PERSONAL GENESIS PUBLISHING - PRWeb Press Release Account Feed http://www.rsspad.com/rss2a/101054.xml PERSONAL GENESIS PUBLISHING - Press Releases en xml@emediawire.com xml@emediawire.com 30 'History Channel Magazine' Highlights Ron Horne's 'Forgotten Faces - A Window Into Our Immigrant Past' as First Book on its Historically Important Subject http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/11/prweb483125.htm The 2006 November-December issue of the "History Channel Magazine" unveils a full two-page article, written by author Lisa Montanarelli ("Strange But True San Francisco: Tales of the City" by the Bay ((Globe Pequot 2005)), documenting the ground-breaking nature of Ron Horne's distinctive photo-history on twentieth century immigration in America "Forgotten Faces - A Window Into Our Immigrant Past". The first book ever published on its subject matter, "Forgotten Faces" reveals an important but neglected art form preserving historically significant artifacts, photo-ceramic memorial portraits on tombstones from 1900 --1945. First published in June, 2004, "Forgotten Faces" has graced the cover of "Publisher's Weekly", was cited and quoted in "U.S. News & World Report", featured in the "San Francisco Chronicle's" Bay Area Centerpiece, first introduced in Art and Antiques Magazine and subsequently received over a dozen favorable reviews denoting "an outstanding visual and written survey of a unique art and memorial form which should not be missed" (Midwest Book Review 3/06). (PRWeb Nov 26, 2006)

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]]> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/11/prweb483125.htm Ron Horne’s Book, Forgotten Faces, Receives National Recognition – on the Cover of Publishers Weekly, Cited in U.S. News & World Report and Recommended by About.com http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/03/prweb223333.htm Ron Horne’s book “Forgotten Faces — A Window Into Our Immigrant Past” was selected by the Publishers Marketing Association to share the cover of the March 7th edition of “Publishers Weekly”. Two weeks later Mr. Horne was quoted in the April 4th edition of “U.S. News & World Report” (published on March 28th) on the unique qualities of memorial portraits they relate to the exhibit “Faces of the Fallen” which displays portraits of U.S. service men and women who have died in the Iraq war. In March, “Forgotten Faces” was also “recommended reading” for “most of us who claim U.S. citizenship” by About.com. (PRWeb Mar 31, 2005)

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]]> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/03/prweb223333.htm Ron Horne’s New Book on America’s Vanishing Immigrant Art, “Forgotten Faces – A Window Into Our Immigrant Past” is Available from Wal-Mart Online – Wal-Mart.com. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/11/prweb178492.htm Previously available online only from Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com, “Forgotten Faces” is now offered online by the nation’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart. According to the book’s publisher, Personal Genesis Publishing based in San Francisco, California, the inclusion of “Forgotten Faces” on Wal-mart’s online book listing emphasizes the steady growth in sales of “Forgotten Faces” since it publication of June of 2004. (PRWeb Nov 16, 2004)

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]]> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/11/prweb178492.htm Personal Genesis Publishing Announces a New Business Partnership with Baker & Taylor, Inc to Distribute Ron Horne’s New Book "Forgotten Faces – A Window Into Our Immigrant Past" http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/11/prweb177555.htm Personal Genesis Publishing announced a new distribution agreement with industry leader and worldwide distributor of books, Baker & Taylor, Inc to distribute Ron Horne’s first-of-its-kind publication – “Forgotten Faces”. This unique book is the first to explore and explain the artistic merit and historical importance of photo-ceramic memorial portraits on tombstones as an entirely original photo-history of American immigration. The first in a series titled “Forgotten Faces – America’s Lost History”, “A Window Into Our Immigrant Past” presents 350 never-before-published, well preserved memorial portraits of American Immigrants from 1900-1945. (PRWeb Nov 12, 2004)

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]]> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/11/prweb177555.htm Personal Genesis Publishing and Ron Horne, Author of “Forgotten Faces – A Window Into Our Immigrant Past” Have Agreed to a New Book Series Titled “Forgotten Faces – America’s Lost History” http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/09/prweb160252.htm The new series of photo-essays will explore photo-ceramic memorial portraits from twenty U.S. cities beginning with Chicago, New York, Boston, Atlanta and Philadelphia. It will also include Paris, Rome and Barcelona for its European coverage. (PRWeb Sep 22, 2004)

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]]> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/09/prweb160252.htm "Forgotten Faces" Becomes the First Book to Present and Preserve Lost American History and Precious Immigrant Art Vanishing from our Country's Heritage and in Danger of Being Lost Forever. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/07/prweb140602.htm Ron Horne's new book, "Forgotten Faces – A Window Into Our Immigrant Past" reveals for the first time, rare photographs from the turn of the 20th century still perfectly preserved despite being outdoors for almost a century. Overlooked by historians and artists alike, enameled photo-ceramic memorial portraits mounted on tombstones present a stunningly beautiful and uniquely engaging art form rich in American immigrant history. Yet this valued treasure of our nation's legacy is disappearing due to neglect and vandalism before it can be researched, documented and preserved. (PRWeb Jul 13, 2004)

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