The narrative captures the political journey of Combs, detailing his rise from an Eastern Kentucky background to a prominent jurist and progressive leader. Through his own reflections and insights from around sixty individuals who experienced this journey with him, the book offers a rich oral history that highlights Combs' impact on politics and society. It is part of the Kentucky Remembered series, emphasizing the importance of personal stories in understanding regional history.
The Grenville Province, covering much of upstate New York, southeastern Ontario, and southern Québec, has been the source of many amazing mineral specimens. Its crystalline rocks are more than a billion years old, and unlike most mineralogical heritage sites, new discoveries are the rule rather than the exception.The province also contains deposits of commercially important minerals such as iron, zinc, talc, garnet, apatite, and mica. More than 400 photographs highlight specimens from the world-renowned collections of the Canadian Museum of Nature, the New York State Museum, and selected private collections. This pleasurable journey includes sections devoted to colorful gemstones and fluorescent minerals, and explains the mineralogical, geological, and historical significance of these minerals