Patricia L HudsonPatricia L. Hudson is a freelance writer and former contributing editor for Americana magazine. She is also the author of Inns of the Southern Mountains, coeditor of Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia, andcoauhor of The Carolinas and the Appalachian States, a volume in the Smithsonian Guide to Historic America series. To learn more about the research and writing of Traces, go to Patricia-Hudson.com. Read More Read Less