Luck, in part, is what places New Glarus in Wisconsin instead of New York, Mexico or Algeria. Really.

BRISTOL, Tenn. – Race fans looking for the perfect Christmas gifts need search no further their local bookstore.

Chicopee-Local historian Stephen R. Jendrysik has published his third book about the city, this time focusing on its rise from Depression-era struggles to World War II economic powerhouse that played a pivotal role in the nation’s war effort.

The photos show the faces of pioneers, folks who carved a community out of a rugged and dangerous wilderness.

As a 3-year-old child, Doug Garner gazed at the roller coaster at Westlake Park.

MOUNT SHASTA - Darla Greb Mazariegos’ passion for the history of Mount Shasta as taken form in a new release from Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series.

Imagine Illinois 59, the busy north-south connection running through Joliet, Naperville and Aurora, as a dirt trail carved with wagon wheel ruts.

OLYMPIA — When Olympia High administrators asked alum Jim Kainber to help put together the school's 100th anniversary celebration, the 1987 graduate decided that a written centennial history should be part of the festivities.

A new book by a regional author offers locals a chance to rummage through Caddo Parish's attic of history.

CLEARFIELD – In her third book with Arcadia Publishing, Julie Rae Rickard tells the story of Curwensville’s past through over 200 vintage photographs.

With more than 10 billion passengers and 115 years of running 24 hours 7 days a week, the three-rail system, known as the "L," has a rich history of providing an affordable transit alternative, and its story is compiled in a new book.

South Philadelphians with any trace of Italian blood in their family will want to grab a copy of a new book on the shelves now.

Chicoppe – Another era of Chicoppee history is on bookstore shelves now.

RADFORD - Radford University history professor Richard Straw, in a partnership with the Athens County Historical Society and Museum in Ohio, has released Athens, part of the Images of America book series by Arcadia Publishing.

Author and historian Peter Blecha's new photo-essay book, "Music in Washington: Seattle and Beyond" (Arcadia Publishing, $19.99), begins in a time we don't know much about and ends in an era that we thought we knew everything about.

There are so many new historical titles being released this fall, it's hard keeping up. They range from local history and memoirs to political examinations.

The "L" trains that run throughout Chicago are a mode of transit that many take for granted, but they were not always a fixture of the city's landscape. In his book, "The Chicago "L"", Greg Borzo details the conception and implementation of the extensive transit system.

A new book from Arcadia Press called “University of Tennessee” provides a detailed history of the university in pictures with photographs pulled from University Archives.

Photographer and local historian Jack Coll has been a familiar figure in and around Conshohocken for the past 33 years. But when Coll's family migrated from Philadelphia to Upper Merion Township in 1964, he found the burbs’ an alien place.

Local authors Catherine C. Brooks and Sara E. Lewis will be selling and signing copies of their books together on three upcoming occasions.

Mary Rubin likes combing through boxes of old pictures to find bits of the past, frozen on film. Her latest book, "Brunswick: Images of America," showcases many of those photographs.

OK, we've been reminded of how dangerous our mountains can be, what with the overbuilt neighborhoods, the overgrown forest, the catastrophic fires and the devastating losses and all.

SANTA MONICA BEACH - The evolution of Santa Monica as one of the top beachside tourist destinations in Southern California owes a large debt to the lifeguards that have kept the water safe for more than 70 years.

Book title: "Back of the Yards" Written by: Jeannette Swist, of Naperville, a native of the Back of the Yards neighborhood in Chicago. She is the founder and principal of Applied Resource Management and an adjunct professor at National-Lewis University. She also speaks at professional conferences, has published articles in several publications and has written chapters for two books on human resource measurement.

The boom may now be a bust and the pineapple plantations have given way to penthouses, but the spirit of Boca Raton's early pioneers lives on in Susan Gillis' new book, Boomtime Boca: Boca Raton in the 1920s.

Who better than Chuck Fowler to research and write a pictorial history book about the tall sailing ships of Puget Sound?

A book looking at 100 years of history at Olympia High School is expected to go on sale Monday.

MUSCATINE, Iowa – In the 1970s-80s, children loved to run along the edges of the Mississippi River near Muscatine and look for shells with holes cut in them from the old days of the button industry. It’s not so easy to find those mussel shells anymore, unless you come across them in an antique shop or at grandma’s house.

A new book about the University of Tennessee provides images of its 200-year history, from its earliest days as Blount College in 1794 to present. The book, called University of Tennessee was published as part of Arcadia Press' Campus History Series. It was written by Aaron Purcell, who served as University Archivist from 2000-2007 and earned a PhD in history from UT in 2006.

The California Delta and its fabled 1,000 miles of inland waterways is the subject of local author Carol Jensen’s latest photographic look at the history of East County.

If ever you were curious about the long, strange trip Ahwatukee Foothills has taken through the years, The CoffeeBuzz has an event for you on Saturday.

Spending two decades with children on his knee, Phillip Wenz has been the keeper of the hopes, dreams and secrets of many.

ROCKLAND - Rockland resident Donald Cann just published his latest opus, “The Isles of Shoals,” about islands off the coast of New Hampshire.

PEABODY - Ted Quinn doesn't want people who might be cleaning out their attic or cellar to throw any photos away.

According o the Georgia Society of Historical Research, Morgan County was named for Revolutionary War general Daniel Morgan. The land, inhabited by the Creek Indians before the arrival of the white man, was obtained by treaty entered into a Fort Wilkerson on June 18, 1803. The territory acquired by the is treaty was divided into three counties: Baldwin County and created on December 10, 1807.

Readers can take a step back in history to get a glimpse of life in the past in Athens through the new book in the Images of America series, Athens.

Executives from the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company knew the West Valley had the potential to foster a resilient community with a strong economic backbone. Mainly because it had the land to grow long-staple cotton, a key ingredient to making tires at the time.

Local connection: Born in Monterey in 1934, John W. Frost attended local schools and made his mark as a tennis player. He was a National Junior Tennis Championship winner in 1949 and made it to the NCAA tournament finals during his college career. He was selected to compete on the U.S. Davis Cup team.

UXBRIDGE— Stella Bailey of Whitinsville, from left, talks as authors Janice Baniukiewicz Stickles and Barbara Proko listen, along with Ms. Bailey’s daughter, Beth Kosciak, Saturday at the Uxbridge Free Public Library.

Madeline Okerman Adie will be one of five local authors to sign books at Barnes & Noble Booksellers on Beckley Road, Lakeview Square Mall, Saturday, November 3, at 1:00 p.m. Arcadia Publishing, headquartered in Charleston, SC is nationally known for its pictorial books of local history.

NEWARK -- In the past 200 years, Licking County has been battered by floods and tornados, traversed by canals and interurban cars, and shaped by the lives of inventors, artists and farmers.

NEW GLARUS -- Kim Tschudy laughs when asked if he always wanted to be a writer.

“Monsters will fly again.” This was a headline in the November 1, 1932, edition of the New York Times newspaper.

Mary Rubin enjoys the details in historical photographs. From advertisements to the outline of a train’s smokestack or the neat rows of merchandise in a grocery store, it’s the details that give a reader a sense of time and place to imagine what life would have been like, Rubin said.

Arcadia Publishing, first launched in Dover, N.H. in 1993, began as a small, local publisher aiming to create books that not only highlight their area’s history, but also preserve it by immortalizing it in book form.

Even though air traffic has been suspended over New York City, on Thanksgiving Day the Manhattan sky will be filled with large, colorful, helium-filled characters as a central part of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. A holiday tradition since 1924, the annual parade was first organized by Macy’s Department Store employees for city residents.

Some people like history. Others don’t. I do, and I particularly like to know about the area in which I live. So when I picked up the new book Radford, I had difficulty putting it down.

This packet of 15 black-and-white postcards features scenes from Savannah’s past, including automobile racers competing neck-and-neck on Estill Avenue (now Victory Drive) in the early 1900s; the nuclear ship Savannah passing by city’s river front in the 1960s; and local National Guardsman sitting atop a huge coastal artillery piece at Fort Screven of Tybee Island in 1916.

This is another volume of Arcadia Publishing’s well know Images of America (IOA) series. It is therefore a collection of photographs (many often post cards), with the text limited to a two-pages introduction and the captions for the photographs. Quality of the photos is mixed, but there are well-chosen to tell the story.

Proko and Stickles, together with Our Lady of Czestochowa Guild of Catholic Women have provided a valuable history of the Polish community in Worcester County, Massachusetts. Worcester County is in the center of the sates, and the Worcester Diocese is the heart of many Polish activities.