 What makes for excellence in heart care? It starts with one of the most amazing teams of heart surgeons and cardiologists that I've seen assembled under one roof and the region's leading technology in a new $40 million facility. This is the nationally recognized Heart and Vascular Institute of Eastern Kentucky at Pikeville Medical Center. Brad Sloan on behalf of the City of Pikeville has written a pictorial history book, Pikeville Images of America that will be available later in the month of January. Arcadia Publishing does a series of books on small town histories and it's called Images of America series and it's their pictorial histories and they contacted the mayor about doing one for Pikeville and after hearing the commission talk they asked me to do it for them and I was excited to get to do that. Pikeville is getting ready to celebrate its bicentennial in 2024 so we've been here almost 200 years and it covers that time frame even a little bit before. The book is primarily a pictorial history so there are over 200 pictures and part of what I did was gather pictures from different sources. We've got pictures from over 30 different sources. A lot of time and work went into compiling the photos and information necessary to tell Pikeville's story. It was a lot of fun but it was a lot of work. The thing that I did not have a single source where I get all my pictures. I think like I say the main sources were the museum and the county library system and UPOX library but those are probably a third of the pictures are from those three sources and so I had to ground up a lot of other pictures from individuals and I tracked down descendants from people who haven't lived here in 60 years and things like that so it was a lot of fun. Pikeville Images of America will be available on January 16th. Pre-orders for Pikeville Images of America are available on Amazon and will be available at local retailers after the release. For more information you can visit the City of Pikeville Facebook page. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsea Deem.