Nancy Griffith, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a graduate of Dickinson College and Syracuse University. She has worked as a librarian for the past twenty-five years and developed an interest in local history while serving as director of the Regional Studies Center at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas. While in Arkansas, she was on the board of the Independence County Historical Society and published numerous articles on county history. For the past ten years, she has been the head of Archives and Special Collections at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina. Since moving