America Through Time

25/09/2025

🪦📚Pre-order alert: "TEXAS TOMBSTONES: NEW BRAUNFELS" by Tori Sandoval is published in November.

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Nestled along the scenic Comal River, New Braunfels, Texas, is a town rich in history and charm.

Known for its historic sites, it is home to the oldest bakery in Texas, a unique German waterpark, sprawling parks with trails and playgrounds, a train museum, and a spring-fed pool. The town’s dining and shopping scenes are equally vibrant, evolving alongside its recent growth, which has brought new buildings, homes, and retail establishments.

For photographer Tori Sandoval, however, the true beauty of New Braunfels lies beyond its modern attractions. Tori is captivated by the town’s historical roots and deep German heritage, finding inspiration in the old buildings and stories embedded within them. Her photography focuses on the tranquil cemeteries scattered throughout the area. These serene resting places house notable burials, expansive family plots, intricate wrought-iron fences, and beautifully crafted headstones.

Tori's favorite subjects include statues adorning graves and the personal tokens left behind in memory of the deceased. Through her lens, she invites viewers to discover a deeper, often overlooked beauty in these solemn spaces.

25/09/2025

📣📚 🌆 Available now: "DETROIT REVEALED: ANOTHER LOOK AT THE MOTOR CITY" by Leslie Cieplechowicz at 4AM Photography Detroit is out now.

Pre-order link 🔗 https://sut.pub/Detroit-2

"DETROIT REVEALED: ANOTHER LOOK AT THE MOTOR CITY" revisits the city to highlight more unseen and wonderful gems that are sure to charm the visitor. Found when working the road as a Detroit EMS paramedic, these compelling sites are frequented by the locals and are part of a rich cultural fabric woven onto the surface of the city. Visit the iconic Hitsville Museum and absorb the musical history that made the city famous. Wander through Hamtramck’s Poletown and grab a sizzling hot plate of pierogis and kielbasa. Spend an evening at the classic Raven Lounge, the oldest blues club in Michigan, where such legends as B. B. King performed. Throw a colorful ball down a slick lane at the Garden Bowl, the oldest continuously operating bowling alley in the city.

"DETROIT REVEALED: ANOTHER LOOK AT THE MOTOR CITY" embarks on an adventurous journey into an urban setting resplendent with places that will entertain and sate the most intrepid explorer.

25/09/2025

23/09/2025

🗓️📚 Available soon: "21st CENTURY LONG ISLAND: A HISTORY OF THE FIRST 25 YEARS" by Richard Panchyk is published October 2nd.

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So often, we get caught up in the idea of history being measured in centuries when so much has already happened in this century. "21st CENTURY LONG ISLAND" will appeal to any Long Islander who wants to know more about events and milestones they lived through in the last twenty-five years. The book offers a fresh take on local history, looking at some of the big moments, places, and people of Long Island since the year 2000. Featuring some of the changes that have come to Nassau and Suffolk Counties in the last quarter century, each chapter puts events into historical context, with stories and photos that look back at how our lives have been shaped and defined by recent history.

23/09/2025

📚🎨 : "THE LOST KINGDOM OF PITTSBURGH: A TRUE STORY OF ART AND EXILE IN THE STEEL CITY" by Kenneth J Weiss tells the fascinating story of three seeming unrelated individuals: a wealthy steel heiress, a world-renowned artist, and a Chinese bishop on then run from communist China. How their paths crossed and what ensued - discover more in the pages of this intriguing read!

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The first clues of their story are discovered when the author’s boyhood travels in the early 1970s lead him to a series of amazing structures hidden in the woods outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Over the years and decades that followed, a series of owners came and went from the property, each increasingly unfriendly. Some were openly hostile. The woods surrounding the property became thicker, and the trees were tagged with a series of signs: “Posted,” “Private Property,” and “No Trespassing.”

Stories even spread of a curious visitor being met with the barrel of a shotgun. Decades later, the author takes a chance return to the woods and finds that the structures are still there but deteriorating badly. Time is running out to learn about this remarkable place and the fascinating group of individuals that created it.This true story has never been told.

23/09/2025

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Around the World with Virginial Hines Listen to the Podcast Here This week we’re joined by our friend Virginia Hines. She’s a photographer and former publishing industry professional who has travel…

19/09/2025

📚"Visionary," "Man of God," "Cult Leader," "Fugitive," "Inmate," "Patriot." John R. Harrell of Louisville, IL, far better known as “Johnny Bob," was—rightfully or not—called all those things during his long, colorful life. "JOHNNY BOB: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN R. HARRELL OF LOUISVILLE, ILLINOIS" by Cary O'Dell tells the story of this deeply religions and independently wealthy many who was known for his eccentric estate and the religious colony, which many labeled a "cult".

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In August of 1961, U.S. federal agents stormed his Louisville property to retrieve an AWOL Marine who had taken refuge on Harrell's "sovereign" grounds. This military action, involving over 100 armed officers, was national news and set off a chain of events in the U.S. courts, in military tribunals, and eventually across the United States as Harrell and his family became fugitives, running from the law.
This book retraces Johnny Bob Harrell's nine decades from his claims of an early "miracle" healing to the founding of his religious community to the '61 siege, and Harrell's subsequent life as fugitive, federal inmate, and right-wing provocateur.

18/09/2025

📣 alert: "GLACIER PARK’S BLACKFEET AND THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY" by David R. Butler examines the fashion by which the Great Northern Railway used the image of the plains-dwelling Blackfeet Native Americans to sell the romantic as well as western image of the relationship the Blackfeet had with the mountainous environment of Glacier National Park, Montana.

Read more 👉🏼 https://sut.pub/Blackfeet

Examples of artwork and photography sponsored by the Great Northern are presented that evoke a harmonious relationship between Glacier Park and the Blackfeet, all to entice visitors to use the Great Northern Railway to get to the park and use the tourist facilities there built by the Great Northern.

Methods by which the Great Northern exploited the Blackfeet presence—both in the park and across the country—to attract visitors to Glacier National Park are also examined.

17/09/2025

📣 alert: "GOTHIC AND STRANGE TRUE TALES OF THE CIVIL WAR" by Keven McQueen includes dozens of bizarre incidents from the days before, during, and after the war that are not well-known to general readers or professional historians.

Read more 👉🏼 https://sut.pub/Gothic-War

These stories include legal ramifications of slavery not mentioned in standard history books; soldiers’ executions; premonitions and ghosts; the link between a Lincoln assassin and a Jack the Ripper suspect; wealthy antebellum black slaveowners; strange battlefield deaths; problems concerning disposal of massive numbers of dead soldiers; tricks used to escape the draft; multiracial Confederate soldiers; the full story of the embalming and exhibition of Lincoln’s body; examples showing that selling humans at auction was still legal and often practiced long after the war; and much more.

17/09/2025

📣📚 : "ABANDONED IDAHO: GHOST TOWNS, GOLD MINES, AND MORE" by Howard Frisk at Howard Frisk Photography is available now!

Read more 👉🏼 https://sut.pub/Abandoned-Idaho

Extensively researched, this book unveils the rich history of the Gem State through a visual journey with historical black-and-white archival images followed by present-day full-color photographs of the same places.

Each photograph in Abandoned Idaho has a story behind it, and it is through these thought-provoking stories and first-hand accounts that one can find a human connection to the people that once lived, worked, played, and in some cases, died, at the places revealed in this book. Within these pages, an adventure awaits, for many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines explored in Abandoned Idaho are unknown even to Idaho’s life-long residents.

The author and contributing photographers have captured the haunting beauty of decay, transporting readers to the bygone era of bustling pioneer towns, mining camps, railroads, and one-room schoolhouses that are now little more than silent echoes of the past. Through the comparison of historical and present-day photographs, the dramatic time-wrought transformations can be truly appreciated. The author offers a perfect blend of engaging storytelling and insightful historical details.

13/09/2025

: "THRILLING TALES OF THE MONTROSE SEARCH AND RESCUE" by Mike Lawler

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Los Angeles is one of the biggest cities in the world, but is incongruously a ten-minute drive from a vast impenetrable mountain wilderness, the Angeles National Forest.

This 700,000-acre forest includes the San Gabriel Mountains, which are among the most treacherous and steep mountain ranges in the world. Every year, thousands of people get lost or injured hiking or skiing, get trapped in the abandoned mines that honeycomb the remote canyons, or drive their cars or motorcycles off the precipitous mountain roads that snake along cliff faces.

Since 1947, a dedicated group of volunteers from the Crescenta Valley has been rescuing these hapless victims.

The Montrose Search and Rescue team is one of the oldest SAR groups in the nation, and among the most professional, despite receiving no pay for risking their lives.

They perform search and rescue feats high on peaks, down in canyons, deep underground, in the snow and ice, and from the air. They have been called to travel nationwide to assist other SAR teams with less expertise. In their seventy years of service they have racked up thousands of thrilling rescues.

Most of the stories are uplifting, but some will break your heart. These men are modern-day heroes, and they live right here in our community.