Smartsville and Timbuctoo: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
Autor Kathleen Smith, Lane Parkeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2008
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780738556062
ISBN-10: 0738556068
Pagini: 127
Dimensiuni: 165 x 236 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Seria Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
ISBN-10: 0738556068
Pagini: 127
Dimensiuni: 165 x 236 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Seria Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
Descriere
Smartsville and Timbuctoo (California State Landmarks Nos. 321 and 320) are essentially one place with two names. As worked-out claims and floods forced placer forty-niners up from the sandbars into the hills above the Yuba River, and as word spread around the world about gold in the California hills, towns and communities formed. The Smartsville and Timbuctoo area was once the most populated place in eastern Yuba County. Black Bart, Jim athe Timbuctoo Terrora Webster, and other desperadoes haunted the local roads. Eventually fires, worked-out diggings, and the Sawyer Decision succeeded in driving out all but the most dedicated (and in some cases eccentric) residents. Neither town, though, is ready yet for the dustbin of history: the population might once again explodeathis time not with gold seekers but with long-distance commuters, turning the former boomtowns into future bedroom communities.
Recenzii
Title: The making of a local history book
Author: John Hollis
Publisher: Appeal-Democrat
Date: 12/7/2008
Just because it's a labor of love doesn't mean it isn't a lot of work.
Neither Lane Parker nor Kathy Smith were authors. Lane is a freelance editor and Kathy is a baker. Neither of them lives near Smartsville or even Yuba County. What they have in common is a love of research and a deep interest in history.
"I was researching my family history and wanting more information about the towns that my great-great-grandparents settled in," Smith said.
Parker's reasons were a little different: "Even though I don't have any family there, one of my great-grandmothers had gone through there in the 1950s on a road trip. She wrote in her travel diary about the apricot and peach orchards when they went through Grass Valley, then she wrote about Timbuctoo of Mark Twain fame.
"I'd never heard of Timbuctoo, so I thought it'd be neat to see. It was years later that I went looking for the town and I couldn't find it," Parker said. "That just made me more motivated. Perhaps if I'd found it that day, I probably never would have started researching it."
Each had their own reasons, but both had one common resource: Kathy Sedler and her Yuba Roots Web site. They turned to her because she compiles information on Yuba County vital statistics.
"In February last year, (Sedler) told me about this woman in Sacramento who's researching the same towns," Parker explained.
"The way (Sedler) presented it to me was that Kathy was researching Smartsville," Parker said. "I thought, 'That's great.' So we e-mailed back and forth about where we were in ourresearch, what we knew and what we had."
"We actually met the first time at the California State Library (in February 2007) when we started to put the book proposal together," Parker said.
"When the Arcadia book was coming out about Marysville, I thought someone there would be interested, because they do things in districts," Parker said.
Arcadia Publishing is a leading publisher of local history in the United States. It has applied state-of-the-art technology to create historical publications about local niches.
"I called up their West Coast editor and I proposed Timbuctoo, but I almost talked myself out of the job because I said nobody lives there," he said. "So I suggested, 'How about Smartsville and Timbuctoo?' That made more sense to (the editor). I told her that I didn't know much about Smartsville, but there's another person I know who does."
"Then the editor got back to me and asked if we could do a proposal," said Parker.
They had very little time because the proposal was due in late March.
"We had to provide some photos and captions to Arcadia," Smith said. "Then we had to fill out a questionnaire about the area and the potential buyers to find out what the market would be."
"Then, in a day or two, we heard back with the approval," Parker said.
It was going to be a daunting chore.
"Their time frame for turnaround was really fast. They wanted us to do it in four months, but we got an extension," Smith said.
Parker said that they had roughly eight months to complete the book.
Because Smith lives in Sacramento and Parker lives in San Francisco, phone and travel costs added up.
"Maybe if welived here in town it would be different," Parker explained. "It would have been a lot easier and a lot less expensive. That was when gas was up around $5 a gallon."
But they both said it was worth it. "This is a labor of love. We're never going to get paid for the expense of doing this," Smith explained.
Everything was on the authors' shoulders a the research, the photos and illustrations, the writing.
"One thing that doesn't get talked about a lot is that Arcadia a and they're not the only ones a doesn't pay advances or any expenses. So we had to pay everything out of pocket and wait to get paid from the royalties."
The royalties were not what they expected.
"When we were looking at the royalties, we thought we were getting 8 percent of the retail price ($19.99), but what we were really getting was 8 percent a or 4 percent each a of the wholesale price, which could vary, depending on Arcadia's contract with each buyer," Smith said.
That didn't stop them from doing the best job possible.
"In general, we worked pretty well together. It was really fun because of the passion we each had for the subject," Parker said. "We each had different ideas about how to approach it, and like any collaboration we had to compromise on some things."
During those eight months, Smith and Parker not only had to lay out the book, they also had to find the pictures, conduct more interviews, write the captions, all while working with the Arcadia editors scattered around the country.
"One problem with us coming from outside the area was that we were strangers. We needed people to vouch for us," Parker said. "So while other people would have beenworking on the book, we were still doing outreach. Up in Smartsville we held a couple of meetings so they could meet us and get to know us."
"We were really open about what we were doing. We told them we wouldn't take the photographs from them, that we'd come to their houses and scan the photos there, so they'd never leave their hands," Smith said. "While some people were a little hesitant, others opened up their houses to us, letting me sit at their kitchen table for days scanning pictures."
Arcadia, which has published more than 5,000 titles since its establishment in 1993 including the recently published "Marysville," has a set way of doing things. Parker said all their books are 128 pages long, all chapters begin on a right-side (odd-numbered) page, there are no more than two photos per page, and the photos must meet quality and size requirements.
"One of the difficulties of writing this book was, after we found all these stories and information that needed to be told, we could only use the information if we had a photograph to go with it," Parker said. "Everything we wrote for the book had to be basically a caption."
Which meant they had to get as much information into the captions for the 197 images (photos, illustrations and maps) in the book that they could, while staying within Arcadia's word limit requirement.
"When we finished the book, we found some of the pictures we had been pounding our heads against the wall trying to find. We kept telling everyone that we didn't want to find stuff afterward because we can't use it," Smith said.
The book was published in June this year, and Parker and Smith are looking to the future.
"While we were together, we started thinking what else we could do to collaborate using the photos and information we couldn't put in the book," Parker said. "We started a Web site to not only promote the book, but also for the Timbuctoo &Smartsville Project. We're hoping to do some other things like have the local people put in genealogies so we can put it in a database where people can share their histories with their families after they're gone."
"The research continues, but not just for ourselves. We want to find ways to put the information out where others can find and use it," he said.
Author: John Hollis
Publisher: Appeal-Democrat
Date: 12/7/2008
Just because it's a labor of love doesn't mean it isn't a lot of work.
Neither Lane Parker nor Kathy Smith were authors. Lane is a freelance editor and Kathy is a baker. Neither of them lives near Smartsville or even Yuba County. What they have in common is a love of research and a deep interest in history.
"I was researching my family history and wanting more information about the towns that my great-great-grandparents settled in," Smith said.
Parker's reasons were a little different: "Even though I don't have any family there, one of my great-grandmothers had gone through there in the 1950s on a road trip. She wrote in her travel diary about the apricot and peach orchards when they went through Grass Valley, then she wrote about Timbuctoo of Mark Twain fame.
"I'd never heard of Timbuctoo, so I thought it'd be neat to see. It was years later that I went looking for the town and I couldn't find it," Parker said. "That just made me more motivated. Perhaps if I'd found it that day, I probably never would have started researching it."
Each had their own reasons, but both had one common resource: Kathy Sedler and her Yuba Roots Web site. They turned to her because she compiles information on Yuba County vital statistics.
"In February last year, (Sedler) told me about this woman in Sacramento who's researching the same towns," Parker explained.
"The way (Sedler) presented it to me was that Kathy was researching Smartsville," Parker said. "I thought, 'That's great.' So we e-mailed back and forth about where we were in ourresearch, what we knew and what we had."
"We actually met the first time at the California State Library (in February 2007) when we started to put the book proposal together," Parker said.
"When the Arcadia book was coming out about Marysville, I thought someone there would be interested, because they do things in districts," Parker said.
Arcadia Publishing is a leading publisher of local history in the United States. It has applied state-of-the-art technology to create historical publications about local niches.
"I called up their West Coast editor and I proposed Timbuctoo, but I almost talked myself out of the job because I said nobody lives there," he said. "So I suggested, 'How about Smartsville and Timbuctoo?' That made more sense to (the editor). I told her that I didn't know much about Smartsville, but there's another person I know who does."
"Then the editor got back to me and asked if we could do a proposal," said Parker.
They had very little time because the proposal was due in late March.
"We had to provide some photos and captions to Arcadia," Smith said. "Then we had to fill out a questionnaire about the area and the potential buyers to find out what the market would be."
"Then, in a day or two, we heard back with the approval," Parker said.
It was going to be a daunting chore.
"Their time frame for turnaround was really fast. They wanted us to do it in four months, but we got an extension," Smith said.
Parker said that they had roughly eight months to complete the book.
Because Smith lives in Sacramento and Parker lives in San Francisco, phone and travel costs added up.
"Maybe if welived here in town it would be different," Parker explained. "It would have been a lot easier and a lot less expensive. That was when gas was up around $5 a gallon."
But they both said it was worth it. "This is a labor of love. We're never going to get paid for the expense of doing this," Smith explained.
Everything was on the authors' shoulders a the research, the photos and illustrations, the writing.
"One thing that doesn't get talked about a lot is that Arcadia a and they're not the only ones a doesn't pay advances or any expenses. So we had to pay everything out of pocket and wait to get paid from the royalties."
The royalties were not what they expected.
"When we were looking at the royalties, we thought we were getting 8 percent of the retail price ($19.99), but what we were really getting was 8 percent a or 4 percent each a of the wholesale price, which could vary, depending on Arcadia's contract with each buyer," Smith said.
That didn't stop them from doing the best job possible.
"In general, we worked pretty well together. It was really fun because of the passion we each had for the subject," Parker said. "We each had different ideas about how to approach it, and like any collaboration we had to compromise on some things."
During those eight months, Smith and Parker not only had to lay out the book, they also had to find the pictures, conduct more interviews, write the captions, all while working with the Arcadia editors scattered around the country.
"One problem with us coming from outside the area was that we were strangers. We needed people to vouch for us," Parker said. "So while other people would have beenworking on the book, we were still doing outreach. Up in Smartsville we held a couple of meetings so they could meet us and get to know us."
"We were really open about what we were doing. We told them we wouldn't take the photographs from them, that we'd come to their houses and scan the photos there, so they'd never leave their hands," Smith said. "While some people were a little hesitant, others opened up their houses to us, letting me sit at their kitchen table for days scanning pictures."
Arcadia, which has published more than 5,000 titles since its establishment in 1993 including the recently published "Marysville," has a set way of doing things. Parker said all their books are 128 pages long, all chapters begin on a right-side (odd-numbered) page, there are no more than two photos per page, and the photos must meet quality and size requirements.
"One of the difficulties of writing this book was, after we found all these stories and information that needed to be told, we could only use the information if we had a photograph to go with it," Parker said. "Everything we wrote for the book had to be basically a caption."
Which meant they had to get as much information into the captions for the 197 images (photos, illustrations and maps) in the book that they could, while staying within Arcadia's word limit requirement.
"When we finished the book, we found some of the pictures we had been pounding our heads against the wall trying to find. We kept telling everyone that we didn't want to find stuff afterward because we can't use it," Smith said.
The book was published in June this year, and Parker and Smith are looking to the future.
"While we were together, we started thinking what else we could do to collaborate using the photos and information we couldn't put in the book," Parker said. "We started a Web site to not only promote the book, but also for the Timbuctoo &Smartsville Project. We're hoping to do some other things like have the local people put in genealogies so we can put it in a database where people can share their histories with their families after they're gone."
"The research continues, but not just for ourselves. We want to find ways to put the information out where others can find and use it," he said.
Notă biografică
Authors Kathleen Smith and Lane Parker have collected images and stories from numerous Northern California libraries, museums, archives, and from local residents and historians to reconstruct the past of this unique place. Smith has genealogical ties to Smartsville and Timbuctoo. Parker has been researching Timbuctoo since 2005.