Kay K Moss Author

Kay K. Moss is adjunct curator, retired program specialist, and founder of Eighteenth-Century Backcountry Lifeways Studies at the Schiele Museum of Natural History. She is the author of Seeking the Historical Cook: Exploring Eighteenth-Century Southern Foodways, Southern Folk Medicine, Decorative Motifs from the Southern Backcountry, and Journey to the Piedmont Past, and coauthor of The Backcountry Housewife.

Suzanne S. Simmons is a North Carolina native with a lifelong interest in our natural environment, native plants, and early technologies. Simmons retired after thirty-four years with the Schiele Museum, Gastonia, North Carolina as living-history interpreter, researcher, and backcountry farm manager, interweaving natural and cultural history, thereby eliminating the false boundary between them.