Around Mendon and Honeoye Falls is a photographic essay that imparts a sense of the people who lived here and their activities from early times. The first pictorial history of the area, it contains images from the town historian's files, the village files, and the historical society files. Located south of Rochester in Monroe County, Mendon and its sole village, Honeoye Falls, were first settled in 1791. Mendon was officially organized in 1813, a few years before Rochester. Just far enough away from the bustle of that city, Mendon continues to be a lovely, rolling, rural township with a number of large farms, and Honeoye Falls continues to draw visitors throughout the year.

Diane Ham was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, grew up in Michigan where she received a BS degree in Business Administration from Central Michigan University, spent a few years in Kentucky and has lived in the Rochester, New York area for about fifty years. She has been Mendon Town Historian, where she currently lives, for forty years. She has written several books and booklets on Mendon subjects. She became a registered historian of New York State in 2005 and is also past president of the Monroe County Municipal Historians and a member of the Association of Public Historians of New York State. In her spare time, she and her husband of fifty-five years enjoy renovating their old farmhouse, camping and traveling. They have two married sons and two granddaughters.