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Photo-essay of Lewis County history published
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By JONATHAN FRAYSURE Staff Writer
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VANCEBURG -- Baseball, apple pie, taxes and now Lewis County.
With Wednesday's release of Images of America: Lewis County, a photo-essay from Arcadia Publishing, a local area has been put on the map for what is considered historic America.
Paula Franke, co-author of the book, is also the copy editor and production editor for the Lewis County Herald. When Arcadia contacted her with this proposal, she jumped at the opportunity.
"We were contacted by e-mail asking if we knew anyone who would be interested in the project," said Franke. "They wanted to build up their Kentucky list (in the series)."
Franke shared writing credit of Lewis County with Dr. William Talley, an expert in the genealogy and history of northeastern Kentucky. The two had a large head start on the project, explained Franke.
"Dr. Talley and I had been collecting pictures for several years," she said. "Once we got the word out, people started contributing."
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The two authors began selecting photographs and writing picture captions in October of last year. They completed the book in April.
"I would say half of the pictures in the book were already collected," said Franke. "But the other half had never been published before."
So far, reactions to the book have been very positive, according to Franke.
"Everybody who sees my advanced copy wants one," she explained, adding, "they want it now."
Even though she had no prior knowledge of the publishing company or its Images of America series, Franke has been very impressed with the finished product.
"Arcadia sent us a copy of Elizabethtown, Tenn. to show us a standard setup," she said. "(I could see) they were very good at fixing up old photographs."
Arcadia Publishing has published this particular series for 11 years. Each title provides a photo history of a town or region with vintage black-and-white photographs.
The company also publishes other series, such as Images of Sports, Black America, Campus History and Images of Rail. It is the leading publisher of regional history books in the nation, totalling more than 3,000 titles in print.
With more than 200 photos in the newest volume of the series, it would seemingly be difficult to pick just one as a favorite. But Franke can point to one she's blown up, framed and hung in her house as her number one choice.
"The picture of Camp Comfort in the outdoors chapter (page 58). I can look for hours and hours. It's so much fun, every time I look at it I find something new."
Contact Jonathan Fraysure at jonathan.fraysure@lee.net or 564-9091, ext. 276. |
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