2015 year in preview: City history book to be published

A new Homewood pictorial history book will be released around Christmas 2015.

Jake Collins, an eighth-grade history teacher at Homewood Middle School, and Martha Wurtele will be co-authoring the project. Collins leads his students in a Homewood History Hunt, where they find historical places using Collins’ clues and post pictures of them to social media.

The book will be part of Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series, which has recently released books about neighboring Vestavia Hills, Mountain Brook and Hoover.

Collins asks that anyone with photos of Homewood prior to the 1980s contact him at mrjakecollins@gmail.com if they are willing to share the images. 

For more information on Homewood History Hunt, visit homewoodhistoryhunt.blogspot.com.