Contributors

Contributors John Clubbe has a longstanding interest in cultural history with a particular focus on the Ohio Valley. In 2004 ( the centenary of Hearn' s death)he was an invited speaker to " Lafcadio Hearn in International Perspectives" at the University ofTokyo. Among his books are Cincinnati Obserged.· Architecture and History 1992)and Byron,Sully,and tbe Power of Portraiture 2005). He lives in Santa Fe. Bradford W.Scharlott is associate professor at Northern Kentucky University , where he serves as coordinator of the journalism program. His publications on the social and economic impact of the telegraph in the nineteenth century Midwest have appeared in a variety of publications,including Ohio History,andJournalism 8 Mass Communication Quarterly. Mary Carmen Cupito is associate professor of communication at Northern Kentucky University. Her entry on " Newspapers in Northern Kentucky" is in press for the Encyclopedia ofNorthern Kentucky Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008). Robert T.Rhode is professor of English at Northern Kentucky University. He is the author of 7be Harvest Story:Recollections ofOldTime ' Ibresbermen 2001)and, with Raymond Drake, Classic American Steamrollers 2001), as well as over one hundred and fifty articles,twothirds of them on the subject of rural history and literature. His work appears in Black Earth and Duory Toiuer 2005), an anthology of contemporary writers on the present rural experience. ...