ABOUT THE AUTHOR William D. Moore spent his childhood years at the little hamlet of North Mountain Depot which is one mile north of Hedgesville, Berkeley County, WV. When he married Mary Kate Eckerd, he moved to the Town of Hedgesville where he spent the next twenty-nine years. Twenty-four of those years were as an elected official for the little municipality. For his public service career he received the highest civilian award from the state, he was awarded the title Distinguished West Virginian by Governor Arch Moore in 1987 He graduated from Hedgesville High School and went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Shepherd College (now Shepherd University) He taught English at Martinsburg South Junior High School for three years. He went on to do graduate studies at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania where he received his Masters Degree in Guidance & Counseling. He worked for thirty years for the Washington County, MD Board of Education. Bill and Mary Kate had a daughter, Laura Andrea Moore. Together they restored and refurbished The Summit House a circa 1839 structure in the Town of Hedgesville. He began another career as a Presbyterian Lay Pastor for the Tabler Presbyterian Church in Berkeley County, WV. He has been a pastor there since 2000. The Eastern Panhandle Mission Council of the fifteen Presbyterian Churches awarded Mr. Moore an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree for his participation and leadership In 2011.