Friends of the Parma Museum will host an autograph party on Sunday, December 3 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Meetinghouse Museum, 460 Parma Center Road. Previous historical publications about the area will be available, plus the newly-published "Rochester Neighborhoods" pictorial by Shirley Cox Husted and Ruth Rosenberg-Naparsteck.

A holiday Open House on the first week of December has long been a tradition of the Museum's program. Proceeds benefit the museum treasury. There will be free admission, free refreshments and several door prizes.

"Rochester Neighborhoods" is the second volume in a trilogy written by Husted for Arcadia Publishing's "Images of America" series. "Parma and Hilton" came out in February, the Rochester book in mid-November, with "Greece, NY" scheduled for next February. Each features 128 pages with over 200 antique pictures.

The new Rochester book concentrates on the Flour City era, the Flower City era, emancipation and women's rights, the city's downtown, growth and urban renewal, and waterside views along Lake Ontario, Irondequoit Bay and the Genesee River. Maps indicate the location of the city's old pioneer neighborhoods. The role of some of the county's leading politicians is also touched upon since the book is written from the perspective of a former Monroe County Historian, a post Husted held for nearly 20 years.

Although Husted wrote the text, she and the city historian collaborated in the selection of pictures and the layout. Last July 4, they completed the layout in a marathon session in order to make publication possible in time for the Christmas market. "Greece, NY" went to press in October. Printed in England, the publisher's four-month production schedule means that the first copies of "Greece" will not be available until January or February.

As usual, photographs taken by Shirley Cox Husted will appear, along with others from the files of the Parma Historian, Rochester City Historian and the Local History Division at Rundel Library. The Greece Historian office and the Hilton Village Historian's office provided a number of illustrations for the Greece book.

Advance orders for the Greece book will be taken at the Open House, for those wishing to order the entire triology.