Böcker av Jane Moorman

There is a saying, "It was a Friday night and it seemed like a good idea at the time." That sums up the beginning of the State Capitols Project.When Jane Moorman told her brother of her idea of photographing state capitols, he said, "You do know there are 50 states and two of them you can't drive to."Her answer was, "Your point is? It gives me a good reason to visit every state."Each capitol has its own unique beauty that reflects the state's personality when it was built.Goddess Minerva is a reoccurring symbol throughout California's capitol. According to ancient Roman mythology, she was born fully grown. Her image symbolizes California's direct rise to statehood, since it was not a territory before becoming a state.

There is a saying, "It was a Friday night and it seemed like a good idea at the time." That sums up the beginning of the State Capitols Project.When Jane Moorman told her brother of her idea of photographing state capitols, he said, "You do know there are 50 states and two of them you can't drive to."Her answer was, "Your point is? It gives me a good reason to visit every state."Each state's capitol has its own unique beauty that reflects the state's personality when it was built.Arkansas' capitol features bronze front doors purchased from Tiffany's of New York in 1910, circular legislative chambers with stained-glass skylights, and a pigskin leather door entering the Senate chamber.

Marysville, Kansas, is designated as a Black Squirrel City. To pay homage to the rare animal, the city's convention and tourism committee championed a public art project beginning in 2015. Five-foot tall black fiberglass squirrels. Each statue received a catchy name and was adorn in one-of-a-kind artwork by an area artist or by an artist who has ties to the area.Seven years later, Photographer Jane Moorman discovered the public art project while driving through the town. She was so amazed at the artwork that she located each and photographed all 51 statues.This book contains those photographs, plus the statue's name, the artist and the sponsor of the art to commemorate the project that received first place in the community awareness category at the Kansas Tourism Conference in 2017.

Upon retiring in 2021, Jane Moorman decided there is a lot of her native country she had not visited. Her first road trip was along the coastline of the Great Lakes, from Minnesota to the St. Lawerence River.Before embarking she purchased a map from National Geographic that had a few lighthouses marked on it. She decided she would visit them and take photos.Once she was on the road, she discovered a website lighthousefriends.com that had all the lighthouses marked for each coastal state. The quest began. It was a treasure hunt, following the internet map to find the structures. By the end of her month-long journey, she had visited 101 lighthouses.In this book she shares the photos of 70 of these marvelous structures. Along the way, she shares interesting information about the lakes and what she experienced.