Emilee Hines is the author of It Happened in Virginia, More Than Petticoats, Mapping the Old Dominion, East African Odyssey, Burnt Station, The Westover Girls, Mysteries & Legends of Virginia and Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Washington, DC History, as well as more than 300 articles and short stories, and is co-author of the series Old Virginia Houses. She is a graduate of Lynchburg College and has a master's degree from The University of North Carolina. She has traveled widely and has lived in Virginia, Texas, Michigan and Kenya. She now makes her home in the mountains of North Carolina,...