Today’s Mystery Photo appears to be something of a geometric design, with its horizontal slats, among layers of red. This might be an easier mystery than some before. Send in your thoughts to elliott@gwinnettforum.com and be sure to include your hometown.
Last edition’s Mystery Photo didn’t fool a few people. Lou Camerio of Lilburn was in first, identifying it as “the State Capitol Building of Hawaii in Honolulu. We had several opportunities to photograph dignitaries there during the two years I was stationed at Pearl Harbor. I believe that is a statue of Father Damien in the center.” The photo came from Sandy and Rick Krause, who vacationed there recently.
Ruthy Lachman Paul, Norcross tells us more about the building: “The capitol of Hawaii was built in 1969 and designed by Architect John Carl Warnecke, based in San Francisco, Calif., who designed numerous notable monuments and structures in the ‘Modernist-Bauhaus’ style.”
George Graf of Palmyra, Va. says that the statue prominently displayed in front of the Capitol building is of Father/Saint Damien: “He was born Jozef De Veuster, and was a Roman Catholic missionary priest from Belgium. He won recognition for his ministry from 1873 to 1889 in the Kingdom of Hawaii to people with leprosy, who were required to live under a government-sanctioned medical quarantine on the island of Molokai. After 16 years’ caring for the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of those in the leper colony, Father Damien died of leprosy. He has been described as a “martyr of charity.” He was the tenth person in what is now the United States to be recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church.”
LAGNIAPPETime to head for summer fun at Gwinnett swimming pools
Pools within Gwinnett are now drawing kids and other water lovers. Roving Photographer Frank Sharp clicked his image at the new Rhodes Jordan Pool in Lawrenceville last week.
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