RANGER, TEXAS: Every town, every city has a history that ought to be preserved.

A book with the word “Cemetery” in its title can be counted on to scare some people off.

From Mancel Talcott Jr.'s cottage at Touhy and Northwest Highway to the development that dominates the corner today, Park Ridge's history is told through photographs compiled in a new book published just this week.

A book featuring historic images of Stow and Munroe Falls, written by a local librarian, will hit the shelves Sept. 6 at the Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library, and both the Stow and Munroe Falls historical societies.

Willis Winters, assistant director of the city's Park and Recreation Department, says, with a laugh, that it took him all of 30 days to write his forthcoming Fair Park history.

A power point presentation with commentary by Craig Walker, Tom Moore and David Mason will be hosted by the Ojai Valley Museum on Sept. 12.

You can't turn back the hands of time, but in their newest volume "Images of America: Stapleton" (Arcadia Publishing), preservation advocates James G. Ferreri of Sunnyside and David Goldfarb of St. George come awfully close to doing just that.

Arcadia Publishing Company has just released the third book about the history of Hamburg, New York in their popular “Images of America” series of local picture history books.

When Tonya Lanier found a large box of photographs and news clippings in her grandmother's home while cleaning one day, she didn't know who many of the people in the photographs were, although there were some family resemblance.

Back in June, upon the occasion of the release of City Archivist John Slate's Historic Dallas Parks, I mentioned yet another history book was forthcoming from Arcadia Publishing: Willis Winters's Fair Park.

No one who has driven far enough north on Sheridan Road to round the curve at Wilmette Harbor will ever forget the glorious impact of the Baha'i House of Worship.

A book containing more than 200 vintage photographs from various eras throughout Barren County’s history will soon be available.

For most of the 20th century, the Cleveland Public Schools ran a garden program that was emulated by schools across the United States and as far away as Japan.

The late, lamented Michigan State Fair closed its gates for good last September, another victim of the state's wretched finances.