Bob Dougherty has put together a history of La Honda, which came out last month. If the format seems familiar, there are a dozens of similar volumes from Arcadia Publishing about the Bay Area, including Pacifica and the Coastside. The beauty of the Arcadia books is that by keeping a common format, they’re able to produce high-quality books with very limited production runs.

Dana Point is a coastal landmark as well as a city. Now, it's also the title of a new pictorial history book by local historian and author Doris Walker. The historic photos were complied primarily from Walker's own collection as part of the Images of America series from Arcadia Publishing.

The newest title in Arcadia's Black America Series of pictorial histories is Gina Ruffin Moore's "Cincinnati" ($19.99), which opens with a startling photograph showing bullet holes in the bare back of a man shot during the Courthouse Riots of 1884.

DOVER — The tale of the past 350 years of Delaware agriculture is told through historic photographs in a local author’s book, “Delaware Farming,” set to go on sale today.

FRENCH LICK — John Martin Smith has found a different way to pay tribute to the history of the French Lick and West Baden Springs area.

One of the shelves in my bookcase keeps getting more and more crowded, and I couldn't be happier.

TUCSON, Ariz. - How serendipitous is this? A husband and wife who deal in out-of-print books, prints and postcards attend an Arizona Historical Society convention and set up their booth right next to a history book publishing company that specializes in ''postcard history'' books.

While researching the history of the U.S. Coast Guard on the Oregon coast, David Pinyerd found numerous photos of service crews and their mascots.

SEASIDE - Arcadia Publishing and Beach Books announce the publication of a new book "Seaside: 1920-1950," by local author Susan L. Glen. This is one in the "Images of America" series and is Glen's second book in that series.

Monticello author-historian Bill Madden likes to know about the beginnings of things, about the how and why a place, an organization or a person came to be. Looking to the past in reference to the present, said Madden, 59, reveals uniqueness, character and sparks curiosity - all of which he hopes captures readers who partake of his new book Monticello, which hits stores July 30.

JoAnn Meaker: Ontario, Wayne County, teacher just retired from the Fairport Central School District.

HAMPTON -- If you want contrast between NASA Langley's past and present, here it is. Media materials distributed by the center recently include high-definition animation of astronauts roaming the moon, with a lunar settlement reflected in the astronaut's gold visor.

If there is a certain sound, a particular voice or theme that can be traced across generations and disciplines throughout the long history of Oakland’s black artistic community – and that is no small if – it might be captured by award-winning poet Reginald Lockett.

Walk through the corridors of the Mission past dust-ridden streets and you will find what many people call a state treasure and what more than 1,500 people call home.

McHENRY – A car coming over the old Pearl Street bridge. Petersen Farm decades ago. Routes 31 and 120 circa 1920. The scenes are among photographs featured in a local history book that writer Sandra Landen Machaj will debut Saturday at Fiesta Days. She spent a year pitching, researching and producing the book for Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series.

Chicago author Greg Borzo invites readers and rail fans to take a ride through time aboard the Chicago "L" at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore in Forest Park.

A new history book about Starved Rock State Park is set to hit bookstores this month.

Otsego residents can now reach back into the city’s past to discover what led to Otsego becoming one of the top five fastest-growing Minnesota cities in 2007. “Otsego” is part of Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of America” collector series written by area residents Paulie Skaja-Bell and Chris Wilson.

Every city has its icons, universally recognizable as a symbol of its metropolitan host. For Greg Borzo, author of "The Chicago L," that symbol in the city of big shoulders is the elevated railway that has shuttled more than 10 billion passengers since its construction.

Ever since he can remember, Ashburn volunteer firefighter Mike Sanders has had a fascination with firetrucks.

"McClellan Air Force Base" by Kyle Byard and Tom Naiman (Arcadia, $19.99, 128 pages): Arcadia Publishing of Mount Pleasant, S.C., is best known for its "Images of America" series. Each title focuses on the homespun histories of towns around the country, told mostly through vintage photographs and text blocks.

It’s a labor of love. And one worth reading. “Images of America, Napa County Police” is hot off the press. The well-illustrated book, written by Napa Police Detective Todd Shulman with the assistance of the Napa Police Historical Society, chronicles the history of the Napa, Calistoga, St. Helena, Napa County Sheriff’s, California Highway Patrol and Napa Valley College police departments going back more than a century.

Local author David McGee is subscribing to the theory, if you have a proven formula for success, don’t mess with it. Coming off the heels of a successful book simply titled Bristol Motor Speedway, McGee debuts a similar book titled Bristol Dragway next Monday.

SCHENECTADY -- Poring through the archives of the Schenectady Museum, Effner History Research Library and City Hall is nothing new for city and Schenectady County historian Don Rittner. But trying to find nearly 100 pictures of the city's past to compare with its present was a challenge.

It's impossible for anyone who has lived in or worked in Vail during the last few years to miss the fact that the area is rapidly changing. That's why Sharon Hunt, the librarian and archivist at Colossal Cave Mountain Park, decided to preserve some of the area's history in her new book, Vail and Colossal Cave Mountain Park.

Flip flops, board shorts, wet suits, surfboards - San Diego is immersed in modern surf culture. But authors of "Surfing in San Diego," John Elwell and Jane Schmauss, are quick to remind us it wasn't always that way.

Local author Bonnie Alton will be signing copies of the book Wisconsin Dells, the latest in the Postcard History Series by Arcadia Publishing.

From the Native American tribes that once made their home along the Lake Michigan shoreline to neighborhood legends like Herbert "Herbie" Williams, an African-American newspaper vendor who worked the same corner for 50 years, Jacque Day Archer and Jamie Wirbinski Santoro's photographic history book, Rogers Park, chronicles the untold stories of Chicago's gem with unbounded insight and reverence.

In a perfect world, Cathy Campanella, her family and extended family would have been spending much of this summer at their beloved "Camp-a-Nella," a Hayne Boulevard camp on Lake Pontchartrain.

University of Nebraska at Omaha, the title of a new book in Arcadia Publishing’s “Campus History Series,” gives a snapshot of the school’s nearly 100-year life.

The new book “Napa County Police” took a year for Todd L. Shulman to research. Shulman describes it as a “labor of love meant to honor the sacrifices of the men and women whom have served the citizens of Napa County.” Through 200 vintage images, the book details the rich, more than 150-year history of law enforcement in Napa County.

Bristol Herald Courier Reporter David McGee has compiled nearly 200 vintage photos for a new book that showcases the history of the Bristol Dragway.

When it comes to naming the dominant architectural style of Palm Beach, Art Deco runs a distant third to Mediterranean Revival and British Colonial.

"During the 1915 eruption (of Lassen Peak), Alice Olson and neighbors were fishing on Summit Lake. As smoke and ash intensified, they were forced away from their cabins. Crossing a part of the already devastated area, they led their spooked animals and went to Lyonsville, not returning until the following spring."

The newly-released Arcadia book on Sister Lakes by R.L. Rasmussen, featuring postcards from the personal collection of Floyd Jerdon, of Jerdon Real Estate, is now available for sale to the public at Whistlestop Gifts, which is operated by the Greater Dowagiac Chamber of Commerce.

LA HONDA - SOME of the stories of La Honda's past still find believers, no matter how outlandish or farfetched they may be. They are told and re-told by residents whose families' bloodlines stretch back more than 100 years to the town's founding.

Miami Beach may have its famed Art Deco District, but Palm Beach can boast "The House of the Future."

Jack McCray is finding a sound, and a legacy, that belongs to us.

It’s hard to imagine now, but there was a time when Wrightsville Beach was just a sleepy village bordering the sea. Summer residents reached the island by a yellow-orange trolley known simply as the “beach car.” And nothing but a skiff or the trolley could get them back to the mainland.