About the Author

Scott Jost is Professor of Art and Art Department Chair at Bridgewater College whose photographs have been exhibited widely in the mid-Atlantic region and nationally. He is the author of Shenandoah Valley Apples (Columbia College Chicago Press, 2013) and Blacks Run: An American Stream (Center for American Places, 1999) and was the contributing photographer to The Great Valley Road of Virginia: Shenandoah Landscapes from Prehistory to the Present (University of Virginia Press, in association with the Center for the Study of American Places, 2010). His latest book, Confluence: Rivers and Streams in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed is expected from George F. Thompson Publishing in Fall 2021.

About the Contributor

Scott Hamilton Suter is Professor of English and American Studies and Director of the Margaret Grattan Weaver Institute for Regional Culture at Bridgewater College. He is the author of Shenandoah Valley Folklife (University Press of Mississippi, 1999) and the forthcoming A Potter's Progress: Emanuel Suter and the Business of Craft (University of Tennessee Press, 2020).