Alliance Anchors City Art Renaissance
The Lilburn Art Alliance is just getting started, but already it has big plans for the city.
Twenty years ago, Sonny Franks was a little less gray-haired, but no less enthusiastic about bringing art to Lilburn residents. At the time, Franks first started thinking that something needed to be done about the wall over on the Cofer Electric building, located at the corner of Railroad Avenue and Main Street in Old Town. His very first design -- an "old-timey," fictional company, the Lilburn Locomotive Works. He even approached city council then about getting it done. "I didn't have any gray hair back when I first did that," Franks joked, "and, now I told them, 'We got to finally get started while I can still climb a ladder.'" He later added: "I just said I'm either going to paint it, or die trying." As one of those creative spirits who…
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Sonny Franks
1:28 am on Thursday, December 13, 2012
One of my earliest childhood revelations on the nature of BS was the scene from Wizard of Oz: "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain". In answer to your last question - absolutely, bring it on..... more ›