Author Fran Marscher spent ten years as a reporter and editor at the Island Packet, Hilton Head's daily newspaper. Now a freelance journalist, Marscher writes for regional magazines and the Christian Science Monitor. She is co-author of four books about the South Carolina Lowcountry, including Remembering the Way it Was at Hilton Head, Bluffton and Daufuskie (volume 1) and Remembering the Way it Was at Beaufort, also published by The History Press (2005) and already in its second printing.