Betty Rivard is an award-winning fine art landscape photographer. She has researched and coordinated three exhibits of FSA photographs of West Virginia and contributed articles about the FSA Project to Wonderful West Virginia, Goldenseal, and West Virginia South magazines. She is a Social Worker Emeritus with graduate degrees in education and social work from West Virginia University and a BA in political science from the University of California at Berkeley, USA. She traveled to every county in West Virginia during her 25-year career as a social worker and planner with the state. Jerry Bruce Thomas, Professor Emeritus, Shepherd University, is the author of An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great Depression and An Appalachian Reawakening: West Virginia and the Perils of the New Machine Age. Carl Fleischhauer is a digital preservation specialist at the Library of Congress. He is the coauthor of Documenting America, 1935-1943, a book about the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photographs. In the 1970s, he worked for the public television station based at West Virginia University and contributed to a Library of Congress documentary project about the Hammons family of Marlinton, West Virginia.
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