Hello everybody! We hope that you’ve had a great start to 2013. As we move forward into the new year, we can’t thank you enough for your participation in celebrating local history throughout 2012. In this post, we’ve got great photos from author events, a quick poll (so we can focus on bringing you more historical content that YOU find fascinating) and updates on THP news. Enjoy!
PA Books interviews Pennsylvania Wine authors Hudson Cattell and Linda Jones McKee, at Midtown Scholar Bookstore in Harrisburg.
A box-opening/champagne event for Seneca Army Depot. Left to right: Naomi Brewer, Ann Buddle, Walt Gable, Yvonne Gruele, Carolyn Zogg, Allan Buddle. Photo by Gail Snyder.
Fading Ads of Birmingham author Charles Buchanan signs books at Alabama Booksmith, alongside photographer Jonathan Purvis.
Prattville Books-A-Million manager, John Allsup, with authors Marc Parker and Melissa Benefield Parker.
Don Harrison at the Fairfield University Bookstore. It was great to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the bookstore, AND they raised almost $100 for the Red
Cross!
Galveston’s 37th Annual Dickens on The Strand Victorian Holiday Festival. History Press authors James Schmidt and Andrew Hall signed their local Texas books.
Author Rita Shuler presented findings from her book, Murder in the Midlands, at the Saluda Marquee. As a former forensic photographer for the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, she shared personal interactions with the key players in this famous manhunt and investigation.
Paul H. Geenen signs copies of Sherman Park: A Legacy of Diversity in Milwaukee at a local Barnes & Noble.
History Press author Ginger Pedersen and children’s book author Marsha Love share a table at Hand’s Office & Art Supply in Delray, Florida.
Author Greg Borzo presented his new book, Chicago Cable Cars, at the Harold Washington Chicago Public Library on January 24, 2013. Greg Johnson, president of the Chicago History Museum, is in the foreground (left). Photo courtesy of Serge Lubomudrov.
The audience absorbs Borzo’s cable car discussion. For almost one-quarter of a century Chicago boasted the largest cable car system the world has ever seen, transporting more than one billion riders. This gigantic public work filled residents with pride—and filled robber barons’ pockets with money. It also sparked a cable car building boom that spread to twenty-six other U.S. cities.
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Read more news from the History Press, including a call for submissions, an updated events calendar and new author interviews.
Oh, so many books and so little time.
Indeed! That’s a great quote by Frank Zappa.
We like this one, too:
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.
-Arnold Lobel