Historic photos being collected for new book

A new Homewood pictorial history book will be published next year, and its authors are looking for photos to add to the book’s collection. 

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. 

On Saturday, Nov. 22, he will be at the Homewood Public Library from 9 a.m. to noon scanning photos to be considered for the book. 

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