Publisher Nathaniel Grant [email protected] Associate Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Bruce Gemmill [email protected] Creative Director Ronnie Price Copy Editor Virginia Grant gam|mag is published monthly except June/July and November/December. The magazine is mailed free of charge to select Washington, DC area businesses, nonprofits, associations, and government contractors. While reasonable care is taken Dear Reader, with all material submitted to gam|mag, the publisher cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage to any such material. In this issue, our cover story features an entrepreneur named Barry Gordy, Jr. Characteristic Opinions expressed in articles are strictly of so many entrepreneurs, his persistence, hard work, and determination enabled him to those of the authors. While ensuring that conquer trials and tribulations along the path to eventual success. I hope you enjoy reading all published information is accurate, the about the music empire Gordy built that took the world by storm and made this man a living publisher cannot be held responsible for any mistakes or omissions. Reproduction legend. in whole or in part of any text, illustrations or photographs is strictly forbidden. ©2020 As an entrepreneur myself, 2020 was a challenging year for organizations and individuals. GAM Graphics and Marketing. Nothing prepared us for the pandemic, much less the government restrictions placed on This magazine is intended to provide a small businesses. I am an optimist by nature. As a country, I genuinely believe we Americans general guide to the News and the services will bounce back by sheer willpower and ingenuity, ingrained in our very nature. it provides. The material in our magazine is given for general information only and We welcome your thoughts and story pitches and encourage you to reach out to the editor of does not constitute professional advice. Where appropriate, readers should seek myself. their own legal or other professional advice. The gam|mag accepts no responsibility for Warmest regards, loss occasioned to any person acting or refraining from acting as a result of material contained in this magazine. Nathaniel Grant Publisher Phone: 571.375.7200 www.gam-mag.com Follow us @gam-mag Page 4 • gam|mag • February 2021 Contributing Writers in this Issue Jenn Womack Liz Farmer Dan Rene 8 Inside 8 A Collection of Classic Love Poetry for Your Sweetheart 10 Motown's Soulful ‘60s 13 Press Release Strategies & Tactics 18 Why Some Cities In Low-Tax States Have The Highest Property Tax Rates 10 13 20 It's Miller Time! Redefining the Full-Service Car Wash Model 24 What’s in a Virginia Town Name? 28 Nascent News. Random Reviews. gam|mag The palindrome of news magazines. Backward or forward, the same 20 gam good read.™ Committee for Dulles For more than 50 years, the Committee for Dulles has been an advocate for Dulles Airport and the economic corridor. Won’t you join us as we continue to make the Dulles area one of the best places in the United States to live and work? committeefordulles.org BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES Youth For Tomorrow's Behavioral Health Services offers outpatient mental health counseling services for children ages five and up, adolescents, adults, families, and couples. Our mental health professionals are here to serve you and your family. We offer substance abuse treatment for adolescents including group, individual and family sessions. We have convenient group times in the evenings after school and work. Six Locations to Serve the Community! Manassas Haymarket Warrenton Loudoun County Springfield Woodbridge For more information call 703-659-9900 www.YouthForTomorrow.org Exclusively by Appointment Only 1100 West Church Road, Sterling, VA 20164 • P 703.430.2100 www.imifurniture.com HISTORY NEWS A Collection of Classic Love Poetry for Your Sweetheart Get Some Inspiration From Great Poets The feelings of romantic love are pretty universal — even if "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? it seems like nobody could ever have felt the way you do; that's Thou art more lovely and more temperate: universal, too. And that's why songs and poems often say just what Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, you're feeling — only better than you can express it. And summer’s lease hath all too short a date ..." If you want to tell your sweetheart just how you feel about him or her, whether it's Valentine's Day or any old day, but you can't quite find the just the right words, maybe these classic poems from some of 'A Red, Red Rose' by Robert Burns the greatest poets in the English language might fit the bill or give you Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote this to his love in 1794, and it some ideas. is one of the most quoted and famous love poems of all time in the English language. Throughout the poem, Burns uses simile as an Here's a line that is so famous — and expresses such universality effective literary device to describe his feelings. The first stanza is the — that it has become part of the language. It's from Christopher most well-known: Marlowe's "Hero and Leander," and he wrote this in 1598: "Whoever loved, that loved not at first sight?" Timeless. "O my Luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June: Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare O my Luve’s like the melodie, Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, written in 1609, is one of the most That’s sweetly play’d in tune." famous and quoted love poems of all time. Its obvious use of metaphor in the comparison of the subject of the poem to a summer's day is hard to miss — the subject being much superior to 'Love's Philosophy' by Percy Bysshe Shelley that grandest of seasons. The poem's most famous lines are at the Once again, a metaphor is the literary device of choice in a love beginning, with the metaphor in full view: poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley from 1819, a prominent English Romantic poet. He uses metaphor again and again, to great effect, to make his point — which is crystal clear. Here's the first stanza: Page 8 • gam|mag • February 2021 HISTORY NEWS "The fountains mingle with the river "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. And the rivers with the Ocean, I love thee to the depth and breadth and height The winds of Heaven mix for ever My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight With a sweet emotion; For the ends of Being and ideal Grace." Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine 'In Excelsis' by Amy Lowell In one spirit meet and mingle. In this much more modern take on the poetic form, written in Why not I with thine?—" 1922, Amy Lowell uses simile, metaphor, and symbolism to express this most powerful feeling of romantic love. The imagery is more potent and elemental than that of earlier poets, and the writing Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning resembles the stream of consciousness style. The first few lines give a This sonnet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, published in the hint of what's to come: collection "Sonnets From the Portuguese" in 1850, is one of 44 love sonnets. This one is without a doubt the most famous and most "You—you— quoted of her sonnets and also in all of the poems in the English language. Your shadow is sunlight on a plate of silver; Your footsteps, the seeding-place of lilies; She was married to the Victorian poet Robert Browning, and Your hands moving, a chime of bells across a windless air." he is the subject of these sonnets. This sonnet is a metaphor upon metaphor and extremely personal, which is likely why it resonates. Snyder, Bob Holman & Margery. "A Collection of Classic Love Poetry for Your The first lines are so well-known that nearly everyone recognizes Sweetheart." ThoughtCo, Aug. 26, 2020, thoughtco.com/love-poems-for-valentines- day-2725475. them: Ford’s Caters! Full Service Catering [email protected] • www.fordswickedcatering.com Full Menu available at fordsfishshack.com Lansdowne Ashburn South Riding 19308 Promenade Drive 44260 Ice Rink Plaza #101 25031 Riding Plaza #150 Leesburg, VA 20176 Ashburn, VA 20147 Chantilly, VA 20152 571.333.1301 571.918.4092 703.542.7520 fordsfishshack.com Page 9 • gam|mag • February 2021 NONPROFIT NEWS Berry Gordy attends the Premiere Of Showtime's "Hitsville: The Making Of Motown" at Harmony Gold on August 08, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images) Motown's Soulful ‘60s Bruce Gemmill It was a time like no other. The decade of the ‘60s changed In 1951, no sooner had he put pen to paper, he found himself American society in many ways, but it was the blend of soul music drafted into the United States Army. While he was in the Army, he and R&B that took pop charts by storm. Airwaves and dancefloors went back to school and earned his GED. In 1953, he was honorably rocked to the sounds of Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, The Jackson discharged from the military and married. Once again, he followed Five, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and the Supremes, The Temptations, the affection he had for music since seven years of age. He opened The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson, The Marvelettes, and Gladys a record shop, but his plans fell short because his store offered jazz Knight & the Pips. Black music culture had finally arrived, and it records when rhythm and blues (R&B) was in demand. The business quickly became a worldwide success.