Acknowledgements Chuck Mobley, chief writer, is a native of Charleston, S.C., a Vietnam War veteran and a 1977 graduate of the University of South Carolina. He worked for the Aiken, S.C., Standard and the Warner Robins Daily Sun before moving to Savannah in 1980 to work for the Savannah Morning News. He’s married to Shelly Mobley, an English teacher at Groves High School, and the father of two children, Hallie and Cooper. Steve Bisson, chief photographer, is a Savannah native and second generation photojournalist, and has been a photographer for the Savannah Morning News for more than 35 years. He serves as photo chief for the Savannah Morning News/savannahnow.com. He attended the University of Georgia.
John Duncan, a 12th generation Charlestonian, migrated south in 1965 to teach history at Armstrong State University. He specialized in the history of Savannah, sharing his love of the city with thousands of students over the next 30 years. Since 1985, he has shared the stories and documents of the city’s past with thousands of visitors to the shop he and his wife, Ginger, run on Monterey Square – V & J Duncan Antique Maps, Prints & Books. Of his many interests, his one confessed passion is to gather all that can be known about architect William Jay, whom he and Ginger have pursued from Georgia, through South Carolina, across England and into the Indian Ocean. Sandra Underwood and her husband, John,
Julia Muller, a native Savannahian, is archivist and online producer at the Savannah Morning News.
Christopher Sweat grew up just west of here in Patterson, but now calls Savannah home. A graduate of the University of Georgia and Armstrong State University, he is the commercial content manager of the Savannah Morning News. He was responsible for the design and layout of Stories Set in Stone. While, by no means is he an architect, his skills at building LEGO houses with his niece and nephew are beyond compare.
moved to Savannah in 2002, looking for sunshine and lovely old houses. Both were retired from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where she was a professor of art history, and he was executive vice president. Searching for bits of Savannah history for a book project – The Bird Girl: The Story of a Sculpture by Sylvia Shaw Judson (Schiffer, 2006) – Sandy met John Duncan and volunteered to help tell the story of William Jay. A book manuscript is now underway.
Gene Carpenter is Special Projects Coordinator for the Beehive Foundation. The stories were originally produced for an exhibit at a conference hosted by Historic Savannah Foundation for the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Daniel G. Carey, President & CEO of the Historic Savannah Foundation, born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. After graduating from the University of Notre Dame, he received a Master’s degree in Folk Studies/ Historic Preservation from Western Kentucky University. He began working for the Office of Historic Properties in Frankfort, Kentucky, and in 1991 moved to Charleston to work for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. After nearly ten years serving in the Southern office he moved to Fort Worth to run the Southwest office of the NTHP. He began his tenure at HSF in December of 2008.
Publisher Michael C. Traynor Executive Editor Susan Catron
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