Our Town in Our Times

 

Nina Tisara, director of Living Legends of Alexandria, announced that History Press will publish six years of Living Legend feature stories and photographs under the working title “Our Town in Our Times.”  Publication is expected in January 2014. 

 

 Living Legends of Alexandria is an ongoing not-for-profit project to identify, honor and chronicle people making current history in Alexandria.  It also offers programs to encourage children and youth to document the histories of family members and create one-of-a-kind illustrated books. 

“To our our knowledge,” said Tisara, “Living Legends is the only program that has a system for identifying the people doing extraordinary things to benefit the city and to chronicle them in a way that is easily retrievable.  Currently the annual Living Legend catalogs are collected by the Alexandria Library, the Library of Virginia in Richmond and are registered at the U.S. Library Congress.  The feature stories are carried by printed monthly by four media partners.  Publication by History Press further validates the importance of this program to the people of Alexandria.”

Since starting in 2004, History Press has published nearly two thousand local and regional history titles from coast to coast.  Its mission is to preserve and enrich community by empowering history enthusiasts to write local stories for local audiences. 

Living Legends is now accepting nominations for the Legends of 2014.    Nomination information is available on-line at www.AlexandriaLegends.com or by calling Nina Tisara at 703-625-8191.

The deadline for nominations is October 15.