Kay K. Moss directed the Eighteenth-Century Backcountry Lifeways Studies Programs at the Schiele Museum of Natural History in Gastonia, North Carolina, for twenty years and continues her research as an adjunct curator. A graduate of Duke University, she is an author of The Backcountry Housewife: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Foods; Decorative Motifs from the Southern Backcountry, 1750-1825; and Journey to the Piedmont Past.