For more than 40 years, Nancy has found ways to combine her loves of history, journalism, photography, and the great outdoors. She became interested in outdoor journalism in the 1980s while working in the sports department of a daily newspaper, where she started the paper’s outdoors page. That was thousands of articles, photos, and a couple of books ago. She continues to freelance for a number of publications where she writes about outdoor adventure including biking and hiking as well as tackling environmental issues. She has been the editor of Sempervirens, the statewide newsletter of the Virginia Native Plant Society since last century. She is a VOWA past president and has been VOWA’s long-time secretary. She shares 10 acres of land in Augusta County with her husband Randy, two crazy dogs, a very large cat, and a few fish.