Today’s speaker comes to us today after releasing a book in January, 2009, on Gwinnett history, entitled: Gwinnett, A Little Above Atlanta. He spent three and a half years putting together this history, which focuses on Gwinnett since 1950. It contains 850 pages, including an appendix with 143 tables about life in Gwinnett, from lists of city and county officials, to different ways to count people in Gwinnett.

Brack is a veteran of Georgia newspapers at the weekly (12 years), suburban (13 years) and metro (13 years) level. He most recently served as Gwinnett associate publisher of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

In retirement, he launched a new venture on the Internet, GwinnettForum.com, a public commentary site about Gwinnett County.

His education was at Mercer University (A.B.) and the University of Iowa (M.A.)

He and his wife, Barbara, live in the City of Norcross. They are members of Christ Episcopal Church and have three adult children and two granddaughters. Among his hobbies: hiking in the North Georgia mountains.