Issue 12.14 | Friday, May 18, 2012

TODAY'S FOCUS
:: Arts camps coming to the Hudgens

ELLIOTT BRACK'S PERSPECTIVE
:: The Fleas Come with the Dog, others

FEEDBACK
:: Airport survey; what -- statesmen?

UPCOMING
:: Armed Forces remembrance, more

NOTABLE
:: Saving old house, LEED buildings

ALSO INSIDE

IN THE SPOTLIGHT
:: Wages and Sons Funeral Homes

RECOMMENDED
:: Calico Joe

GEORGIA TIDBIT
:: Savannah's early city plan

GWINNETT CALENDAR
:: Lots of events on tap

LAGNIAPPE
:: New international terminal

TODAY'S QUOTE
:: About freedom of thought

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TODAY'S FOCUS
Hudgens Center schedules summer art camps for kids up to 18
By KELLY HAGGARD OLSON
Special to GwinnettForum

DULUTH, Ga., May 18, 2012 -- Summer art camps at the Hudgens Center for the Arts are a way to keep your kids and teens busy over the long, hot summer. The Hudgens has three different camps set for this summer:

• A Color Wheel art camp for children ages 5 to 12;
  
  
• A Summer Pottery camp for older kids ages 8 to 14; and
  
  
• A Teen Summer Portfolio Development Intensive for teens ages 14 to 18.

Color Wheel Summer Camp for younger kids meets from 10 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. daily. Campers will rotate through three sessions each day with fine art instruction in drawing and painting, clay, and mixed media. A strong emphasis will be placed on technique and craftsmanship. Sessions will conclude with a mini exhibition of the works created. Color Wheel camp weeks are one-week sessions meeting each week in June. Cost for one week is $175 for members of the Hudgens Center or $200 for non-members.

Summer Pottery Camp, ages 8 to 14, meets from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily, during the weeks of July 9-13 and 16-20. This camp is all about clay! Campers will learn pottery wheel techniques and create their own functional forms. They will also learn handbuilding and how to create sculptural forms, as well as how to finish and glaze their pieces. Cost for one week is $250 for members and $275 for non-members, and includes both clay and glaze materials.

The Teen Summer Portfolio Development Intensive is intended for any young artist thinking about applying to art school, who might be worried whether their portfolio is good enough. Students will spend time sharing their work with an experienced artist and instructor, and learning their own strengths and weaknesses. The instructor will work individually with each student to create projects to fill any gaps in their body of work. This class will help develop a strong, comprehensive portfolio. The Teen Portfolio Intensive meets from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., July 23-27. The fee is $120 for members and $145 for non-members.

Spaces are limited for the camps, so register now to ensure a spot. Complete descriptions and online registration are available on the website under Education/Summer Art Camps at www.thehudgens.org. Registrations can also be made by phone at 770-623-6002, through the mail using the printable registration form from the Web site, or in person in the gift shop. The Hudgens is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesdays through Saturdays.

The Hudgens Center for the Arts is a non-profit organization that has been focused on supporting the arts in Georgia since its establishment in 1981. The Hudgens presents fine art exhibits year round, and offers art classes for adults and children through its Fine Arts School. It supports local community-based arts organizations through its programs, exhibits and partnerships. The Hudgens' mission is to bring art lovers, leaders and learners together through quality programs and exhibits.

The Hudgens Center for the Arts is located at 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Building 300, in Duluth, in the Gwinnett Center complex. For more information about art exhibits, events and classes at the Hudgens, visit the Web site or call 770-623-6002.

ELLIOTT BRACK
Check out this list of favorite books and authors
By ELLIOTT BRACK
Editor and publisher

MAY 18, 2012 -- All of us have favorite authors. You may enjoy reading about some of mine. These are in no particular order, and often I'll list only one title, while the author may have written other good work.

• Brack

  Roark Bradford, Ol' Man Adam and His Chillun, a 1930's recounting of Bible stories, in the black vernacular. Not too politically correct today, but brilliant understanding of the language and the Bible.
  
  
• The late John McDonald's series on Travis McGee. Each title has a color in it. Understated if anything, but well done. He knows South Florida well, and was one of the first writing about the environment there.
  
  
• Ferrell Sams, Run with the Horseman. He is a Fayette County doctor, still living and writing with understanding and humor.
  
  
• Clyde Edgerton, The Floatplane Notebooks, North Carolina writer, with a fine touch.
  
  
• William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying. He writes about one fictional county in Mississippi, and its many facets. Google to read his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a brilliant piece.
  
  
• T.R. Pearson, A Short History of a Small Place. Either you like this writer, or you don't. He writes long sentences, like Faulkner. Just pause where there are commas, and get the cadence right, and his thought can come through. His second book has a first sentence that goes for a page and a half....and I understood it!
  
  
• Terry Kay, The Year the Lights Came on in Georgia, fascinating first person account.
  
  
• The late Paul Hemphill, King of the Road. An Atlanta writer, his writings are prolific. This is an account of his truck-driving father.
  
  
• Ralph McGill, The Fleas Come with the Dog. The Atlanta Constitution editor for years, cussed by much of the South, was at the same time the South's conscience.
  
  
• Janisse Ray, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood. Writing out of Baxley, Ga., she switches chapters back and forth between a personal story, and the ecology of Southern forest. It's a fascinating technique which comes off quite well.
  
  
• Melissa Faye Greene. Praying for Sheetrock is the best, I think, while The Temple Bombing gives insight into Atlanta. Her Last Man Out, about a Nova Scotia coal mine disaster, tells how the 1958 Georgia governor impacted this story and how modern segregation began on Jekyll Island.
  
  
• Jimmy Carter, An Hour Before Daylight. His best book by far, many say.
  
  
• Joe Dabney, Mountain Spirits, about the how, why and when of moonshine in the North Georgia and southern mountains.
  
  
• Gary Pomerantz, Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, about the Allen and Dobbs families, white and black, and how they impact Atlanta. Maynard Jackson was from the Dobbs line, and Ivan Allen from the Allen line.
  
  
• Donna Leon writes beautifully in short novels about Venice, and a police inspector. You get a lot of insights about Venice, about Italy, about food, and about his family.
  
  
• Alexander McCall Smith is a prolific Scot author. From a book about the first female detective in Botswana, to writing about a six year old prodigy in Edinburgh, he's great. He even writes serially in the Scotsman. We heard him talk in Atlanta, baldheaded and wearing kilts, very tall (about 6' 4") and he kept us in stitches with his stories. Laughs harder at his stories than anyone.
  

Whew! This ought to be enough for several weeks. Of course, order through the Internet, and find bargains. (Go to Fetchbooks. There I just bought a new $25 book for $4.50. Amazing the bargains you can find.)

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FEEDBACK
Bemoans shortcoming of any "robo" call to landline phones

Editor, the Forum:

Reading the Briscoe Field Minority Report, I was fine with it until I got to the paragraph about the poll done for Propeller Investments, who has the only proposal outstanding, showing a supposedly 84 percent approval factor.

As I pointed out last year, those results were from a 'robo' poll, an automated recording asking questions to anyone who answered their landline phone, whether they were of voting age or residents of Gwinnett County. It consisted of reading a number of supposedly positives about the privatization and then asking if citizens were in favor of it. For example (and I am paraphrasing) "If you knew privatizing Briscoe Field would save the county $1.0 million a year, would you be in favor of it?"

Perhaps the county could manage the airport better and even save more money, but no options were given. The survey neither asked for, nor mentioned, any negatives, depriving respondents from expressing their feelings on the issue without the biased prompting by the automated voice.

This is the same technique currently used by Untie Atlanta, who are supporting the T-SPLOST sales tax. Robo calling states the sponsor's position and then asks if the survey respondents agree with it or not.

A spokesperson from the news media, whom I know, said that in response to my comment about such robo poll bias, "Surely people would see through such a poll." Of course the authors of the Minority Report did not because they quoted it as though such a poll has merit for any decision.

Such a poll has no validity at all and violates many basic polling industry standards and practices of sound survey research. In legal terminology, this would be known as a "fatally flawed" survey.

The Minority Report is correct, however, that the 1,600 or so comments sent in opposition to the privatization is not a valid count of the true opposition, because those strongly against such issues tend to be the more vocal ones.

-- Jim Nelems, Peachtree Corners

Wouldn't non-partisan elections require statesmen running?

Editor, the Forum:

Don't want to be too cynical about this, but to make this Non-Partisan Election idea work, Gwinnett would have to have statesmen running for office and not "Pure Politicians."

The politicians spend a lot of their time trying hide what they really believe and replacing what they truly believe with what they think we want them to believe. If they have a party affiliation, we know what they believe...or do we? There I went and did it: I was too cynical.

-- Alex J. Ortolano, Duluth

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UPCOMING
County hosts Armed Forces Day Remembrance this Saturday

Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation will host Armed Forces Day Remembrance on Saturday, May 19, to pay tribute to men and women who have served or presently are a part of the United States' armed forces. The event will be held on the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse grounds in downtown Lawrenceville from 10:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.

Displays will feature mock military campsites, uniform clad military re-enactors, and military vehicles. There will be food concessions, music, and entertainment in the gazebo. This free family event is made possible by the sponsorships of Tom Wages Funeral Service and Conder Flags of Atlanta.

A Breakfast with the Veterans will be held at 8:30 a.m. that same day for those pre-registered. The cost for the breakfast is $9 per person and will allow participants the opportunity to meet with veterans, hear presentations by active duty and retired U.S. military, and take a guided tour of the Gwinnett Veterans Memorial Museum. Registration for the breakfast must be made in advance by calling the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse at 770-822-5450.

Four local seniors recognized by UGA as Promising Scholars

Four Gwinnett high school seniors are among 16 students recognized as 2012 Promising Scholars by the University of Georgia Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities. They are Dacula High's Megan Chesne, Peachtree Ridge High's Lindsay Dahora and Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology's Melissa Jennings and Anjali Kumar.

During a two-day visit to campus, the Promising Scholars got to attend the CURO Symposium, where more than 190 undergraduates presented their research projects produced under the guidance of faculty mentors.

Chesne will attend UGA in the fall as a CURO Honors Scholar. She says: "I especially enjoyed meeting the current CURO Honors Scholars during my visit. Their candid insight provided me with a much clearer view of what life will be like at UGA."

Dahora, who is from Lawrenceville, said: "I think undergraduate research, especially for science majors like me, is a fundamental learning experience and will allow me to obtain new skills and determine what type of career I really want to have."

Jennings, who is from Buford, and Kumar, who is from Lawrenceville, also will be CURO Honors Scholars. Jennings says: "My favorite part of the visit was eating lunch with the CURO Honors Scholars Panel, which gave us a chance to leisurely ask questions about CURO, UGA and college life."

Kumar adds: "I enjoyed learning about the research that CURO Honors Scholars are currently conducting, and how they came to find their mentors and research projects."

UGA's Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities was created to foster a culture of inquiry by providing opportunities for undergraduates to be engaged in research guided and supported by faculty mentors. For more information, visit this site.

NOTABLE
Contractor to preserve historic house at Environmental Center

Gwinnett commissioners Tuesday accepted ownership of the historic Chesser-Williams House and a donation of $25,000 to help move and preserve it. The house and money came from the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center Foundation. SPLOST sales tax funds will cover the rest of a $319,130 house-moving contract with low bidder Peachtree Construction Services, Inc. of Decatur.

The Chesser-Williams House is one of the oldest surviving homes in Gwinnett County, built in the mid-1800s. Folk art paintings inside and out are likely the work of an itinerant German artist who painted in exchange for room and board as he traveled from North Carolina to Texas in the late 1800s. The Chesser-Williams House is one of seven surviving buildings where its rare paintings are intact.

Jerald and Sue Williams donated the house to the Foundation, which agreed to relocate it to the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center campus for education and historic interpretation purposes. Jerald Williams says: "My family feels it's very important that this house be preserved for future generations to enjoy and learn about Gwinnett's rich heritage." The Foundation has paid more than $76,000 for research, historic documentation and preparations for the move.

Contractors will move the house in three sections from its current location on Georgia Highway 124/Braselton Highway in northeastern Gwinnett. They will reassemble it on the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center campus near the Mall of Georgia as part of an educational exhibit on early farm life in Gwinnett County. The work will take about nine months.

For more information, visit www.gwinnettehc.org or call the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center at (770) 904-3500.

Two Gwinnett County buildings get LEED Gold certifications

Gwinnett County announces two LEED® Gold certifications have been gained for government buildings. They are for the Gwinnett Senior Services Center and the new Operations Center at the Yellow River Water Reclamation Facility.

LEED is the nation's preeminent program for the design, construction and operation of high-performance green buildings. The U.S. Green Building Council establishes criteria and the Green Building Certification Institute verifies them.

Water Resources' Ron Peters said, "Our Yellow River Operations Center won all possible points for water efficiency and design innovation. It reduces indoor water use by more than 62 percent compared to a typical building. We recycled more than 92 percent of our construction waste - 990 tons of concrete, metal, wood and gypsum."

The Senior Services Center, at 567 Swanson Drive in Lawrenceville, opened in December 2010. It's a one-story facility on 6.4 acres where seniors' needs are matched with available resources such as information and assistance, counseling and care management. The $1.6 million building used funds from the federal stimulus program and Community Development Block Grants.

More lanes open on Georgia Highway 20 near Grayson

Two lanes eastbound of Georgia Highway 20 from Grayson are now open from Ozora Road to Brand Road, the Georgia Department of Transportation says. Paving continues westbound along the project.

The project widens Highway 20 to a four lane divided highway from Cooper/Ozora Roads to Brand Road. The estimated construction cost is $10.9 million for this 2.7 mile long project. As of April 30, 2011 the project was 90 percent complete. Gary's Grading and Pipeline Inc. is the project's contractor.

RECOMMENDED
Calico Joe
By John Grisham

"John Grisham is best known for weaving intrigue through the antics of attorneys. The continual arrival of such books is formulaic, with me losing interest in them. However, he has also written two distinctive books about baseball. His current, Calico Joe, approaches a subject all baseball lovers enjoy, the possible record. Though not probable, Grisham develops the subject, including merging of a parallel story, through a father-son angle. It's a good tale, spun well, which displaces the standard view of Grisham books. This is a great way to be taken to the old ball game."---eeb

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GEORGIA ENCYCLOPEDIA
Savannah city plan stands out among colonial town plans

(Continued from previous edition)

The area of the original Savannah city plan was included in a National Historic Landmark District designation in 1966. This district received further protection in 1973 when a Historic Review Board was established. The appointed members of the board see that the buildings surrounding the squares are visually compatible and appropriate in scale, and thus they define the plan.

As a synthesis of planning ideals that respond to social, military, environmental, and philosophical needs, the Savannah plan stands out among American colonial town plans. The plan continues to adapt favorably to contemporary needs by providing a model for new urban developments.

Savannah's plan is among the most researched and analyzed in the history of American city planning. There are several theories about the influences and sources from which its distinctive layout was derived.

John Reps sees it as a derivation of settlements established by the British in Northern Ireland in the 17th century, with which Oglethorpe was familiar. Other scholars still support the 1885 claim by Savannah historian William Harden that architect Robert Castell, a friend of Oglethorpe's who later died in a London, England, debtors' prison, provided Georgia's founder with the inspiration for his plan. In his book Villas of the Ancients Illustrated (1728), Castell cited principles of the Roman architect Vitruvius that are directly reflected in Oglethorpe's design. Other theories credit garden designs from the royal estates of George II or the new plan for London devised after the great fire of 1666 as significant influences on Savannah's design.

The first drawing of the plan, entitled "A View of Savannah as it Stood the 29th of March, 1734" is also the source of scholarly debate. There is widespread disagreement about what artist was responsible for this document and considerable speculation about the accuracy of the drawing.

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TODAY'S QUOTE
Why you never see people demanding freedom of thought

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

-- Danish intellectual Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855).

MORE COPIES AVAILABLE
Gwinnett history book in second printing

Previously out of print, Elliott Brack's 850-page history, "Gwinnett: A Little Above Atlanta," is now available again. Since its original publication, the book was declared the winner of the 2010 Award of Excellence for documenting Georgia history by the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board. It is also the winner of the Gwinnett Historical Society's Whitworth-Flanigan Award for 2011 for preserving the history of Gwinnett County.The book includes 143 demographic and historic tables, with more than 4,000 names in the index, and 10,000 names in the appendix.Two versions of the book are available. The hardback edition is priced at $75, while a softback edition is $40. Books are available at:

• Atlanta History Center, Atlanta
• Books for Less, Buford
  
• Gwinnett Historical Society, Lawrenceville
  
• Parsons Gifts and Cards, Duluth
  
• Vargas and Harbin Gallery, Norcross

You can also order books through the Internet. To do that, go to www.elliottbrack.com to place your order. For mail orders, there is a $5 shipping and handling fee. Purchases are also subject to the 6 percent Georgia sales tax.

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GWINNETT CALENDAR

IN THE COMING WEEK

Beauty and the Beast Ballet, presented by Northeast Atlanta Ballet at Gwinnett Center in Duluth: 7:30 p.m., May 18, and 3 p.m., May 20.

Boat Show and Sugarloaf Leisure Living Tour: 10 a.m to 4 p.m. on May 18 and 19. Hosted by Sugarloaf Country Club Charities; among the beneficiaries will be the Duluth-based Foster Children's Foundation. The Tour will showcase the outdoor living spaces and indoor terrace levels of four homes. The boat show will be at the TPC Sugarloaf Country Club! More info online.

15th Annual Norcross Car Show: 8 a.m. until 4 p.m., May 19, in downtown Norcross. Proceeds benefit medical scholarships. For more info, call Liz or Dodger DeLeon at 770-448-2664 or send email.

(NEW) Operation Good Neighbor: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., May 19. This event will allow Gwinnettians a chance to join a volunteer group and help clean up Gwinnett. Work is concentrated on Burns Road in Lilburn, Cruse Road in Lawrenceville, and Meadow Church Road in Duluth. Learn more and register here.

Eighth Annual Beach Bash: 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., May 19, Braselton. Festival to be in downtown Park, and features many activities, including arts, crafts and food vendors, plus musicians. Event is free. More info.

(NEW) Peach State Opera: 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., May 19, at In the Garden at Honest Alley, 178 Crogan St., Lawrenceville. The concert is free. For more information, call 770 962-0348.

Music Recital by two seniors: 7:30 p.m., May 21, Pearce Auditorium, Brenau University. Performing will be Tenor Jeff Akana, from Suwanee, and Trumpeter Matt Scout of Flowery Branch. The program is free and open to the public. More info.

Grand opening of Cavanna Packaging USA: 2:30 p.m., May 24, 2150 Northmont Parkway, Duluth. The subsidiary of a global Italian company is moving its North American headquarters to Duluth. Program will include remarks by Riccardo Cavanna, CEO of the firm, located in Prato Sesia, Italy. Details: lbrady@gwinnettchamber.org, or call 770 232-1174.

SOON AND ONGOING

Book signing by former Atlanta Braves Pitcher John Smoltz: 6 p.m., May 25. CoolRay Field, Lawrenceville. This event is free for ticket holders of Friday's game. A portion of the proceeds benefit the Gwinnett Public Library, sponsor of the event. Info: www.gwinnettpl.org, call (770) 978-5154.

Memorial Day Parade in Dacula: 10 a.m., May 28. Bill Tiller, a Korean War veteran of the U.S. Navy, will be the Grand Marshal. Theme for the 19th annual parade is "Their Sacrifice, Our Gratitude." A one-mile Fun Run begins at 8 a.m. and a 5K run starts at 8:30 a.m. For more information, send email.

(NEW) Career and Job Fair at Gwinnett Village Community Alliance: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., June 22, Victory World Church, 50905 Brook Hollow Parkway, Norcross. Approximately 30 employers will be there. This is the Alliance's third Fair. Learn more by email or call 770-402-4697.

MORE EEB PERSPECTIVE

7/13: Local, judicial endorsements 7/10: Legislative endorsements 7/6: Fed, state endorsements 7/3: Questions for candidates 6/29: Stopping by to visit 6/26: CIDs get good news 6/22: Reject T-SPLOST 6/19: Solution to KKK flap 6/15: Founders' Day 6/12: Honesty, ethics are key 6/8: Endorsements to come 6/5: On bad government 6/1: Gwinnett Dems active 5/30: Ballot surprises 5/25: Question for ballot 5/22: GOP and ethics 5/18: Favorite books 5/15: Non-partisan elections needed 5/11: Norcross adds smoking ban 5/8: How many traffic slgnals are there? 5/4: Beautiful Crystal Bridges Museum 5/1: Afghanistan to tongue-twisters 4/27: Remembering Vic Nickelson 4/24: T-SPLOST vote ahead 4/20: Waffle House founder 4/17: Briscoe Field update 4/13: Casino gambling here? 4/10: 10,000 unread emails 4/6: Primerica's 2 co-CEOs 4/3: E-SPLOST funding fight 3/27: Corrections proposal 3/23: Two theatres 3/20: P'tree Corners boundaries 3/16: How government protects 3/13: Springtime, gas taxes 3/9: Bigger might not be better 3/6: New business association 3/2: Peachtree Corners' boundaries EEB index of columns

FOCUS ARCHIVES

7/13: Ashley: Don't sit for hours 7/10: Lundy: Look at aquifers 7/6: Mendel: Creative Enterprises 7/3: Clarke: Priesthood to marriage 6/29: Escalona: Beep kickball 6/26: Reilly: Remembering Herb Green 6/22: Calmes: Gwinnett Ballet moves 6/19: Townsend: Cars for teens 6/15: Godfrey: Seashore's pull 6/12: Ramey: GGC transforming 6/8: Myers: Fire responders 6/5: Olson: New at Hudgens 6/1: Henry: On school measure 5/30: Fowler: Greater Norcross 5/25: Stinson: Ptree Crs budget 5/22: Durant: Baldwin's service 5/18: Olson: Hudgens' art camps 5/15: Beck: More 10-minute plays 5/11: Morris: Fink championed democracy 5/8: Morriss: Honor Flight 5/4: McBrayer: Sugar Hill's new digs 5/1: Wilson: 1st Relay for Life 4/27: Stephens: Briscoe study 4/24: Gerstein: Remembering King 4/20: Summerour: Taiwan trip 4/13: Warbington: Romania 4/10: Tyler: Chamber music 4/6: Cerjan: Relay for Life 4/3: Tucker: Pug prance 3/27: Duke: Lilburn scholar 3/23: Calmes: Duluth festival 3/20: Anderson: Grant winner 3/16: Hunter: Empowering girls 3/13: Bass: Schools' training 3/9: Collins: NC casino 3/6: Stilo: Clyde 'n Bonnie to open 3/2: Stout: Unitarian minister COMMENTARY INDEX

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