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We stroll the streets of an old neighborhood or drive past it on I-64, headed to some dismally cookie-cutter place, and have no idea what once lay in either. Community historians fight this chronic obliteration of memory and meaning, and now another one has a book out. Tim Receveur studies Phoebus, the old neighborhood in Hampton, and on Monday the 4th he’ll give a talk about the book he wrote with Tom Jackson.

It’s “The Pride of Phoebus: The Illustrious History of the Phoebus Fire Department,” independently published. The talk will run from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Hampton History Museum as part of its Port Hampton Lecture Series.

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Receveur and his wife, Amy, created and run the popular Facebook page “Phoebus and Fort Monroe: Then and Now” and PhoebusMemories.org – which says, as introduction, “Also known as Little Chicago during the 20th century, Phoebus is remembered today for its 63 saloons and epic riots during the Spanish-American War and its rise in bootlegging and gambling during Prohibition.” As for the fire company, the book says it was founded in 1893 and helped end riots, comforted a community stricken by Yellow Fever, and repeatedly saved the town from ruin.

Details: Free for museum members, $5 if not. 120 Old Hampton Lane, downtown. Free garage parking across the street. 757-727-1102 or HamptonHistoryMuseum.org.

Traveling Pen workshop: It’s easy to dismiss “old” lit as irrelevant. Karen McSpadden will show writers otherwise with “Literary Time Travel: How Timeless Literature Improves Our Craft Today," another seminar sponsored by Hampton Roads Writers. HRW awarded McSpadden first in nonfiction in its 2018 contest. 9:30 to noon Saturday, Nov. 16. Virginia Beach campus, Tidewater Community College. Blackwater Building, Room CW-134. Check-in at 9:15. $10 and $20. Details: HRWriters@cox.net, HamptonRoadsWriters.org or 757-639-6146.

Also, Sharon Canfield Dorsey will sign “Buddy the Bookworm Rescues the Doomed Books” (High Tide Publications) at 10 a.m. Saturday the 9th. William & Mary Bookstore, Merchants Square, 345 Duke of Gloucester St., Williamsburg. 757-221-1651.

Limits and pushback: Publisher Macmillan will not allow libraries more than one e-book copy per new title for the first two months after publication. The nation’s biggest library system, Washington’s King County (the Seattle area), is pushing back: It won’t buy titles under embargo. The executive director said the embargo “artificially lengthens the queue, triggering more of the same title to be purchased than would have occurred if we had been allowed to buy for the first two months.” In addition, an American Library Association petition against the embargo period is approaching 150,000 signatures, and the ALA itself in mid-October delivered a report to a House antitrust committee that is investigating competition in “the digital market.” (Publishers Weekly, Library Journal)

Patricia Highsmith kept diaries. Many diaries, two at a time: One about her work, the other about her life, at least 56 volumes of them. After she died in 1995, her editor found them in a linen closet, and now Liveright will publish excerpts with some of her drawings. Highsmith, secretive and often peevish, was known mostly for her psychological crime thrillers, including “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and “Strangers on a Train.” (NYT)

In the pipeline: Elena Ferrante’s first novel in five years, being released in Italy on Nov. 7, comes out in the States June 9 as “The Lying Life of Adults” (Europa Editions). (Publishers Lunch)

Margaret Atwood went to Windsor Castle on Oct. 25 to be named by Queen Elizabeth a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for her services to literature. The order was founded in 1917 by King George V. (Shelf Awareness)

And more honors: The Kirkus Prizes – each $50,000 – went to Colson Whitehead’s novel, “The Nickel Boys”; Saeed Jones’ memoir “How We Fight for Our Lives”; and Jerry Craft’s graphic novel for young readers, “New Kid,” about a black kid starting over and struggling to fit in at a mostly white private school.

New and recent

“The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History” by Nathalia Holt (Little, Brown, 400 pp.). Disney’s story and animation departments were, of course, boys’ clubs. Holt (“Rise of the Rocket Girls”) shows how women writers and animators worked their way in and used early technologies to create the Disney artwork and narratives that became part of the American canon. Think “Fantasia,” “Bambi,” “Cinderella”; think sexual harassment, denial of credit for their work, and more. Holt takes the timeline of women’s work at Disney up to the current day. (Publishers Lunch, Publishers Weekly)

Also: From Gloria Steinem, “The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion” … From Ruta Sepetys (“Salt to the Sea,” others), a novel about Franco’s Spain: “The Fountains of Silence”… Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille, “The Deserter” … Lee Child’s “Blue Moon,” a Jack Reacher novel.

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