(October 31, 2006) — VICTOR — Babette Huber, a former elementary schoolteacher and Victor's town historian for the past 16 years, has been described as someone able to combine good communication skills with solid research.

Detroit's Polonia by Cecile Wendt Jensen is one of the latest additions to the Images of America series that preserves and shares the history of individual communities through photographs.

Redlands locals Fred Edwards and Randy Briggs will be at Celebrate Redlands from 1 to 4 p.m. today signing their book, "Redlands - A Postcard History Series," part of the postcard history series from Arcadia Publishing.

Robert W. Sands Jr. and Barbara L. Turner wanted their book about Woodbury to be more than merely a nostalgic photo album. They succeeded: Woodbury (Arcadia Publishing, $19.99) is as informative as it is entertaining. The co-authors did lots of legwork to come up with caption information for the book's 236 photographs, and it paid off.

GEORGETOWN - A Georgetown couple teamed up to publish a book that targets Brown County history. Greg and Lisa Haitz plan to announce the release of their book "Images of America: Brown County," at the Union Township Public Library 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 5.

Allyn Lord, former assistant director of the Rogers Historical Museum and now director of the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale, has a long association with "Coin" Harvey and the resort he created, Monte Ne.

"Plymouth people are proud of their heritage," said Susan Noordyk, owner of Book Heads in Plymouth. That love of history and heritage is the driving force behind a series of books launched by Arcadia Publishing titled "Images of America."

A Whitestone man who has always been fascinated by history is the author of a new book released on Monday. Jason Antos, 25, who recently received a master’s degree in screenwriting from the University of Miami, is the author of a picture book on Whitestone in Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series.

Two-thirds of the people living in Madison Township are related to Debra (Hubbard) Perkins. So, it seems logical that there'd be no one better than Perkins herself to compile an historical photographic account of the rural area. And, that's exactly what the stay-at-home mom recently did.

One of the first pictures in the new book "Images of America ---- Murrieta" is of Emma Hale Skyes, taken in 1917, holding her camera.

OTTUMWA — With his new book, author and photographer Michael Lemberger embraces the changing aspects of Ottumwa from the 1840s to the present day. The book is a part of the Arcadia Publishing series, called “Images of America,” which goes through the history of different cities and towns across the United States, photographically.

There's something magical about those tattered, sepia-toned and time yellowed photographs of sturdy and stately buildings, festively costumed families and ancestral faces that seem to stare back into your inquiring eyes with a ghostly curiosity of their own.

GEORGETOWN, Ohio -- Husband and wife, Greg and Lisa Haitz of Georgetown, have worked together to compile a book profiling the history of Brown County.The couple has created a book for Arcadia Publishing's "Images of America" series, entitled Brown County.

Thad Meckley has history on his mind, a fact he aims to highlight with his new book...

Wayne O.Welshans of Jersey Shore said gathering the photos and historical information for his book was very satisfying.

The highlights of Edward Zerin’s walking tour of Jewish San Francisco no longer exist. On a recent chilly morning, the retired rabbi walked north on Fillmore Street, pointing out blocks of invisible history.

PEARSON FIELD in Vancouver, Wash., is one of the oldest continually operating airfields in the country. A new book by historian and former Rogue Valley resident Bill Alley, "Pearson Field: Pioneering Aviation in Vancouver and Portland," (Arcadia, 127 pages, $19.99) tells Pearson's story in historic photos.

This year's demolition of Reed Hall, the last remaining building of the Dixmont State Hospital campus, marked the final chapter in the story of the 122-year-old historic mental asylum.

James Brooks traveled around Limestone with a laptop computer and a scanner. In a modern day way...

Greg Kowalski is a big fan of architecture. One evening before he saw The Phantom of the Opera, he looked around at the Masonic Temple in Detroit and was awestruck.

HUNTINGTON -- It is August 1956, the twilight of steam operations on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, as a mine run crewman prepares to pick up orders "on the fly" and deliver yet more empties to a coal mine somewhere in southern West Virginia. The operator at FD Cabin, sandwiched between the busy Peach Creek yard and the passenger station in Logan, is preparing to "hand up" the orders, tied in a bundle and anchored temporarily in a Y-shaped wooden hoop.

A year ago, local author Jo Fredell Higgins put out the call for postcards from all eras of Aurora's past. She hoped to get a few hundred, the approximate amount she'd need for her planned postcard history book on the city. She got between 1,000 and 1,200.

Author and historic preservation specialist Joanne Stuttgen is looking for a little help as she pieces together a postcard history of Morgan County.

Adam and Eve wouldn't stand a chance in Oak Glen. The trees are loaded with apples. Tempting apples. Who could resist? Nobody can resist. It's apple season in Oak Glen, a glorious rite of autumn and one of the Inland Empire's showcase events.

In spite of the fact that the treasure rumored to be buried beneath the amphitheater probably doesn’t exist, Monte Ne is always an interesting topic. Working in area museums for 24 years, Allyn Lord knows that Monte Ne can draw a crowd. She’s hoping it can also sell a book. “ Historic Monte Ne, ” published by Arcadia Publishing, was written by Lord and the Rogers Historical Museum. It will soon be available at area bookstores and at both the Rogers Historical Museum and the Shiloh Museum in Springdale.

From how Stevens Creek got its name to the winery that once operated where DeAnza College now stands, Cupertino avocational historian Mary Lou Lyon has spent the last year researching and recording the community's early history.

ROGERS — Many of the area’s newest residents don’t realize that a significant piece of history is submerged beneath the surface of Beaver Lake’s waters, said Allyn Lord, director of the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale. When the waters recede, remnants of an amphitheater become visible, and people get curious. “ Every so often, when the water gets very low, people see things and they have no idea what they are looking at, ” Lord said.

We don't write boxing anymore; at least not much. There's not enough of it, locally, to make the dailies assign a beat writer, and so it carries on quietly in the neighborhood gyms, the sound of pounding leather still luring kids off streets passed over by the 20-plex cinemas and one-stop Kroger stores.

This amazing book carries a wealth of information in its relatively small number of pages. From the first known photograph of San Francisco in 1849 through the emergence of a visible community, to the Milk era, the AIDS crisis, and the City Hall weddings, the entire history of our community in this city is documented through an amazing collection of photographs.

RIVERSIDE - United by a common interest, two Riverside residents have been helping document the history of one of Riverside's most famous landmarks.

Jack Westbrook likes to hang around with people who spend hundreds of thousands of other people’s dollars to dig holes in the ground with a one-in-10 chance of bringing money out of them.

"San Francisco: A Natural History," was written by local historian Greg Gaar and Ryder Miller. It contains historic pictures of San Francisco taken before development covered most of the city's lands. The book is published by Arcadia Publishing and is available for $19.99 at (888) 313-2665 or online at www.arcadiapublishing.com.

Jack Westbrook is at it again. The respected former managing editor of the Michigan Oil & Gas News has vividly documented the state’s exploration history.