The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown

Lorri Glover is the author of two books on the early South, Southern Sons: Becoming Men in the New Nation and All Our Relations: Blood Ties and Emotional Bonds Among the Early South Carolina Gentry. She is a professor of early American history at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville who specializes in Southern and family history. She earned her M.A. from Clemson University and her Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky.

Daniel Blake Smith is the author of Inside the Great House: Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society and many articles on early American history. He is a professor of colonial American history at the University of Kentucky.

Michael Prichard has played several thousand characters during his career. While he has been seen performing over one hundred of them in theater and film, Michael is primarily heard, having recorded well over five hundred full-length books. During his career as a one-man repertory company, he has recorded many series with running characters-including the complete Travis McGee adventures by John D. MacDonald and the complete Nero Wolfe mysteries by Rex Stout-as well as series by such masters as Mark Twain, John Cheever, and John Updike. His numerous awards and accolades include an Audie Award for Tears in the Darkness by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman and several AudioFile Earphones Awards, including for At All Costs by Sam Moses and In Nixon's Web by L. Patrick Gray III. Named a Top Ten Golden Voice by SmartMoney magazine, he holds an M.F.A. in theater from the University of Southern California. Michael appears regularly on the professional stage, including as a member of Ray Bradbury's Pandemonium Theatre Company, performing such great roles as Captain Beatty in Fahrenheit 451, which became the second-longest-running production in the Los Angeles area. Bradbury himself dubbed Michael "the finest Beatty in history."