Debbielee Landi works for the Department of Archives and Special Collections at the John Davis Williams Library. She received a B.A. in history from Rutgers and an M.A in history from the University of Mississippi.

Aimee Lewis is a Southern Studies graduate student from Memphis, TN. She received a B.A. in English in 1992 from Christian Brothers University in Memphis. She is currently doing research for her master's thesis on historic Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis' oldest active cemetery.

Lynda McNeil joined the faculty at the University of Mississippi as research associate in the Music Library/Blues Archive in November 1994. She received a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Southern Mississippi and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of North Texas.

Christopher Sheffield is a staff writer with University News in the Department of Public Relations at the University of Mississippi. He graduated in 1990 from the University of Memphis with a degree in Journalism.