Local Historian Seeks Photos of Rincon Point for Upcoming Book

 

Rincon Point

Selected images sought by historian Vince Burns will be used in the book “Rincon Point,” a pictorial history of the iconic surf spot.

Local author and historian Vince Burns is looking for old photographs of Rincon Point – from the earliest days to the 1980s – that might be used in “Rincon Point,” a pictorial history to be published by Arcadia Publishing in its series, “Images of America.” The same series recently published two books on Carpinteria and La Conchita.

“Key to the project are photographs, and the importance of family collections cannot be overemphasized,” Burns said. “Vintage photographs become increasingly fragile and by scanning and reproducing them in a book, they become available for all to see and are preserved forever.”

Burns has worked in book and database library publishing for many years and recently retired from ABC-CLIO in Goleta. Along the way, he was involved in bringing out more than 10,000 books in his career. Burns also wrote a reference book on global terrorism and has published articles on publishing and European history. He has a doctorate in history from the University of Wisconsin, and his grandmother, Helen Anderson, built a house on Rincon Point in the 1970s.

Anyone who would like to submit photographs to be considered for the book can contact Burns at vinceburns805@gmail.com or (805) 758-0338. Burns has a high-resolution scanner and can return photographs promptly. Although photographs are the heart of the project, Burns is also interested in community members’ special stories about Rincon Point.

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