I am a retired educator with B.A. and M.A. degrees, and I have been researching and writing for more than a decade about England’s first attempts to establish a permanent colony in present-day North Carolina. Much of my work has focused on the disappearance of what has become known as the 1587 Lost Colony.
My books on this topic are The Lost Colony of Roanoke: New Perspectives, Manteo and the Algonquians of the Roanoke Voyages, and A Lost Colony Hoax: The Chowan River Dare Stone.
My most recent book is Edgar Allan Poe: A Scrapbook, which contains nearly 500 clippings, records, notices, documents, and other contemporary ephemera pertaining to the life of Edgar Allan Poe and his parentage from 1788 to 1849.
I am a member of the Virginia Historical Society, the Library of Virginia, and the Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia. I live in the Richmond, Virginia area.