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2011 MAYSVILLE FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

December 10, 2011
The 7th annual Maysville Festival of Books book fair will be December 10, 2011 from 10 am until 3 pm. Twenty Authors in attendance with over 100 titles available!

The annual Book Fair is a fundraiser for the Museum Center's education programs.  The historical research library contains over 19,000 archival documents, more than 18,000 photographs and postcards, nearly 5,000 research library books, computerized databases and Internet access, and reference materials and books devoted to genealogical research.  The museum exhibits illustrate the history of this pioneer gateway to the west.

Authors will offer a wide variety of adult, children, cookbooks, and poetry books.

Steven Vest

• THAT Kind of Journalist:  The Collected Ramblings • Brian Bits:  A Collection • Another Serving:  Kentucky Monthly’s 10^th Anniversary Cookbook • Sacred Places of Kentucky • Seasoned Cooking—Kentucky

 Viki Pidgeon

• Ireland’s Comfort Food • I is for Ireland

Stephen Zimmer

• The Exodus Gate • The Storm Guardians • The Seventh Throne • Crown of Vengeance • Dream of Legends • Dreams of Steam • Dreams of Steam II:  Brass & Bolts

 Don J. Dampier

• The Quilter’s Quest:  Muses of a Non-Quilting Husband of a Quilter • Finding the Fifties • Why Write a Book?

 Steve Demaree

• The Hilltop Murder Mystery • The Precipice Point Murder Mystery • Murder in the Library • The Parkway Arms Murder Mystery • Murder at the High School Reunion • Photo Finish • Aylesford Place:  The First Year • Aylesford Place:  The Second Year • Aylesford Place:  The Third Year • Lexington & Me  • Reflecting Upon God’s Word

• Stories from the Heart

 Loni Burchett

• Bear and Katie in “The Great Searsport Caper • Bear and Katie in “A Day at Nestlenook Farm • Bear and Katie in “A Day with Friends • Bear and Katie in “The Riverboat Ride • Bear and Katie in “A Crazy Day at the Beach

 Charles Roe

• A Season for Healing • A Fort on the Chenoa • Greenup Time • My Native Home • Thistles • Barren River • Cumberland

 Andrew McNeill

• Breckenridge County

 Tutt Lambert

• The Men of K-2 in the Forgotten War

 Lois J. Lambert

• Treasured Memories of a Civil War Widow • Ninety-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry:  With the Civil War Letters of Lt. Colonel Benjamin Franklin Coates and an Annotated Roster of the Men of Company C. • Heroes of the Western Theater:  Thirty-third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry

 Jim La Barbara

• Jim La Barbara “The Music Professor”:  A Life Amplified Through Radio & Rock ‘n’  Roll

 Ron Elliott

• Assassination at the State House:  The unsolved murder of Kentucky’s William Goebel • Inside the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire • Through the Eyes of Lincoln:  A modern Photographic Journey • From Hilltop to Mountaintop:  the Life and legacy of one Iwo Jima Flagraiser

Carolyn Miller

•Grapevine Dispatch:  The Voice of Antislavery Messages • Bracken County

Ed McClanahan

• I Just Hitched In From The Coast:  The Ed McClanahan Reader • The Natural Man • Famous People I Have Known • O The Clear Moment

Carlton Jackson

• Bittersweet Journey:  Andrew Jackson’s 1829 Inaugural Trip • Hattie:  A Life of Hattie McDaniel • Kentucky Outlaw Man • Allied Secret:  The Sinking of HMT Rohna • Joseph Gavi Young Hero of the Minsk Ghetto

 Abigail Keam

• Death By A Honeybee • Death By Drowning

 Sarah Cobb Spradlin

• Wanted:  Perfect Man

Jerry Commodore

• Steamboats on the Inland Rivers • A Centennial Biographical History of Champaign County, Ohio, 1902 • A Forgotten Heritage: The German Methodist Church • A Guide to Genealogical Resources in Cincinnati & Hamilton County, Ohio, 6th Ed. • A History of Adams County, Ohio, 1900 • A Magnificent Irishman from Appalachia: The Letters of Lt. James Gildea, 1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery L • An Iams/Imes Family History • Annotated Lawrence County, Ohio, Children’s Home Register, 1874–1926 • Atlas of Appalacian Trails to the Ohio River • Atlas of Southern Trails to the Mississippi • Atlas of Trails West of the Mississippi •Atlas of Northern Trails Westward from New England • Atlas of Settlement Between Appalachian Mountains & Mississippi/Missouri Valleys • Battery H, First Ohio Light Artillery: The James Barnett Papers • Beyond the Names: A Tribute to Clermont County, Ohio Vietnam War Dead • Brown County, Ohio, Marriage Records, 1818–1850 • Brown County, Ohio, Marriage Records, 1851-1900 • The Buckeye Vanguard: History of the Forty-ninth Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, 1861–1865 • The Cincinnati Germans in the Civil War by Gustav Tafel: Translated and Edited with Supplements on Germans from Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana in the Civil War by Don Heinrich Tolzmann • Cincinnati Sculpture Unveiled: The Story Behind the Art • Clermont County, Ohio: As Extracted from Howe’s Historical Collections of Ohio •  Common Valor: Ambush at Srok Rung; November 7, 1967 • Donegal: Irish Justice • Duty Well Performed: The Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry • Ellis Island • Ellis Island’s Famous Immigrants • Fantastic Shadows Upon the Ground: The 35th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War • Feathers in my Heart: Haiku Poetry • Freedom’s Struggle • German-Americana: Selected Essays • German Cincinnati • German Heritage Guide to the Greater Cincinnati Area, 2nd Edition • German Heritage Guide to the State of Ohio • German Pioneer Accounts of the Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 • Ghosts: Ohio’s Haunted Landscapes, Lost Arts, and Forgotten Places, 2nd Edition • Historical Collections of Brown County, Ohio • History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio, 1884 • Illinois’ German Heritage • In Their Honor: The Men Behind the Names of Our Military Installations • John A. Roebling and his Suspension Bridge on the Ohio River • The Life and Legacy of Lincoln-Grant School, Covington, Kentucky, 1866–1976 • Marriages Recorded in Hamilton County, Ohio, 1870–1884 • Marriages Recorded in Hamilton County, Ohio, 1885–1889 • Marriages Recorded in Hamilton County, Ohio, 1890–1894 • Marriages Recorded in Hamilton County, Ohio, 1895–1899 • Milford, Ohio • Missouri’s German Heritage, 2nd Edition • More Nutritious, Still Delicious • New Ulm, Minnesota: J. H. Strasser’s History & Chronology • 0725 Ohio Civil War Tales: A Primer of Copperheads, Hotheads, Tinclads, Abolitionists, Train Thieves, & Quantrill’s Missing Skull • Old St. Mary’s Church, Cincinnati, Ohio • Our Journeys Toward Freedom: One Family’s Search for Freedom During and After World War II • Over-the-Rhine Tour Guide • Pearls of Blue & Gray: Women of the Civil War • Reflections of the Inn • Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried in Hamilton County, Ohio • Scioto County, Ohio, Newspaper Abstracts & Historical Reminiscences 1866–1869 • Scioto County, Ohio, Newspaper Index, Deaths and Marriages, 1818–1865 • Scioto County, Ohio, Post Offices and Postmasters, 1805 to 2001 • Secret Place • Shakers of Indiana: A West Union Reader • The Cincinnati Sound • To Crown Myself With Honor: The Wartime Letters of Captain Asbury Gatch, Ninth OhioVolunteer Cavalry • T. P. White & Sons Funeral Home Index, Cincinnati, Ohio 1935–1976 • Translated Abstracts of Death Notices in the Portsmouth Correspondent, 1894–1908 • Widows’ Dowers of Washington County, Tennessee, 1803–1899 • William James Smith’s Memoirs of the 2nd Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Company M • Wooden Shoe Hollow: Charlotte Pieper’s Cincinnati German Novel • Words of Wisdom from a Country Doctor, Once Removed.

 A great way to check off your Holiday Gift list—Who doesn’t need a book?  Remember, members always receive a 10% discount on book fair books and in the Museum Shop!