Jay Fields: Journalist, poet, photographer, water colorist, writer. Schools: Webb School, Woodberry Forest, University of Virginia, University of Tennessee (Degree in Journalism), graduate work at East Tennessee State University. Daily newspaper reporter, editor.  More than thirty years advertising agency creative director.  Author:

The Craft Heritage Trails of Western North Carolina (art/travel); In Pursuit of a Greater Good, Rural Community Development in Western North Carolina (history); On the Fly (watercolor sketches); Making Good (memoir); Blue Roads (poetry); Following the Urban Trail (photography, history); Acts of Imagination (design); The History of Grandfather Home (historical perspective); Space (poetry).