Discover Rockland Through Time with New Book

Local authors share the history using vintage and modern images
 
ROCKLAND, Mass. - Oct. 24, 2014 - PRLog -- New book by local authors, John Galluzzo and Donald Cann, explores Rockland’s history over time.  The newest pictorial history distributed by Arcadia Publishing is titled Rockland Through Time and is set to release on November 3, 2014.  Boasting 180 images depicting scenes of days gone by, the book explores the history of this unique Massachusetts city.

When Rockland was king, shoes were its currency. As part of a seven-town shoe manufacturing district that saw its heyday between the 1880s and 1920s, Rockland helped make one quarter of all the shoes being worn on American feet during that time period. The factory names represented the best the country had to offer: Just Wright, Emerson, Hurley Brothers, and more. Time has changed all that. Using images from the Dyer Memorial Library and the Historical Society of Old Abington as well as images from today, see what has become of the buildings and homes of the golden age of Rockland.

Highlights of Rockland Through Time include:

Vintage postcards from the largest apothecary in the region at the time, Estes Drug Store.
Images of well-known public buildings, schools, and churches
Visualize Rockland full of elms that are no longer today from the Dutch Elm disease; imported from beetles that took out approximately 75% of American elms in the area.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or www.arcadiapublishing.com.

Arcadia Publishing is the nation’s leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States. Discover more than 9,000 books on the heritage of America’s people and places.

Rockland Through Time

by John Galluzzo and Donald Cann

Price: $22.99

96  pages/ softcover

Available: November 3,  2014
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