CANTON From the length of the baseball history that has evolved in Stark and Summit counties, a reader could expect the book "Akron-Canton Baseball Heritage" to be every bit its 128 pages.

Many photos from Hall County and Grand Island taken around the turn of the century will be featured in a book you can buy Monday.

If you haven't been to Galena, Ill., you owe it to yourself to visit. The historic town, located just south of the Wisconsin border, became rich as a lead and zinc mining community and as the home of General and, later, President Ulysses S. Grant.

The Rialto Historical Society will shine a spotlight on San Bernardino at a May open house featuring Steven Shaw, president of the San Bernardino Historical & Pioneer Society.

As rapid development continues Rockaway’s transformation, a local historian has completed a photographic history of the quainter, quieter times he knew as a boy on the peninsula.

Mark J. Camp says a strange feeling often comes over him when he visits an old railroad depot. "It's hard to describe, but you get this feeling of a vast sense of history," says Camp, a Toledo resident, geology professor and author of several books about Ohio railroad depots.

Pioneer Park is a scenic spot, nestled between two canyons in Mission Hills. You'd never know it had once been a cemetery if not for three bronze plaques at the park's east end that overlook an odd assemblage of headstones grounded in cement.

They sit at the bottom of the ocean from California to Alaska, these old state ferry boats that for years traversed Puget Sound and ended up with an ignominious death.

While the largest concentration of Filipinos outside of the Philippines lives in Southern California, many of the poignant, homespun stories of pioneers have gone missing, leaving behind the frayed tapestry of their history in Los Angeles.

Construction of the Grandview Reservoir has begun. Homes, too, are under construction, and Yucaipa Apple Show is in full swing. The year is 1912. William Howard Taft is the U.S. president and Hiram Johnson is the 23rd governor of California.

SPEARFISH - A historic town deserves a historic recollection of its past -and for a couple of South Dakotans - Spearfish is one of those towns. Authors of "Spearfish" Jan Cerney and Bobbi Sago are both incredibly excited about the book's publication and are looking forward to having people peruse its pages. On the shelf today, the pages flip through hundreds of years of the community's past.

A new book on the history of Angel Island came about by accident. Principal author Bran Fanning, former Tiburon mayor who has served as town historian for the past decade, said his research for another book on the Tiburon Peninsula, published last year, indicated the island's long history deserved its own story.

When desk clerk J.H. Emsley discovered a fire on the second floor of the Hotel El Paso de Robles, he alerted guests in time for them to evacuate. But he couldn’t save himself (he suffered a heart attack and died immediately after). And he couldn’t save the grand hotel, which burned to the ground a week before Christmas in 1940.

Debra McClane has developed a keen interest in history and architecture. She speculates that growing up in Botetourt County's Trinity community stirred the interest.

For many who have spotted the rocky formation on a fogless afternoon, Angel Island is geographically close, albeit a far more distant place in daily thought. Images of America: Angel Island pays tribute to an immigration outpost that has played an unforgettable role in Chinese American history and becomes quite the apropos read amid recent immigration debates.

PLACENTIA — "Early Placentia," a paperback by the Placentia Historical Committee chronicling the city's history through 1960 is slated for release April 23.

The picturesque history of Santa Monica lifeguards, as captured by local photographers and photojournalists throughout the last century, has been archived in a new photo book.

Anyone with a penchant for the history of Cass County will appreciate a book by the same name. Cass County” is the newest edition from Arcadia Publishing as part of its “Images of America” series.

PLAINVILLE - Originally known as the Great Plain, Plainville was the last of several towns to separate from Farmington, incorporating in 1869. Plainville's economy at the time included farmers, millers, tin workers, tanners, chair-makers and blacksmiths

Based in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, Arcadia is a specialty publishing company that cranks out a seemingly unlimited series of books that focus on regional history. Its “Images of America” collection has previously spotlighted historic Memphis, The Peabody, Overton Park, vintage postcards, and even the community of Collierville.

Filipino-American writer Mae Respicio Koerner has written a remarkable book that is a must read and a must have in your book collection. Filipinos in Los Angeles is a book with a collection of more than 200 evocative images. It is a thorough compendium that shares the many voices of Filipino-Americans, highlighting their challenges and achievements and sharing their everyday moments.

Roberta Sago, special collections librarian and archivist at the Leland D. Case Library for Western Historical Studies at Black Hills State University; and Jan Cerney, BHSU alumna, have collaborated on writing, Spearfish, a book that documents the Spearfish area's historical past.

Sometimes you can go home again - at least, that is, if your home is Oconomowoc. Writer Mary Kane is an Oconomowoc native whose new book depicting the city’s early days is part of Arcadia Publishing’s Postcard History Series. The series is an intriguing format wherein a city, town or region is explored through hundreds of vintage postcard images, accompanied by well-informed commentary.

NEW CONCORD - Two Muskingum College students, with the help of a faculty adviser, have released a new local history book, "Salt Fork State Park," published by Arcadia Publishing as a part of its "Images of America" series.

With a master's degree in history, Michael Smookler thought he'd be a historian. But he wound up in construction. So, after retirement, the "history nut" turned to visual and living history as an author of books on Montara and the San Mateo County coast.

Paula Lambert, Lois George and Wyner Phillips are loosening their writs to sigh their just-released book Saturday at the Randolph County Historical Museum In. After months of work and eagerly awaiting publishing of the soft-cover book by Arcadia Publishing, they are unpacking books and preparing for the book signing from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the museum.

We already know it's going to happen, but it will be a shock anyway. Within the next couple of weeks, Fortune magazine will release its latest Fortune 500 list, and there it will be for us to see: Owens-Illinois Inc., based in Perrysburg.

How did all that raw material for making tires get to Akron? How did the tires get to their destinations?