ABOUT THE AUTHORS

ROBERT SCHRAGE is very active in local history circles and has served on the boards of the Rabbit Hash Historical Society, Boone County Historic Preservation Board and the Behringer Crawford Board. In 2015, Schrage received the William Conrad Preservation Excellence Award for Lifetime Achievement in preservation of local history. Previous works include: Legendary Locals of Covington (Arcadia Publishing); Eyewitness to History: A Personal Journal (winner of honorable mentions at the New York, Amsterdam and Florida Book Festivals, Merlot Group); Carl Kiger: The Man Beyond the Murder (Merlot Group); The Ohio River from Cincinnati to Louisville (Arcadia Publishing); Boone County: Then and Now (Arcadia Publishing); and Burlington (Arcadia Publishing).

DAVE SCHROEDER is past president of the Kentucky Library Association and the Kentucky Public Library Association. He is currently president of the Friends of the Kentucky Public Archives. He is also a longtime member of the Kentucky Archives and Records Commission. Schroeder has presented at local, state and national conferences on history and genealogy topics. He was awarded the James Nelson Advocacy Award in 2012 by the Kentucky Library Association, the 2014 Outstanding Public Library Service Award by the Kentucky Public Library Association and the Two-Headed Calf Award in History from the Behringer-Crawford Museum in Covington, Kentucky, in 2017. That same year, he was presented the Alumni Professional Achievement Award from Thomas More College in Crestview Hills, Kentucky. Schroeder is the executive director of the Kenton County Public Library and previously held the position of archivist for Thomas More College and the Diocese of Covington. He is the author of Life Along the Ohio: A Sesquicentennial History of Ludlow, Kentucky (Little Miami Press, 2014) and coeditor of Gateway City: Covington, Kentucky, 1815–2015 (Clerisy Press, 2015).