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2^ GOOD MORNING Sunday, November 18, 2018 | gainesvilletimes.com The fascinating mystery that is the Dare Stone LOTTERY I Drawings for Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018 CASH 3 Midday: 1 -3-7 Evening: 7-5-7 Night: 2-2-9 CASH 4 Midday: 5-6-6-2 Evening: 9-9-0-0 Night: 2-9-9-9 FANTASY FIVE 1-20-21-40-42 GEORGIA FIVE Midday: 8-7-1-2-2 Evening: 9-5-5-0-3 POWERBALL (11/17) 6-8-20-52-68 Power Ball: 5 Current jackpot: $124M MEGA MILLIONS (11/16) 33-36-63-68-69 Mega Ball: 16 Current jackpot: $139M Lottery numbers are unofficial. Some results may be unavailable at press time; for updated numbers, visit gainesvilletimes.com/lottery. The Georgia Lottery Corp.: 404-215-5000. TODAY IN HISTORY On this date: In 1928, Walt Disney’s first sound-synchronized animated car toon, “Steamboat Willie” starring Mickey Mouse, premiered. In 1959, “Ben-Hur,” the Biblical-era spectacle starring Charl ton Heston, had its world premiere in New York. In 1966, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops issued a Pastoral Statement on Penance and Abstinence, which did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays outside of Lent. In 1978, U.S. Rep. Leo J. Ryan, D-Calif., and four others were killed in Jonestown, Guyana, by members of the Peoples Temple; the killings were followed by a night of mass murder and suicide by more than 900 cult members. In 1985, the comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes,” created by Bill Watterson, was first published. (The strip ran for 10 years.) In 1987, the congressional Iran-Contra committees issued their final report, saying President Ronald Reagan bore “ulti mate responsibility” for wrongdoing by his aides. A fire at Lon don King’s Cross railway station claimed 31 lives. In 1991, Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon freed Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland, the Ameri can dean of agriculture at the American University of Beirut. In 2003, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled 4-to-3 that the state constitution guaranteed gay couples the right to marry. BIRTHDAYS Actress Brenda Vaccaro is 79. Author-poet Margaret Atwood is 79. Actress Linda Evans is 76. Actress Susan Sullivan is 76. Ac tress-singer Andrea Marc- ovicci is 70. Rock musi cian Herman Rarebell is 69. Singer Graham Parker is 68. Actor Delroy Undo is 66. Comedian Kevin Nealon is 65. Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon is 62. Ac tress Elizabeth Perkins is 58. Singer Kim Wilde is 58. Rock musician Kirk Hammett (Metallica) is 56. Actor Owen Wilson is 50. Singer Duncan Sheik is 49. Actor Mike Epps is 48. Actress Peta Wilson is 48. Actress Chloe Sevigny is 44. Country singer Jessi Alexander is 42. Actor Damon Wayans Jr. is 36. Country singer TJ Osborne (Brothers Osborne) is 34. Actor Nathan Kress is 26. Don't be a chicken. Cross the road! There’s plenty of parking in DowntownGainesville.com. WEATHER Gainesville 5-Day Forecast #AccuWeather downloadthefreeapp TODAY TONIGHT MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Partly sunny Partly cloudy Becoming cloudy Partly sunny Mostly sunny Mostly sunny HIGH: 61° LOW: 42° 63747° 59737° 58738° 56736° RFT: 65745 ° 1 RFT: 60737° RFT: 63737 * 1 RFT: 59731° Precip chance: Precip chance: Precip chance: Precip chance: Precip chance: Precip chance: 5% 5% 10% 10% 5% 10% RFT: The patented AccuWeather.com RealFeel Temperature® is an exclusive index of effective temperature based on eight weather factors. Almanac Statistics for Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport through 5 p.m. yesterday Temperature High/low 63°35° Normal high/low 61741° Record high 81° in 1958 Record low Precipitation (in inches) 20° in 1914 24 hrs. ending 5 p.m. yest. 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High Ve hi Albany Atlanta 71 47 pc 63 44 pc 70 52 pc 65 48 pc Columbus Dalton 68 45 s 61 39 pc 68 63 51 pc 43 c JK Augusta 66 48 pc 68 49 pc Greenville 60 41 pc 64 46 pc Main Offender: Ragweed and Juniper Brunswick 71 58 pc 73 55 pc Macon 67 43 s 68 50 pc Source: National Allergy Bureau Chattanooga 61 41 pc 62 44 c Savannah 70 54 pc 71 51 pc | UV Index | Lake Levels | Sun and Moon I Lake data in feet as of 7 a.m. yesterday ■ o 9 a.m. Noon 3 p.m. 6 p.m. The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Lake Full Pool Present Level 24 hr Change Lake Lanier 1071.0 1071.38 -0.17 Allatoona Lake 840.0 841.33 +0.22 Burton Lake 1865.0 1864.67 -0.25 Clark’s Hill Lake 330.0 329.90 +0.66 Hartwell Lake 660.0 659.63 +0.11 Russell Lake 480.0 475.22 -0.05 West Point Lake 635.0 634.10 +0.17 Sunrise today.... ctaie Sunset tonight.. Full Last 0993 Nov 23 Nov 29 Dec 7 Dec 15 New First Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice The story of the Lost Colony continues to fascinate people. Settlers from England landed on Roa noke Island (near today’s Manteo, North Carolina) in 1587, but disappeared within three years. Some 350 years later, a tourist found a stone in a swamp outside of Edenton, inscribed with what is believed to be colonist Eleanor Dare’s description of their fate and whereabouts. To the present day, there’s no conclusive sci entific evidence that the chis eled text is authentic and not an elaborate forgery. It tells of an epidemic, and a massacre by natives that left only a few of the original colo nists alive. With all those modern meth ods of analysis, I’m often asked why we can’t establish a definitive age of the arti fact. There’s radiocarbon dating, atomic spectroscopy, and much more. Sure, detailed analysis of the rock has been performed, showing that it’s a quartz extracted most likely from a mine in the Virgilina District of Virginia. Its age though, some 300 million years, tells us nothing about when the colony’s newslet ter was chiseled into it, or who did it. In 1937, Louis Hammond was looking for hickory nuts in the wetlands bordering the Chowan River. Along with those edible treats, he unearthed a stone that seemed to bear ancient inscriptions. Washing it in river water didn’t help, so he threw it in his car and took it along. That evening, he innocently cleaned it as best he could. Today’s archeologists could cry over the wire brush scrubbing the stone received. Moreover, Hammond traced the letters with a pencil, contaminating the chisel marks with graphite. To establish when the inscrip tions were made, a geologist would search for patina inside, which is the thin crust of minerals that forms when rock weathers, or decays. It can be found in old tombstones, which helps prove authenticity. But tombstones stand out in the open for centu ries in unchanging conditions. Nobody knows if the Dare Stone lay in the acidic muck near today’s U.S. 17 for that long. Or maybe it spent time in the drier Virginia Pied mont? Was it possibly carved at the original fort on Roanoke Island, exposed to wetting and drying in the sand and sea spray? Hammond’s discovery brought a fasci nating mystery to American history books. His unassuming handling of the find, though, will have researchers scratching their heads for a long time yet. Rudi Kiefer, Ph.D., is a professor at Brenau University, teaching physical and health sciences on Brenau’s Georgia campuses and in China. His column appears Sundays and at gainesvilletimes.com. AROUND TOWN SUNDAY Gainesville Plein Air Painting Days. 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Quinlan Visual Arts Center, 514 Green St. NE, Gainesville. 770-536-2575, autoeac@ mindspring.com. Free. Veterans Day Craft Week. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. In teractive Neighborhood for Kids, 999 Chest nut St. SE, No. 11, Gainesville. $1 -$8. Morning Worship. 10 a.m.-noon. Mt. Zion Bap tist Church, 4000 Thurmond Tanner Road, Flowery Branch, mzbcinfo@yahoo.com. Free. Mark and Jody Jam This Sunday at Good 01 Days. 2-6 p.m. Good ol’ Days Bar and Grill, 419 Atlanta Road, Cumming. Fly Fishing. 2-4 p.m. Sharon Forks Library, 2820 Old Atlanta Road, Cumming. Ru Yi: Landscape of Stones. 3-7 p.m. University of North Georgia, Bob Owens Art Gallery, 82 College Circle, Dahlonega. 678-717-3438, victoria.cooke@ung.edu. Free. Behind the Scenes Tour. 6 p.m. North Georgia Zoo, 2912 Paradise Valley Road, Cleveland. 706-348-7279, info@wildlifewonders.org. $42-$50. Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support. 6-8 p.m. Rock Goodbye Angel, 615 Oak St., Suite G, Gainesville. 407-252-9884, angela@ RockGoodbyeAngel.com. Free. MONDAY Ru Yi: Landscape of Stones. 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. University of North Georgia, Bob Owens Art Gallery, 82 College Circle, Dahlonega. 678- 717-3438, victoria.cooke@ung.edu. Free. Isaac Alcantar Exhibit at the Quinlan Visual Arts Center Regions Mini Gallery. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Regions Center, 303 Jesse Jewell Parkway, Gainesville. 770-536-2575, amanda@qvac. org. Free. Member’s Show at the Quinlan. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Quinlan Visual Arts Center, 514 Green St. NE, Gainesville. 770-536-2575, paula.lindner@ quinlanartscenter.org. Free. Water Aerobics. 9:30-10:30 a.m. University of North Georgia, 25 Schultz Avenue, Dawson ville, conted@ung.edu. Thanksgiving Craft Week. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. In teractive Neighborhood for Kids, 999 Chest nut St. SE, No. 11, Gainesville. $1 - $8. LEGO Free-Build Day. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Lumpkin County Library, 342 Courthouse Hill, Dahlonega. Books & Babies Storytime. 10:15-10:45 a. m. Hampton Park Library, 5345 Settingdown Road, Cumming. Free. Turkey Day Tales. 10:15-11 a.m. Post Road Library, 5010 Post Road, Cumming. BUNCO. 1-4 p.m. Dawson County Library, 342 Allen St., Dawsonville. Dawsonville Free Community Thanksgiving Din ner. 5-7 p.m. Veterans Memorial Park Gymna sium, 186 Recreation Road, Dawsonville. Free. Hall County Planning Commission meeting. 5:15 p.m. Hall County Government Center, second floor, 2875 Browns Bridge Road, Gainesville. 770-531-6809. Publish your event Don’t see your event here? Go to gainesvilletimes.com/calendar to add it. Events publish at the editors’ discretion and as space allows. Call 770-718-3417 with questions. Brenau University JV Basketball vs. Oglethorpe University. 6-8 p.m. Brenau University, 500 Washington St SE, Gainesville. Oakwood Planning Commission meeting. 7 p.m. Oakwood City Hall, 4035 Walnut Circle, Oakwood. tpuckett@cityofoakwood.net, 770- 534-2365. Thanksgiving Gospel Singing. 7-8:30 p.m. Cal vary Baptist Church, 1975 Ga. 82, Statham. 770-725-5164, mattdibler@aol.com. Free. Monday Night RAWK at GOD’S With New World Boss! Free Show!. 9 p.m. Good ol’ Days Bar and Grill, 419 Atlanta Road, Cumming. TUESDAY Ru Yi: Landscape of Stones. 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. University of North Georgia, Bob Owens Art Gallery, 82 College Circle, Dahlonega. 678- 717-3438, victoria.cooke@ung.edu. Free. Isaac Alcantar Exhibit at the Quinlan Visual Arts Cen ter Regions Mini Gallery. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Regions Center, 303 Jesse Jewell Parkway, Gainesville. 770-536-2575, amanda@qvac.org. Free. Member’s Show at the Quinlan. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Quinlan Visual Arts Center, 514 Green St. NE, Gainesville. 770-536-2575, paula.lindner@ quinlanartscenter.org. Free. Open Pottery Studio. 10 a.m.-noon. Quinlan Visual Arts Center, 514 Green St. NE, Gaines ville. 770-536-2575, paula.lindner@quinlan- artscenter.org. $20. Thanksgiving Craft Week!. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. In teractive Neighborhood for Kids, 999 Chest nut St. SE, No. 11, Gainesville. $1 - $8. Tuesday Open Studio Pottery - RSVP required. 10 a.m.-noon. Quinlan Visual Arts Center, 514 Green St NE, Gainesville. 770-536-2575. Thanksgiving Craft. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Gaines ville Youth Services Dept., Gainesville. Career Coach Visits Cumming Library. 10a.m. to 2 p.m. Cumming Library, 585 Dahlonega St., Cumming. 770-538-2727, mtu7@gmrc. ga.gov. Free. Turkey Day Tales. 10:15-10:45 a.m. Cumming Library, 585 Dahlonega St., Cumming. The American Red Cross Pillowcase Project!. 11 a.m.-noon. Interactive Neighborhood for Kids, 999 Chestnut St. SE, No. 11, Gaines ville. $8. The Case of the Missing Turkey. 3-4 p.m. Cum ming Library, 585 Dahlonega St., Cumming. Paws to Read. 3:30 to 5 p.m. Post Road Li brary, 5010 Post Road, Cumming. Date Night at The “Q”. 6:30 p.m. Quinlan Visual Arts Center, 514 Green St. NE, Gainesville. 770-536-2575, paula@qvac.org. $25. Tween Scene @ The Post Road Library: The Sci ence of Superheroes. 6:30-8 p.m. Post Road Library, 5010 Post Road, Cumming. 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SINGLE COPY The Times is available at retail stores, newspaper racks and at The Times for $1.00 Mon.-Sat. and $2.00 on Sun. ARIES (March 21 -April 19). You’ll be happiest while in the process of learning something new. Embark on an educa tional venture to spark your creativity and reignite your sense of wonder. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Being grateful is not just some thing you do; it’s something you are. No matter what you take on, you’re coming from a place of appreciation and that’s what makes this day great. GEMINI (May 21-June21). Are your actions working toward the goal you have in mind? You’ll want to know how you’re doing. There’s nothing wrong with just asking. The question might actually be charming and disarming. CANCER (June 22-July 22). Ex tra energy and vitality is yours to play with. It’s as though you’ve tapped into an energy field and are being compelled, not by your own volition, but by the very force that fuels the spinning of the planets. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Others may do things in a way that clearly works great. Still, never discount what you know or re ject your own roots. To accept and love where you came from is essential to feeling comfort able in the world. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Write it down so you don’t have to worry about remembering. Set a timer so you won’t procras tinate. Lock the door and turn off the Wi-Fi so you won’t get interrupted or distracted. The best solutions are simple and obvious. LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 23). It used to be that people believed the answers were blowing in the wind. Now they believe the answers are trend ing on Twitter or Reddit. Just to be safe, check everywhere. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). In the name of getting things done, you might have to limit your mental scope. There will be enough to do with what’s actually happening without also worrying about what might happen or what could happen. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Your heart may cherish your friends, but it’s the rest of you that really lets them know. Your deeds speak volumes. They’ll be warmed by your ac tions. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). By simply sharing your honest appraisal of a situation you’ll do more good than you could possibly know. If this sort of thing also happens to be your job, the result will make you money today. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Not everyone wants to be fa mous, and you’ll be living proof of this today as you choose to do your thing without taking a picture or otherwise submitting some representation of it to the eyes of the world. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’ll do a thing and then cross it off your list. But don’t let that be the only reason to cross things off. If you know you’ll never do it, that’s as fine a rea son as any to put a pen slash through it.
