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Albion Authors Plan Fire Photo Book
Two Albion authors are going local again for their newest
book, and they’re looking for some photographic help.
Mark and Emily Hunter want to collect as many photographs as
they can relating to the Albion Volunteer Fire Department for a new book, which
they hope to have out this summer. So far untitled, it will be almost entirely
pictures.
The Hunters previously collaborated on a history of the AFD, Smoky
Days and Sleepless Nights: A Century Or So With the Albion Fire Department.
But that book, about the department’s history, had relatively few illustrations.
Mark Hunter described their new book as being a balance between Smoky Days and Sleepless Nights and
their other local history book, Images of
America: Albion and Noble County. The latter, released by Arcadia
Publishing, was also almost entirely pictures.
The two also co-wrote a humor book with a wider historical
focus, Hoosier Hysterical: How the West
Became the Midwest Without Moving At All.
Mark, who’s on Amazon and various social media sites as Mark
R Hunter, has been a volunteer Albion firefighter for thirty-eight years. “Albion and Noble County was a load of
hard work,” he says. “But it was also great, because we searched long and hard
for historical pictures, and got a lot of great ones loaned and donated to us.
That got me thinking.”
Now Mark and Emily and searching for
any photos, of any age, relating to the AFD—even remotely. “Personal stuff kept
me from getting as involved as I’d like with the fire department in recent
years, so I wanted to do something,” Mark says. What kind of pictures are they
searching for? “Fires; fire trucks; firefighters; firefighter families;
firehouses; fire history; fire dogs—whatever. The older the better, but modern
is fine.”
They’re asking
anyone with fire related photos involving Albion in any way—or video, if screen
caps could be made from it—to loan them long enough for Emily to scan a copy
for the book. The donators will get credit, as will the original photographers,
if their identity is known. In addition, half the proceeds from sales of the
book will go to the Albion Fire Department’s training and equipment fund. The
Hunters are publishing independently, so the other half will go toward actually
designing, producing, advertising, and printing the book.
All the proceeds
of their previous AFD book, Smoky Days
and Sleepless Nights, go to the AFD. The Hunters also donate half of Mark’s
young adult novel, The No-Campfire Girls,
to an organization working to support Emily’s former Missouri Girl Scout
facility, Camp Latonka.
“We're especially
interested in former members”, Mark adds, “since it's awfully hard to fight fires
without firefighters. I should stress that I mean Albion, Indiana.
Although, come to think of it, it would be kind of cool to have a section on
Albion firehouses from across the country.”
Mark and Emily can
be contacted on their website contact form at www.markrhunter.com, or through any of their
social media, or--believe it or not--their number's actually in the phone book.
Mark R Hunter is also the author of four romantic comedies: Coming Attractions, Radio Red, Storm Chaser
and its sequel, The Notorious Ian Grant,
as well as a related story collection, Storm
Chaser Shorts. In addition, he collaborated with Emily, on a collection of
his humor columns, Slightly Off the Mark.
His short works appeared in the anthologies My
Funny Valentine, Strange Portals: Ink
Slingers’ Fantasy/Horror Anthology, and The
Legend of Ol' Man Wickleberry (and His Demise).
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