This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FCC.2ACE/2000 Message Board Post: To Whom It May Concern: My name is Lauren Bobier and I am an editor with Arcadia Publishing in Charleston, SC. I hope that you can offer me some guidance and assistance. As the editor responsible for all of our West Virginia titles, I'm very interested in informing Brooke County area historians, genealogists, archivists, community leaders, and museums about the opportunities that we offer. We publish a popular series of photographic histories called Images of America, which chronicles the histories of communities, towns, and neighborhoods throughout the country. I do want to emphasize that, unlike many local history publishers, we are not a vanity press. Rather, we finance the entire publication and pay royalties to the author, which makes it a great fundraiser for organizations. I am interested in adding Brooke County to our 2005 program. If you would like to receive more information about our company, I will be happy to put together a package and mail it to you. Please pass along my contact information to anyone else you know who might be interested in working on a photographic history of Brooke County. Thank you for your time and I hope to hear from you soon! Lauren Bobier Acquisitions Editor Arcadia Publishing 420 Wando Park Blvd. Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 tel. 843.853.2070 (ext 128) fax 843.853.0044 www.arcadiapublishing.com