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The Strange Redemption of Lewis Cooksey

Gwinnetians, this is a story 100 years in the making. Seen above, an adolescent named Lewis Cooksey, "the boy that laid the bolt that threw 38". On August 23, 1908, the #38 train derailed at Mangum's Crossing in Sugar Hill, which is now the Buford Drive/Peachtree Industrial intersection. The engineer, Benjamin Dewberry, and his assistant, Mayson Wadkins, were both horrifically scalded to death in the accident, which was blamed on a large bolt that had been placed on the tracks, allegedly by Lewis Cooksey. As the story goes, Cooksey believed the train was carrying fruit (it wasn't) and he hoped to obtain some by derailing the train, though the only fruit of his labors was a couple of felony indictments for murder and train-wrecking. Lewis Cooksey, also spelled 'Louis Cooksie' in publications at the time (both are used in the article above), was acquitted the next month, as seen in the September 1908 article from the Atlanta Journal excerpted above. Twenty years...

What's this Mysterious Building Next to Sparkles Skating Rink?

Gwinnetians, if you have any insight on the mysterious building being swallowed by kudzu next to the Sparkles skating rink on Grayson Highway, we'd love to hear about it. Barely visible from the road, it boasts a locked steel door with a 'No Trespassing' sign and not a single window. The possibilities are endless. A serial killer's lair? A forgotten cult temple? The entry to the fabled ninth gate? We haven't figured it out yet, but you dear readers will be the first to know when we do. Seen below, the access point for the strange edifice, though we strongly caution anyone intent on unraveling the structure's secrets alone.

Pickleball Has Got to Be the New Axe-Throwing

If you've heard of pickle ball but don't know what the hype is all about, we've got you covered here at DGHQ. We sent our intrepid staff out to Pickle and Social at the Exchange in Buford to find out what exactly pickleball is and why it has taken the nation by storm. Here's what we learned: 1. It has nothing to do with pickles. We'd like to tell you more, but that's about as far as we got. We can say with certainty however that pickleball is the new axe-throwing. You remember axe-throwing, right? Let's break it down: A. Both axe-throwing and pickleball blossomed almost overnight from obscurity to mainstream social activities. B. Both axe-throwing and pickleball are extremely popular among millennial craft beer enthusiasts. And there you have it. If you were wondering where your axe-throwing friends have gone, they are probably playing pickleball as we speak, and likely drinking a microbrewery IPA between rounds. We're just hoping that next year curling...

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