Jodie Schroeder talks to a tour group at 518 Keystone during Sunday’s 18th Annual House Walk sponsored by The Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest, May 1, 2022.

Locals and visitors to Nevada County are encouraged to tour the North Star House, its heritage garden, and 14 acres of manicured grounds just a mile south of historic downtown Grass Valley. Located at ...

The Preservation and History Walk includes live music by Major Handy and Carol Fran, refreshments, antique cars and historic tours at the William Brandt House from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

And each place or house that I shoot, I go back and research. And there’s so much history there. Your book shows a side of the Hamptons that is older, charming and decidedly down to earth.

All that research and history was why Schiffer, a nonfiction publishing house in Atglen, Pa., with more than 5,000 titles currently in print, decided to publish the book.