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DocuSign Envelope ID: 11DE62E5-2A6F-405A-95C6-39BD794A60E4 <br /> Hidden Hillsborough: A community publishing project <br /> PROJECT SUMMARY <br /> This Fall (2017), Eno Publishers will introduce Hidden Hillsborough: Historic <br /> Dependencies and Landscapes in a Small Southern Town, a four-color book. The 228-page <br /> volume will be filled with beautiful photographs by noted Hillsborough photographer <br /> Elizabeth Matheson, as well as maps and essays by a dozen local citizens. <br /> Years in the making, the project began out of curiousity about mysterious elements <br /> around town: for example, a structure in someone's backyard, stone steps that don't <br /> seem to lead anywhere, berms along certain Hillsborough streets that serve no <br /> apparent purpose, and other unusual features. A committee was formed under the <br /> auspices of the Preservation Fund of Hillsborough to investigate. With a lot of <br /> research and interviewing and the superb photo-documentary by Elizabeth Matheson, <br /> the committee is sharing its findings. <br /> For the last eight months, Eno has joined forces with the Preservation committee <br /> to help shape the project into a book. Now at press, the book reveals the purpose of <br /> the features mentioned above, as well as many others, telling their story and the story <br /> of Hillsborough. Photographed and documented are such topics as the town's street <br /> system, remnants of early sidewalks, gardens, well houses, spring houses, outdoor <br /> kitchens, barns, icehouses, offices, necessaries, slave houses, and educational <br /> institutions. <br /> As Callie Connor notes in her fine introductory and concluding notes, ". . . seeing <br /> historic Hillsborough today implies a task for both the eye and the imagination." The <br /> illuminating material in Hidden Hillsborough enables us to do just that. As writer Lee <br /> Smith says on the back cover, the book allows us ". . . to see and imagine--bringing <br /> the past brilliantly to life." <br /> The book will be available in hard cover ($40) and soft cover ($27.50). We are <br /> printing 250 copies of the hard cover; 500 copies of the soft cover. <br /> Eno Publishers is planning a regional marketing program for Hidden Hillsborough <br /> that in many respects will parallel what we typically do for a book: press releases, <br /> review copies to key media, book signings, events, and a social media campaign. We <br /> also have a unique opportunity to promote the town and the book by featuring some <br /> of the beautiful images created by Elizabeth Matheson. <br /> We would like to create three enlargements of images from Hidden Hillsborough that <br /> would be printed in vinyl and stretched over a frame to easily display on easels at <br /> events. These would be of lasting quality and could be permanently displayed at the <br /> Orange County Public Library or another County building, giving generations to <br /> come a chance to observe historic elements of our landscape as interpreted by a noted <br /> contemporary photographer. <br /> Eno Publishers: Hidden Hillsborough 1 <br />