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This book is a celebration of the history of Hampton Roads and the lower Tidewater region of the Chesapeake Bay. It showcases 525 brilliant color photos, vintage postcards, and historic memorabilia of the area. towns from the mouth of the bay, including Cape Charles and Cape Henry, to Hampton Roads. Newport News is known for shipbuilding, Hampton for seafood, Suffolk for peanuts, Portsmouth for its military shipyard, and Norfolk for its mighty naval base, and the resorts of Buckroe Beach and Ocean View are playgrounds for them all.

The steamboat St. Johns has just brought you down the Potomac from Washington. The boardwalk is only steps away. Fun awaits Enjoy your stay Colonial Beach, Virginia, was the premier summer resort on the Potomac River, attracting visitors from Virginia, Washington D.C., and Maryland by the thousands. Discover how Colonial Beach got its start and learn its exciting and colorful history, from bathing belles to slot machines. Over 280 vintage postcard views, from 1905 to the 1960s, guide you back to an earlier time at the beach and around town. Included are arriving steamboats, the boardwalk,...

The 220 beautiful postcards provide a nostalgic look at the Virginia Beach of yesterday, while 89 vibrant, color photos show the town today. Learn how Virginia Beach got its start and see the early boardwalk. Take a grand tour chronicling the changes, from its beginnings in 1878, when only the Seatack Lifesaving Station inhabited the shore, to the present day. View the Norwegian Lady statue of yesteryear and today, stroll the boardwalk through the decades, and compare today's Coast Guard Station to the early Seatack station. Also provided is a short history of postcards and their values. This...

Witness the beauty and allure of Chincoteague, Virginia's largest inhabited island in 167 beautiful, modern color photos and 58 vintage postcards. Featured are the Island Roxy Theater, Miss Molly's Inn, the Beebe Ranch, the Misty of Chincoteague statue, and the Assateague lighthouse. Also portrayed are the world-famous and much-loved ponies, native to the islands, that are captured during the annual pony swim from Assateague to Chincoteague and auctioned. The well researched and informative text provides an engaging history of Chincoteague and its ponies, told with the easy flair and style of...

This compilation of works by the Grand Lodge of Colorado contains a discussion by Illustrious Brother James T. Tresner on symbolism and symbolic language, Gnosticism is covered by Brother Timothy Hogan the famed author of Alchemical Keys to Masonic Ritual, and discussion of music and Masonry by the musician for Enlightenment Lodge 198 in Colorado.