Natures Garden of Crystals - FAQs

Nature's Garden of Crystals is a new book project which invites mineral dealers and mineral collectors to submit images of their choice to be published in a full-color, high quality, hardbound book. Scope and rationale for the Nature's Garden of Crystals project are found in a detailed description in the December 23, 2009 blog page:
http://mainefeldspar.blogspot.com/2009/12/mineral-book-advertising-prospectus.html

Be sure to come back to this FAQ section as more questions are listed or as new information updates an answer.

1. Do my minerals need to be photographed by a professional?  No! Today's large format cameras are widely in use every day by mineral dealers and mineral collectors. There are also high quality small format cameras which can give thrilling sharp, in-focus, and deep depth of field results. 


1*. Do I need to know how to use PhotoShop? No! Free Expert PhotoShop service is included in your subscription.


1a. Is this book a good deal? Yes. If you were to have only two full-page advertisements or only four half-page ads in the popular mineral magazine, you'd have to pay more money than for a single subscription to Nature's Garden of Crystals. Each subscription is entitled to 15 full pages for specimens plus one full-page informational/biographical page. 


     It is also important to remember that after each magazine issue is replaced by the current issue, your advertisement in it would automatically become passé. A book such as Nature's Garden of Crystals lives on and has a separate existence, while individual issues in a magazine series are soon buried together on the shelves.


Advertising managers have long advocated that a successful business should invest 6-10% of its operational budget into advertising and promotion. 

1b. Is the economy all wrong? No. While some mid-level mineral collectors are "economizing" truly fine minerals are still in demand. Nature's Garden of Crystals provides a new venue for showcasing fine mineral specimens in a format that will last.


1c. Are there themes for the book? Each chapter's content is governed by the wishes of the subscriber. One chapter will be about emeralds, one chapter may be about Chinese minerals, others will be about aesthetic minerals of all kinds, etc.

1d. Are illustrated specimens in demand? Yes. Fine mineral specimens which have been illustrated have become increasingly desirable. Please see the January 13 blog which shows a proposed specimen label to be issued with illustrated specimens. Format can vary with the specimen owner's wishes and may include the name of the current owner.
http://mainefeldspar.blogspot.com/2010/01/illustration-label-for-natures-garden.html


1e. Will my name be used in the book? Yes. Each one of the subscribers may be the author of their chapters and appear in the table of contents as the author. Each image will be captioned with the specimen owner's name if different than the subscriber.


2. How many subscriptions are there? The book is designed to have 8 subscribers, but the potential of the project is only limited by the deadline of the printer and the projected release date for the book.

3. When will the book appear at the newsstands? Delivery is tentatively scheduled before the Denver Show, but should be available before Munich. New subscriptions have pushed the deadline slightly into the future.

4. How many books will I get?  Each subscription will be entitled to 50 books delivered by common carrier or media mail at the publisher's convenience. Special shipping can be arranged.

5. What are the rules for submitting images? Nature's Garden of Crystals is an open invitation book where subscribers can showcase minerals they are proud of. The subscribers will select the images they want to have published. The images have to have high quality, but the choice of specimens is left to the subscriber. All submitted images should be digital. If you have film images you can have a lab convert your images to high resolution digital files for a small fee.

6. How big will the images be? The maximum printed image size will be 7 x 7 inches (about 17 x 17 cm).

7. What are high quality images? In simplest terms, all images in the book must look good. Submitted images should be in sharp focus, properly exposed, true color daylight balanced, pleasing contrast, featureless background (black, gray, or white preferred but other colors accepted which are tasteful), etc.
     If your specimen is taken with a 6 or more megapixel camera and if you use the full frame, you will have enough pixels as long as the file is kept as a tiff file (see explanation). If you have to crop the image, you loose pixels. If the image is cut by half from side to side and half by top to bottom the image is 1/2 x 1/2 = 1/4 as large as you started.

Explanation: Computer screens have low resolution. Pictures of only a few kilobytes look reasonably good on the internet. Pictures on your home printer have higher resolution and may still look acceptable.  The primary limitation regarding image size is that the book's print resolution will be still higher: 350 ppi (= pixels per inch = 138 ppcm = pixels per centimeter). The image area in the book will be about 7 x 7 inches (about 17 x 17 cm). An image which fills the maximum image area would be 7 X 350 ppi by 7 X 350 ppi = 6 million pixels. As a dot can be equal a pixel, a digital image has to be 6 megapixels to be printed at 350 dpi. A 4.3 megapixel image will look at its best printed up to a size of  5 x 7 inches (12.5 x 17.78 cm). Remember that megapixels and megabytes are not the same and there is really no way to calculate how big an image can be from megabytes. If at all possible, when you download images from your memory card DO NOT save them as jpegs, save them as tiff format.  If you have a 10 megapixel camera, the only way to have 10 megapixel images is to save them as a tiff file. Downloading images as jpegs throws away pixels. The book printer tells me that they have a program which may "morph" a small image to larger size with the needed resolution, but I have not seen what the results look like. I have been exceptionally pleased what they do with normal images and I know they are going to do a good job with either format. If you have a large jpeg image, the resolution should be OK.

I might not have described this accurately enough, but you might want to see a website:
http://www.rideau-info.com/photos/mythdpi.html

8. Can my images be processed? Yes. PhotoShop is a commonly used program to process images. Unfortunately, it can also be grossly misused. Over-increasing the contrast of an image makes it unusable. Similarly, Smart Sharpen or the like can not make up for original lack of focus. Increasing the size of an image file in PhotoShop will not improve the print resolution. The original image has to look good before it is processed by any photo manipulating program. It is also easy enough to improve the apparent transparency of a crystal, remove damage, etc. and the integrity of an image compared with the specimen is left to the subscriber's conscience as the publisher will ordinarily not have a chance to see the original specimens. Nonetheless, the person familiar with the published image may one day see your specimen and may note any discrepancies.

PhotoShop support is available as part of your subscription!

PhotoShop Hints: If you are creating a digital background, such as all black or all white, do NOT use the "paintbrush" tool or the "select all" tool: the results are horrible. Use the darken/lighten tool whenever possible. Magnify the image, choose shadows or highlights to work with, set the tool at 65% +/- hardness to avoid harsh edges, and do not use the tool to trace the image. Irregularities should stay with the image edge and tracing smooths them out and makes the effect obvious. Approach the edge of the specimen from the background with the darken/lighten tool and "pick away" at the background without darkening or lightening the edge of the specimen image. Release the left click function of the mouse frequently.

     Check your results constantly by reviewing the Image -> Adjustments -> Levels tool. Move the middle slider in "Levels" to lighten the image to its maximum so you can see what places that may have been missed by the darken/lighten tool. Click "cancel" and return to editing the image. (If you forget and click "OK", you can always use "control Z" or use the history menu to remove the effect.) When you save, always use "save as" and add "a", "b", "c", etc. at the end of the file name. Keep the original and subsequent versions of the image in case you want to start over at some point. Don't use Smart Sharpen, instead use Unsharp Mask at 100% and 1 pixel radius to avoid creating or accentuating artificial highlights. Remember, unwanted image processing effects are nearly impossible to fix.

9. What format should the images be in? Tiff will be the preferred format, but large jpegs are also an option. 

10. Will I get to see galley proofs? Yes. You will have two weeks to make comments and to approve the galley. We are both committed to the highest print quality possible, but trivial concerns can not delay the production schedule. After two weeks, the publisher will have the final decision over the reasonableness of comments and will relay prudent directives to the printer.

11. Are polished specimens permitted? Yes. Whether you have variscite, rhodonite, or agate slabs, they certainly need to be polished to be appreciated.

12. Is jewelry permitted? No. There is a separate book offered at the same rates. Please inquire.

13. Are fossils permitted? Technically some of the best calcite crystals in the world are reworked fossils, but they are permitted because they are crystals. No real fossils will be illustrated in Nature's Garden of Crystals. An independent fossil book will be available.

14. Must a mineral specimen be a crystal? No. A great gold nugget or a fine wire silver are among the many exceptions permitted.

15. Could I have a whole book about my collection? Yes. Please inquire.

16. Will this book be sold to the general mineral collecting public? Yes. The anticipated retail price will be $19.95

17. What is the deadline for becoming a subscriber? Commitments are being received now to assure a place in the book. Paid commitments should be agreed upon as soon as possible. Paid commitments on or after March 19, 2010 may be too late. The book will be submitted to the printer about May 1, 2010.

18. Will I have input into the book's design? Yes. You can personalize your chapter. Remember, the shortness of the production schedule means everything needs to be as simple as possible.

19. Is there an "About the subscriber" page in the book? Yes. Each subscriber may, at their choice, have a full page to tell who they are. One or two images may be submitted to support their text, but not of an individual specimen. A picture may show a portrait of the subscriber, their place of business, their mineral exhibit, or business logo.

20. How much is a subscription? A single subscription is $3500. Additional pages are available at $475 for each pair (2) images. The two image increment is designed to keep each chapter ending in the same position.

21. How many of my images will be used? Each subscription will get 15 individual specimen images. One image per page. Two images united into one image file will be counted as two images, but note the exceptions.

22. May I have multiple specimens in one image? No. The format is one mineral one caption per page. The exception is that a group of specimens of the same mineral from the same location may be used or a thumbnail photo may be added in support. Please inquire if you want to see an example page of the exceptions.

23. Do you accept meteorites? Yes. Ideally the meteorite should show an interesting feature or polished face and not be just an irregular rock.

24. Do you accept fluorescent minerals? Yes. The image of the fluorescing specimen should be in sharp focus.

25. Do subscribers get royalties? No. The remains of the press run will help to pay printing and other costs and that expectation has been figured into the low price of creating the book.

26. Do I retain the copyrights to my images? Yes. The subscribers are allowing the publication of their images in the one book, Nature's Garden of Crystals, and the publisher will not reuse them for another purpose.

27. May I buy extra copies of the book? Yes. Extra copies of the book may be purchased by subscribers at below wholesale.


28. Will specimen prices appear in the book? No. Nature's Garden of Crystals is a mineral appreciation book.

29. Does the specimen have to travel or will there be a site visit? No travel will be involved. The specimens will be described by the subscriber; including mineral name, locality as used at Mindat (as a standard), specimen dimensions (at least length and width), plus up to about two hundred words about the specimen. The number of words available for a caption will vary with the size of the image and the book editor will help with this feature.

30. How many copies will be printed? The press run is yet to be determined. About 2000 copies will be printed in the first print run. Stay tuned.

Illustration Label for Nature's Garden of Crystals Specimens

New Books in the Works

This year will see 2 new books!  Nature's Garden of Crystals is described in the December 23 blog (Please scroll down for details). Already have lots of enthusiasm expressed and have a line up of beautiful images already. Will post example images as time rolls along. (Be sure to subscribe to this blog for updates.) Whether Tucson 2010 is better than expected or worse than expected, Nature's Garden of Crystals should reach it's minimum number of subscribers. (If business is good, optimism will prompt subscriptions, if business is poor, optimism will prompt subscriptions.) At any rate, advertising accelerates sales. Of course, figured specimens don't have to be for sale and the intent of the book is to provide an artistic venue about good specimens for public appreciation. All of the authors so far have opted for an aesthetic discussion of their minerals combined with the historical lore associated with the specimens. The content is very interesting! Publication is anticipated before the end of the year, 2010. Pre-orders will be accepted in November, 2010. Be sure to re-check up-dates of this blog.

Book 2: Collector's Guide to Granite Pegmatites was submitted to the publisher on December 8, 2009. The pre-layout was corrected in May, 2010. This book will also be available in December, 2010 and pre-orders will be accepted in November.

Up-coming Books


Minerals After Dark is being prepared and will appear in 2011. Research, writing, and photography is partly finished. This book is about collecting fluorescent minerals and will have an entirely new approach to this beautiful aspect of our hobby.  Be sure to re-check up-dates of this blog.

I had hoped to complete a new history in 2010. It is about the gem mining in the Newry-Rumford, Maine mining district, and which has the working title: Tourmaline and Goldfields of Maine: Newry's Secret. But funded projects must take precedence over labors of love (Besides, the companion volume - Minerals of Oxford County - Northern District will have a huge number of species to work on. Newry's Secret is about half way through writing. Research is about 80% completed.) This will have to be a 2012-2013 book. The new history of Mount Mica (I have a great title to be revealed later; over 400 pages written so far!) and the companion book Minerals of Oxford County - Eastern District is also scheduled for 2012-2013. The remaining books in the sequence George Howe: Founder of the Boy Scouts and the Campfire Girls: Norway, Maine (400 pages of text so far) and Minerals of Oxford County: Southern District will be finished in 2013-2014. (George Howe is the man who named Watermelon Tourmaline.)
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In the immortal words of Robert Frost: "Miles to go before I sleep".

Mineral Book Advertising Prospectus

Mineral collectors and mineral dealers are always looking for ways to showcase their specimens to the mineral public. One way to achieve this promotion is through illustrated articles in magazines and books. Unfortunately, the limited scope of most such publications means that only a few specimens qualify for any particular article/book. It is increasingly apparent that there is a need for a venue to promote mineral specimens in a general format. This prospectus proposes to offer the opportunity to have full-color, full-page images of minerals with a comprehensive description published in a hard cover sewn-binding book. The working title is: Nature’s Garden of Crystals. Subscriptions for submitting images of one’s choice to this book are $3,500. Each subscriber could submit  15 images of their choice, ranging from highly competitive display specimens to unusual locality minerals or any other mineral/gem photos they wish. The final number of images that can be accommodated per subscription depends on the actual production costs, but a double subscription would be entitled to twice the number of photographs of their specimens in the book. Each subscriber would receive 50 copies of the book at no extra cost. The main requirements are that the images would be large enough in size to support 350 dpi printing, be sharply in focus, photographed on appropriate featureless backgrounds (gray, black, or white preferred), etc. A custom designed specimen label will be printed to accompany every illustrated specimen.

The proposed book will be hard-bound with laminated cover. It will have full-color interior, glossy paper, and will be about 120-140 pages in length. The captions will be written by me and will summarize the interesting features of the specimen, including short comments about the history and occurrence of the specimen. The quality of the printing will be equal to the 2009 book, Maine Feldspar, Families, and Feuds which has been favorably reviewed. (Q.V. reviews blog)

The book will be printed and available before the Munich Mineral Show of October, 2010.

Van King has been a life-long mineral collector and author. His first publication was in 1967 and since that time he has written, co-authored, or edited 18 books (http://mainefeldspar.blogspot.com/2009/12/books-by-vandall-t-king.html) and over 225 articles. His most recent book is Maine Feldspar, Families, and Feuds, although Collectors' Guide to Granite Pegmatites will be out in late summer 2010. Van has geology degrees from the University of Maine and the State University of New York with specialties in mineralogy and geochemistry. Although he is currently a consulting mineralogist, he started his professional career as the 7th mineralogist for Ward’s Natural Science Establishment in Rochester, New York, succeeding Henry A. Ward and George Letchworth English. He is currently a management level editor for the internet mineral database, Mindat.

Books by, co-authored by, ________________or edited by Vandall T. King

1973  Donald Morrison, Joan Acord, William Acord, Rupert Aldrich, Gordon Hewes, Terry Hewes, Donald L. Joyner, Vandall T. King, Deborah Morrison, Stanley I. Perham, Ralph Spencer, Sarah Spencer, Katie Tamminen, Nestor Tamminen, Guidebook I to Mineral Collecting in the Maine Pegmatite Belt, Federation of Maine Mineral and Gem Clubs, pp. 22 (reprinted 1974, 1976, 1979, 1983).

1975 King, Vandall T. and Bruce Nelson, Guidebook to Geologic and Beach Features of the Rachel Carson Salt Pond Area, New Harbor, Maine, Maine Sea Grant Bulletin #10, pp. 16.

1980 Distribution of Alkali and Alkaline-Earth Elements in a Newry, Maine Pegmatite, privately published, Rochester, New York, pp. 131.

1988 (Woodrow B. Thompson, Donald L. Joyner, Raymond G. Woodman, and King, Vandall T.) A Collector's Guidebook to Maine Minerals, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine, pp. 110.

1989 (Currier, Rock Henry and King, Vandall T.) The World's Most Incredible Mineral Specimens, Jewel Tunnel Press, Arcadia, California, pp. 73.

1991 (Woodrow B. Thompson, Donald L. Joyner, Raymond G. Woodman, and King, Vandall T.) A Collector's Guidebook to Maine Minerals, second edition, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine, pp. 104.

1993 Critical [Mineral] Areas Program. Preliminary Report to Eastern Federation of Mineralogical and Lapidary Societies, Rochester Academy of Science, Rochester, NY, pp. 42.

1995 (King, Vandall T. and Eugene E. Foord) Mineralogy of Maine, volume 1, Descriptive Mineralogy, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine, pp. 418 + 88 plates [1994 on title page].

1997 (Gaines, Richard, Catherine Skinner, Eugene Foord, Abraham Rosensweig; Brian Mason, and
Vandall T. King), Dana's New Mineralogy [System], eighth edition, Wiley Interscience, NY, NY, pp. 1819.

1998 (Woodrow B. Thompson, Donald L. Joyner, Raymond G. Woodman, and Vandall T. King) A Collector's Guidebook to Maine Minerals, third edition, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine.

2000 Mineralogy of Maine, volume 2, Mining History, Gems, and Geology, Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine, pp. 524.

2002 Charles Palache Gossan Minerals Lecture audio book, 2 CD set, Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ.

2002 Charles Palache Gossan Minerals ebook, CD, Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ.

2003 (Vandall King and Linda Morgan) Rochester Prevention and Resilience Project, Unity Health System, Rochester, NY, ebook CD.

2005 (Contributing Editor: Vandall T. King), Minerals and Their Localities, Granite Press, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 807.

2009 Maine Feldspar, Families, and Feuds, New England Historical Publications, Boston, MA, pp 300. (See cover illustration on left margin. Click for larger size image.)

2010 Collector's Guide to Granite Pegmatites, Schiffer Press.

2011 Nature's Garden of Crystals.

2012 Minerals of Oxford County, Maine - Western Section.


2013 Minerals After Dark. (in progress).


2013 Flowers of the Mineral Kingdom (in progress).

The Origin of the Rose Quartz Monument
By Van King

Rose quartz monuments are not rare. Scotts Rose Quartz Quarry in Custer, South Dakota gets orders for rose quartz on a frequent enough basis that they set aside any suitable monument size blocks for that purpose during their mining operations and have done so since the 1920’s. My interest in the beautiful rose quartz monument in Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, NY is that it isn’t from South Dakota, but is from Albany, Maine.

Only by 2002 has there been an explanation for rose quartz’s wonderful color. The mineral has sub-microscopic particles of a reddish purple to a bluish purple mineral called dumortierite. That mineral occurs in such minute quantities that proving what the mineral actually was had to wait for modern technology to answer the question. Because the color is due to particles included in the host quartz, even the most transparent pieces of rose quartz have a “sleepy” haze and most pieces are really cloudy pink. Rose quartz may be found with a mineral that is commonlyl used in making the finest porcelain glaze. That mineral is called feldspar. Such was the origin of this block. The monument stone is about 4.5 x 3 x 2 feet and calculates to have a weight of about 4500 pounds.

The rose quartz monument marks the resting place of Julius J. Andersen [1879-September 25, 1954] and Leona M. Andersen [1879-February 1, 1938]. From Julius’ obituary in the Democrat and Chronicle, we learn only the highlights of whom the Andersens were. Julius had emigrated from Germany in 1893 and was a highly respected tailor in Rochester. Both he and Leona were active in their church, including its Missionary Society. Julius was a member of the Masons, Fireman’s Benevolent Society, and the Rochester Chamber of Commerce.

The author became interested in discovering the current location of this rose quartz monument as part of researching the history of feldspar mining in Oxford County, Maine and the Bumpus Quarry of Albany, in particular. The Bumpus Quarry is a small quarry that has had a turbulent history at several levels. That quarry was leased by Harry Bumpus from his wife’s brother and sister, Allan and Sybil Cummings, on June 1, 1927. Unfortunately, Sybil died about three weeks after the lease date, leaving no last will and testament. After a mourning period, the quarry started operations in September of that year, but the process of probate lasted four years and Sybil’s heirs were anxious to get their share of the mining profits. Rose quartz had been found almost immediately in the quarry, but it initially did not have appreciable value. The quarry should have yielded about $1000 profit per year for its feldspar output, but there was a complication. An enormous quantity of beryl crystals was soon discovered and there was great fanfare about the beryl crystals being "world record" size, etc. The weight of the beryl sold from the quarry was about 100 tons and the heirs hoped to get their share of the royalties from that mineral, also, but a family feud and other issues prevented disbursement of funds. Finally, a comment in Business Week magazine in 1930 sent the probate issue to court: the article said that a beryl quarry is “better than owning an oil well”. During the Depression the heirs were very eager to get their share of their “oil well”, especially as just $1,000 was then a goodly fraction of two year’s wages for a laborer. Unfortunately, as is usually the case, expectations had been raised to unsupportable levels and the family feud eventually resulted in the heirs getting about $175 each, but the feud resulted in the loss of love and family forever. Rose quartz continued to be produced by the Bumpus Quarry, whenever mining was active, and it eventually was the large share of income for a miner and gift shop owner, Stanley I. Perham [June 2, 1907 – December 1, 1973].

Sometime in 1950, Julius ordered his rose quartz monument from Perham’s Maine Mineral Store located in West Paris, Maine. Leone Andersen had died twelve years earlier and she may or may not have already had a marker for her plot. Julius’ motivation to acquire a rose quartz monument for himself and his wife is unknown. Monuments made of South Dakota rose quartz were well-enough known, but rose quartz from Maine was rarely fashioned into grave markers of any kind. One must imagine that Julius, and perhaps Leona, had been tourists in Maine and had visited Perham’s store where he/they became familiar with rose quartz’s beauty. The personal visit is the only reason which seems adequate to have inspired Julius to pick the rare Maine rose quartz for his monument.

The Oxford County, Maine newspaper, Advertiser Democrat, published a photo of the raw rose quartz block as it was being crated for shipment to Rochester on October 27, 1950. At the time of shipment, the block reportedly weighed about 5,000 pounds and was claimed as a record size block of rose quartz for any locality east of the Mississippi River. It was also revealed that the block was destined for use as a monument in “New York”. It may be surmised that the block was a special order and that Stan Perham had directed the excavation of the block. During the time period, the Cold War between the USA and Russia was escalating and the Federal Government was paying high premiums for beryl by the ton. Beryl was the chief ore of beryllium which was essential to initiating the nuclear reaction resulting in so-called nuclear bombs. The Bumpus Quarry, which had spawned a feud over its beryl production, was again producing beryl for the Strategic Minerals Stockpile in 1950. It was also producing rose quartz as a by-product.

Unfortunately, the ravages of weather have not been kind to the rose quartz monument in Rochester. Hidden cracks have been affected by the frost and ice and cracks have widened so that the monument is now in fragile condition.

The above article also appeared in edited form in the Epitaph, the newsletter of the Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery (Rochester, NY), volume 29, #1, Winter/Spring 2009, p. 1-2.

Maine Feldspar Families and Feuds Reviews

Reviews of Maine Feldspar, Families, and Feuds:


“Van King’s new book is by far the most detailed treatment of western Maine’s pegmatite mining history. It features in-depth research on the families that worked the mines and their colorful personalities. The book is exceptionally well illustrated with modern and old-time photographs that have never been published elsewhere. It’s a labor of love that required many years of effort!” – Woodrow Thompson, Maine Geological Survey

"This marvelous book is a large and detailed collection of historical works involving Oxford County, Maine: its minerals, miners and its mining stories. It is certainly the first feature-length history of a granite pegmatite mining district, filled with research that documents and brings to life the characters (some shining knights some scoundrels) and places that formed Maine's mining legacy." - Mineral News

"I don't think I have read a stranger, more worthy volume than Maine Feldspar, Families & Feuds: Oxford County Mining History. ... The book is beautifully illustrated with images that are chosen for their rarity and quality. ... A key element of the book concerns chapters 9 through 14, written by other writers. These wonderful essay-chapters are chock-a-block with genealogical, ethnic, economic and social information that can be found nowhere else." - Portland Press Herald.

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“A great read!” – Bob Ritchie, Maine Mineralogical Symposium

“This is really wonderful! You certainly did your homework!” – Ben Conant, Paris Cape Historical Society.

“Thirty years of historical research in Oxford County and across the world, found its way into this book” – Terry Karkos, Lewiston Sun Journal.

“Nobody else could have written this book!” – Mary McFadden, Maine naturalist.

“There’s so much detail!” – Terry Szenics, international professional miner