Archives for November 2014

 

Pine Valley is not only a golf club but an enclave. From its inception by George A. Crump, the Camden, New Jersey local who designed and built this magnificent course, it has been surrounded by mystery, excitement, and glamour. In 2013, it will celebrate its hundredth anniversary. Yet, although consistently ranked the number one golf […]

For those new to Philmont, the book hopes to provide a comprehensive illustration of what makes Philmont tick, and how Philmont became the iconic place it is today.

Honoring the Club’s history and reflecting on the values and foundations laid by its predecessors. Celebrating the present and cheering for the future, all of which has been chronicled in this book.

Book is a commemorative pictorial history of the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf on the occasion of its 150th anniversary.

Meriwether Lewis Electric Cooperative came to life in 1939. As a member-owned, electric utility, its goal is much the same now as it was then—to bring a better way of life, to provide low-cost, reliable electricity and to be a good neighbor to those we serve. As MLEC celebrates its seventy-fifth birthday, it seems only […]

Mathews County was formed in 1791 from Kingston Parish, one of four Anglican parishes that comprised Gloucester County (established in 1651), and was named for Brigadier General Thomas Mathews, then Speaker of the House of Delegates of the General Assembly of Virginia. The county has a rich, interesting history that began soon after Jamestown was […]

Abraham Lincoln left an indelible mark on the nation he sacrificed his life to preserve. The National Park Service maintains several sites that figured largely in the life of Abraham Lincoln. This book highlights three of those sites: Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site in Kentucky, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial in Indiana, and Lincoln Home […]

  In 1940 LIM College founder Maxwell F. Marcuse wrote, “The Laboratory Institute of Merchandising is probably the only school of its kind in America.” Its mission and methods were both unique and immensely successful. Seventy-five years, and seven thousand graduates later, the mission to prepare students for a successful career in the fashion industry […]

Over the last seventy-five years, it has been evident that God has been the one orchestrating the formation of the Reformed Bible Institute and the institution’s growth into the Reformed Bible College and then Kuyper College. From a few people with a vision and a handful of students studying in a cramped room above a […]