Cathy Hester Seckman is a lifelong resident of East Liverpool, Ohio, and has been a fan of day trips since her parents first said, "Let's take a ride!" on a Sunday afternoon. Writing this book has been an adventure as she discovers new favorite places and revisits old ones.

Cathy is a back-of-the-book indexer and has written some 160 indexes, including the one in this book. She has published more than a dozen short stories, hundreds of magazine articles, and thousands of newspaper articles. She is the author of East Liverpool, an Images of America title released by Arcadia Publishing in 2015. Weirdo World, her young adult fantasy novel, was published by Cool Well Press in 2012. As an indie author, she cowrote Bad Moon Rising, a murder mystery set between Woodstock and the Kent State shootings; Secrets Matter, a women's fiction title; and an anthology, H2O Mysteries.