Longtime residents and enthusiastic boosters, mother and daughter coauthors Laurel Benson and Debra Benson Faulkner delved into the extensive photographic archives of the Loveland Museum/Gallery to mine images that tell the town's life story. Along with illustrations supplied by local residents, these pictures chronicle the community's continual reinvention and the unique melding of myriad identities into a distinctive composite of past and present.