Scott Mingus' new book, "The Louisiana Tigers.'
More than a dozen books have been written on York County in the Civil War in the past 10 years.
Add another one: Scott Mingus' newest work "The Lousiana Tigers in the Gettysburg campaign."
For a mini-review of the book, visit: York County's Widow Zinn to Confederate Gen. Jubal Early in new Louisiana Tigers' book: 'Are you goin' to destroy us?'
Columbia Malleable Casting Corporation workers at Second and Linden streets in Columbia are shown on the cover of the new book 'Columbia, Marietta and Wrightsville.' Molds they will use to produce iron castings are in the foreground of this Columbia Historic Preservation Society photo.
Arcadia Publishing has released a new photo book 'Columbia, Marietta and Wrightsville' whose name describes its contents.
For a mini-review about Frederic H. Abendschein's book on those river towns, click here.
In a previous Book Buzz post, we wrote about Bob Ketenheim's postcard history book about Glen Rock.
Not long ago, the Glen Rock Carol Singers published a revised history.
Now comes another book about this southern York County borough. "Glen Rock -- A Historical Review" will be published next year as part of Glen Rock's 150th anniversary.
For details, click on Books about Glen Rock abound, and there's a lot of history to write about.
In the past, Bob Ketenheim has put forth photo books on Shrewsbury and New Freedom.
Now, it's Glen Rock's turn. For details, click here.
Philip K. Eberly's "Susquehanna Radio, The First 50 Years" is not a new book.
But it's a moment to recommend this 1992 publication, considering the recent death of Mr. Eberly, a pioneering regional radio exec.
The learn more about the book, its author and where to get a copy, click here.
Patrick Radden Keefe will speak and sign copies of his new book, "The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream," from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the York County Heritage Trust Historical Society Museum, 250 E. Market St.
Below, Byron Borger, owner of Hearts & Minds bookstore in Dallastown, writes about the book and his own experiences:
I can remember the conversation like it was yesterday. I recall planning the subsequent protest/prayer vigil at York County Prison, the guns aimed at us there on Concord Road, the impromptu press conference. I recall the natural leadership of my dear friend and local United Methodist pastor, Joan Maruskin as she stepped -- pushed by the Spirit, she might say -- into the local and national limelight.
I will never forget the gladness in the moment we met the savvy and passionate -- -ticked off with righteous indignation, he might say --- small town lawyer, Craig Trebilcock. It was obvious that he was willing and able to speak to prison officials and TV reporters and the array of religious human rights advocates gathered at the prison.
It was early August 1993. It was one of the most important days in my life as it started an involvement with the local support group, People of the Golden Vision, gathered to demand fair asylum hearings for dozens of Chinese immigrants detained by the INS, sent oddly to our central Pennsylvania prison.
When "The Snakehead" author Patrick Keefe writes of that day, halfway through his sprawling epic of organized crime in Chinatown, climaxing in the study of human smuggling, including the Golden Venture detainees, my hands shook.
Scott Butcher's 'Gettysburg Perspectives.'
Prolific York author/photographer has written what one reviewer says is "one of the best, if not the best, photographic anthologies of Gettysburg."
And he has other books on the way.
For details, click here.
Jim Hubley's 'Off the Record.'
The York County Heritage Trust has received copies of longtime York Daily Record/Sunday News columnist Jim Hubley's "Off the Record."
The book, a collection of the late columnist's work, was previously believed to be out of print.
For more details and information about purchasing the book, click here.
Long-time York County lawyer Jeffrey C. Bortner has penned a lively look at York County's legal community.
And it provides useful information for serious inquirers about the local bar in the past 50 years.
For details about his work, available via York County libraries, click here.
A new book by Patrick Radden Keefe, "The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream," highlights York in the campaign to secure human rights for hundreds of Chinese dissidents seeking political asylum.
Keefe is the first to write a book on the politics, international intrigue and human drama of the refugees of the Golden Venture.
Keefe will speak and sign books from 2 to 4 p.m. Aug. 2 at the York Historical Society Museum, 250 E. Market St., York. Several of the Golden Venture immigrants, political insiders, and members of The People of the Golden Vision will also speak.
June Grove is an expert on York County family history.
So her recent book "The Heffner Family of York County, PA, and Associated Families" will be a resource for scores of York countians.
For details, click here.
David Kushner's "Levittown."
David Kushner tells the story of York, Pa.'s Bill and Daisy Myers and the discrimination they faced after moving into a new house in Bucks County's Levittown in 1957.
Kushner's 2009 work draws from - and expands upon by bringing in many other sources -Daisy Myers' 2005 memoir "Sticks 'n Stones."
For more, click on the post: New book 'Levittown' tells about the Myers family's quest to live the American dream - in York, Pa., too.
John D. Fair's work covers the storied growth of York Barbell.
Steroids use is back in the news with allegations that superstar Alex Rodriguez used the illegal drug as a member of the New York Yankees.
In "Muscletown U.S.A.," John D. Fair comprehensively covers Bob Hoffman and his company, York Barbell, and all they meant in the world of bodybuilding and weightlifting. He also writes about the York and York Barbell connection to early steroid use in sports. The Rodriguez controversy comes on the 10th anniversary of the publication of Fair's Penn State Press book.
For details about Fair's work and a York Daily Record/Sunday News story on the local steroids story, click here.
Sarah Byrn Rickman's book "The Originals" covers York native Aline Rhonie and other pilots of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron in World War II.
The book has been around a few years but contains interesting material on female pilots who played an important role in World War II.
Aline Rhonie was one of the pilots. For more on this Renaissance woman, click here.
Dr. Philip A. Hoover's book wonderfully explores country doctoring in the 20th century.
It's been 15 years since Philip A. Hoover's "Echoes of the Health Century: A Physician's Memoir" came out.
Its 222 pages are packed with anecdotes about the situations - often humorous, sometimes severe - that a country doctor would often face.
The York Town Square blog post explores one such issue, a pragmatic Pennsylvania Dutch view of teen pregnancy.
The book is available via the York County Library System.
York County native Judy Druck Routson has written "The George Druck Family Chronicle, 1741-2008." Her family history links her ancestors' life stories with the history of York County. In addition to the Drucks, who settled in the area named for them, Druck Valley, her book also includes the names Beecher, Billet, Burger, Dunnick, Emenheiser, Klein, Kunkel, Lehman, Mitzel, Sechrist, Seiple, Shaffer, Sipe, Strong and Wambaugh, among others.
Routson grew up in York Township, attended William Penn Senior High School and is a 1959 graduate of Dallastown Area High School. She has been a writer for a central New York weekly newspaper since 1993.
For more about her book, go to www.judyroutson.wordpress.com.
