Rod BarfieldRod Barfield has been a student of history for forty years. A graduate of Elon University, with graduate studies at Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia, he has written more than fifty articles for academic journals, magazines, and newspapers His Historical Atlas of the Outer Banks, Seasoned by Salt (Un. of North Carolina Press, 1995), is in its fourth printing. Barfield has been a tour guide to the Soviet Union, supervised the building of the Museum of the Cape Fear (Fayetteville, N.C.), and was Director of the North Carolina Maritime Museum (Beaufort, N.C.) near the Outer Banks for ten years. His freelance work includes coordinating a major museum exhibit hall for Roanoke Island Festival Park (Manteo, N.C.), and exhibits for Currituck Lighthouse (Corolla, N.C.) and for Roanoke Island Living Farm. Barfield has rehabbed a two-story historic farmhouse in Patrick County, Virginia and lives in a 1917 farmhouse near Staunton, Virginia. His hobbies include biking on the Creeper Trail out of Damascus, Virginia and the New River Trail out of Galax, Virginia, as well as gym workouts, hiking, and writing. The reader can find some of Barfield's flash fiction in the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. Read More Read Less