One of the more elegant projects we do at SOAP is publish the White Pine Monographs, a collection of architectural renderings, designs and examples of how to build with Eastern White Pine. The original monographs were published in the nineteen tees and twenties. For our client NELMA we brought them back.
In April 1920, the publisher of the Monographs (the White Pine Bureau) published a story on Stotham, MA. It was a fictional town. The fiction went undiscovered until the late 1940s when staff at the Library of Congress’ Department of Fine Arts was unable to locate the town. April Fools, the publisher said.
Who could resist pulling that off again?
In April 2010, we published a Monograph about New Milford, NH. On April 1st, 2011, we were busted by the Milford Cabinet, a newspaper that had been researching this fictional town and running into dead ends left and right. Of course, we had to make sure that the town burned to the ground.
To keep the facade up, we created a blog written by the Author or the New Milford article, Gideon Leonard. Lots of people emailed Leonard for directions to the site. The blog Chronicles town history, townspeople and other insights by Gideon.
It's appropriate that we get busted this close to April fools.
http://www.cabinet.com/cabinetcabinetnews/914158-308/tale-of-milford-history.html
