MONROE -- Jim Glessner was part of Swiss Colony's history as an employee for more than 22 years. Now, the 69-year-old Monroe resident is a historian of Monroe's largest employer. Glessner has had a book on the history of Swiss Colony published. Released April 17 through Arcadia Publishing, the 128-page book recounts the 80 years of the company's presence in Monroe, mostly through pictures.

Enter a new photographic book that won't allow the new VCU to forget the old. "Virginia Commonwealth University" is by VCU archivists Ray Bonis, Jodi Koste and Curtis Lyons. The $20 paperback went on sale locally this week (as well as at www.arcadiapublishing.com), in time for this weekend's RPI reunion.

Postcards tell a vivid story of New Castle and Mahoningtown in a new book authored by a New Castle woman.

HUNTINGTON -- Lola Roush Miller loves history. In fact, she loves Central City history so much, she has put together a book full of old pictures about it. The Huntington woman signs copies of "Central City: Images of America" (Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing; $19.99), her new 128-page softback photo history, from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 29, at the Borders table during the Ohio River Festival of Books in the Big Sandy Superstore Arena's conference center.

Hinton, WV (HNN) – “Jewish Milwaukee” by Martin Hintz (Arcadia Publishing Co., 128 pages, $19.99) is a profusely illustrated account of the Wisconsin metropolis’s small but influential Jewish community.

So what does a Savannah hotel management professional do when he's not putting out the welcome mat for visitors? If he's Whip Triplett, he's collecting postcards long ago visitors to Savannah bought and mailed to family and friends around the country. Several years ago he turned a fondness for vintage postcards - especially cards featuring turn-of-the-century grand hotels - into a book project that today is the newest pictorial chronicle of Savannah's rich history as a visitor destinatio

The Marshall University Library Associates will celebrate the past while looking to the future with a wine and cheese reception at 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 22, 2006 on the second floor of the Morrow Library on MU’s Huntington campus.

John "Red" Purcell was one lucky sailor back in 1944 at Port Hueneme. Of the 50 or so Seabees gathered for a publicity shot with movie star Esther Williams — in a bathing suit, of course — it was Purcell's lap she chose to sit on. With sailor's cap perched jauntily on his head, it looks like he enjoyed every second of the photo shoot.

When it comes to history books, two things often come to mind: Boring and long-winded. Grand Haven area authors Wallace K. Ewing and David H. Seibold have made an art out of breaking that mold by using pictures, not wordy passages, to tell their stories. Ewing and Seibold, noted local historians on Grand Haven and surrounding communities, have completed their third book in Arcadia Publishing's "Images of America" series.