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Mrs. Delorey, a member of the reenactment community going back to before the bicentennial days, is a consultant, writer, lecturer, historic interpreter and costumer. She is editor of the *The Circle of the Rose*, a publication for historical interpreters and reenactors. She holds membership in the Costume Society of America, The Costume Society (UK), and The Company of Military Historians. Mrs. Delorey has been a symposium speaker at the MFA Boston, and Costume Society symposia in Ohio, New Hampshire & Massachusetts and has held workshops and programs for numerous historical and genealogical societies. In the Museum of Fine Arts Boston she had five years experience in the Costume and Textile Department conservation lab and as a research associate in curatorial, and was also curator of collections at the Braintree Historical Society, She is currently serving a 3-year term as Massachusetts State Historian, Daughters of the American Revolution, where she also holds 3 chairmanships-- Commemorative Events, George Washington Bicentennial Committee and Revolution 225.

Former *Beavis and Butt-Head* writer David Giffels is a columnist for *the Akron Beacon Journal* and the author of *All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-down House*, a memoir about coming of age as a father in a ramshackle mansion reclaimed from termites, belligerent squirrels, and decades of neglect. Giffels is also the coauthor of two other books: the rock biography *Are We Not Men? We Are Devo! *(2003); and *Wheels of Fortune: The Story of Rubber in Akron*. His essays appear in *The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia* (2006), and *The Appalachians: Americas First and Last Frontier *(2004), and he received a Notable Essay citation in Da Capo Best Music Writing 2004. He has written the introduction to a *West Point Market cookbook*, to be published by the University of Akron Press this fall.

The screenwriter and co-producer of *American Beauty*, Alan Ball earned almost overnight acclaim and recognition for his screenplay for the film, which won a Best Original Screenplay Oscar and Golden Globe, as well as numerous other honors. Ball's success was a long time coming; much of the frustration and anger felt by *American Beauty*'s protagonist, Lester Burnham, was inspired by the screenwriter's own dissatisfaction with his years spent working as a television writer and producer.

Steven Rafael founded Required Viewing, an independent film consultation agency, in 2004. Recently profiled in MovieMaker's "Top 25 People in Independent Film", Mr. Rafael has represented films as diverse as Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, Josh Marston's Maria Full of Grace, Mike Leigh's Vera Drake, and David Cronenberg's A History of Violence.