Mystery photos
MYSTERY PHOTO: See if know where this bubbling fountain is located
Yes, here is a fountain for our readers to identify today. Tell us where you think this fountain is located and you’ll be recognized as the Mystery Photo winner of the day! Send your ideas to Elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
Iowa native Matthew Holtcamp of Buford wrote of the last Mystery Photo: “You didn’t think I wouldn’t recognize a statue from my own hometown did you?
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s a maritime setting to mull
Here’s a maritime setting with a distinctive bridge. Figure out where this photograph was taken and send your answer to elliott@brack.net, including your hometown.
Photo by Andy Brack
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, came up with the identity of the last mystery. He writes: “What first struck me as odd about the lighthouse was its location and surroundings….
MYSTERY PHOTO: This lighthouse seeks to extend your imagination
Yep, another lighthouse for today’s mystery. This time you should extend your imagination of where this particular lighthouse might be. Let’s see if this mystery is difficult for our readers. Send your guess to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.
Perhaps many of our readers haven’t been to Buford lately. For that is the location of last week’s Mystery Photo. George Graf of Palmyra, Va. pinpointed it: “This is the Stonehedge Garden Club’s Daylily Sculpture,…
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s another artist’s conception to identify and locate
For the mystery for this issue, it’s a sculpture. Not only must you figure out where this piece of art is located, but also tell us what it represents. You might be surprised. Send your idea to elliott @ brack.net and tell us your hometown.
Sara Rawlins of Lawrenceville recognized last week’s mystery. “This sculpture is made up of several fire hydrants to look like the old fashion toy: Jacks.
MYSTERY PHOTO: Bright red objects are for you to guess about today
Today’s mystery is a bright structure alongside a highway. Figure out first what it is, then where it is and send your idea to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
Last week, Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill not only recognized the Mystery Photo as the Chapel In the Hills in Rapid City, South Dakota…
MYSTERY PHOTO: You may think this mystery is in a rain-soaked area
Here’s a photo of distinctive building for our readers to ponder as the Mystery Photo. It gives the impression of possibly being in Scandinavia or some other rain-soaked area. Figure out where this building is and send your answer to elliott@brack.net, including your hometown.
First in with the answer to the last Mystery Photo was Lou Camerio, Lilburn, for the second straight issue. He recognized Mount Adams in Washington state.
MYSTERY PHOTO: You must look “up” to this issue’s offering
Instead of a lighthouse at low levels, let’s look up this week at this gorgeous snow-capped mountain. No doubt many GwinnettForum readers have seen it. Now, exactly where is it? Send your answer to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.
Lou Camerio of Lilburn was the first to recognize a lighthouse in Burlington, Vt., on Lake Champlain.
MYSTERY PHOTO: Another lighthouse, but it’s a short one!
The height of the lighthouse in today’s Mystery Photo might give you a clue as to its location. Figure out where you think this photograph was taken, then send your answer to elliott@brack.net and send along your hometown, too. … Allan Peel wrote: “Today’s mystery photo is a picture of the Groundhog Mountain Lookout Tower at Mile post 188.8 along the Blue Ridge Parkway approximately five-miles south of Laurel Fork, Va. This site includes the old Groundhog Hill Cemetery.
Gwinnett Forum | May 7, 2024
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
— Attributed to American Poet and Essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882.)
2024 PRIMARY CANDIDATES
Below are links to the ballots Gwinnett voters face in the May 21 voting.
NONPARTISAN CANDIDATE ANSWERS
To read answers to four questions posted by GwinnettForum to non-partisan candidates, click here. Answers in partisan races are forthcoming.
ENDORSED CANDIDATES
- Click here to read about Gwinnett candidates endorsed by GwinnettForum.
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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