About the Author

Chris Dickon is an Emmy-winning former public radio and television producer with extensive broadcast experience in local and international history documentary in Europe, the Mideast, Japan, and the Caribbean. His work has been broadcast statewide in Virginia, on PBS stations and National Public Radio nationwide, and internationally on the Voice of America. As a writer he has published three books within the last year: on the histories of the Eastern Shore Railroad, the Chesapeake Bay Passenger Steamers, and the College of William and Mary.