About the Author

June Davis Davidson, author of Images of America: Meridian, served on the board of directors for the Mississippi Writers Guild from 2010 to 2012 and is a member of the Mississippi Alliance for the Arts in Education. Richelle Putnam, a Mississippi Arts Commission Teaching and Roster Artist and a Mississippi Humanities Speaker on the literary arts, is also the special features director for Southern Writers magazine and a regular contributor to many publications. She is the author of Lauderdale County, Mississippi: A Brief History.