. Meanwhile, we'll have a report
on the new machines prior to the November voting.--eeb
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Editor, the Forum:
Randy Yelverton doesn't get it (re: the Griggs lady.) People like
him never will. He hasn't "been there."
You know that I have "been there," very involved in the
Gwinnett community during the 70's and 80's. (Rotary, Clean and
Beautiful and a pile of other civic activities, many with direct
contact with all County Commissioners).
I also appreciated your attention to the road 'Road Name Changing."
To add even more to the confusion, just try to find a street address!!!!
Most commercial properties are not identified with a street number,
even though it is required by County ordinance.
How do the emergency people find anything in a commercial area?
All the owners seem to think that we know who all the tenants are
based on the name of the property. Where are our County enforcement
marshals?
- - E. F. Stuart, Norcross
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(Editor's note: A recent query about the descendents of the
family of Norcross produced this result.-eeb)
Editor, the Forum:
Sorry, old soul, but there could be as many as 20,000,000 plus
descendants alive today of old George Norcross from Ribchester,
England, in 1850, and I am only one of them.
Now my cousin Joe Norcross, who lives in Columbus, S.C, has been
(to Norcross) and according to one of his encounters with a local
Genealogist of repute, "they all come from Ribchester, all
them Norcross's."
If anyone ever needs information on Norcross's, I have a ton and
am researching them for my own family tree. I know of at least two
other complete trees available and I can point to many others looking
for their place in the family. Incidentally, all North American
Norcross's come from either Jeremiah (Massachusetts Bay Colony,
1632) or John (William Penn's Colony, 1699), both sons of Thomas,
the Haberdasher of London, England. Otis is descended from Jeremiah,
as am I.
- - Philip Norcross Gross, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (philipgross@rogers.com)
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