Costco to Host Book Signing for Local Ogden Dunes Authors

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. - June 17, 2014 - PRLog -- Ogden Dunes, boasting more than 200 historic images, authors Dick Meister and Ken Martin provide the history of a unique and dynamic residential community over the decades of the 20^th century.

Ogden Dunes documents the community as it evolved from a highly restricted upscale resort community for Chicagoans and a bedroom community for the Gary upper-middle-class to becoming a middle-class residential community serving the returning G.I.s and their families after 1945. Authors Meister and Martin hope that the publication of this book will encourage current and future residents of all communities to save their family and community photos and stories so that future historians can continue to write community histories.

All of the profits from the sale of the book are being donated to the Historical Society of Ogden Dunes. Eighty percent of the images in the book came from local residents who have donated them to the Historical Society as well as images from private family collection.

Join the Authors for a Book Signing!

Where:  Costco

1310 E. 79^th Ave, Merrillville IN 46410

When: Saturday, June 28^th, 2014; 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online (http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/9781467111898/Ogden-Dunes).

Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States.  Our mission is to make history accessible and meaningful through the publication of books on the heritage of America’s people and places.  Discover more than 8,500 small towns and downtowns at http://www.arcadiapublishing.com.

Ogden Dunes

by authors, Dick Meister, Ken Martin, and the Historical Society of Ogden Dunes

Images of America Series

128 pages/ softcover

Available: May 26, 2014