New book features regional history
Focuses on historical images from
Manzanita, Nehalem and Wheeler
BY MALLORY GRUBEN
‘Images of America: Manzanita,
Nehalem and Wheeler’
Neah-Kah-Nie resident Mark Beach
By Mark Beach
has made a hobby of collecting old photos
since retiring from a long academic career
Available to purchase at arcadiapublishing.com
in history.
His collection contains thousands
of images from his current home in the
write a book,’” Beach said. “I really didn’t
Nehalem Bay area.
have any intention to.”
A professional historian and longtime
That is, until he learned about Arcadia
community volunteer, Beach uses his photo Publishing and its “perfect recipe” for pho-
collection to teach local history classes at
tographic history books. The national pub-
the Pine Grove Community House. In mid- lication company partners with local his-
March he shared a sampling of his collec-
torians to release books about local and
tion in his new book, “Images of America:
regional history.
Manzanita, Nehalem and Wheeler.”
Beach’s book about Manzanita,
“Of course, as it happens when you
Nehalem and Wheeler includes more than
teach a class, people started asking me, ‘Oh
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gosh Mark, well when are you going to
Nehalem River Ranch is one of many photographed spots in Mark Beach’s book.
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