Eastern Kentucky Genealogy Conference 2011

           Daniel Sharfstein is an associate professor of law at Vanderbilt University. His scholarship focuses on the legal history of race in the United States. His book, The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White, was released this year by Penguin Press. His writing has also appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, New York Times, Slate, Washington Post, Economist, American Prospect and Legal Affairs. For his research on civil rights and the color line in the American South, Professor Sharfstein was awarded an Alphonse Fletcher, Sr., fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, and he was the inaugural recipient of the Raoul Berger Visiting Fellowship in Legal History at Harvard Law School.

A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, he clerked for the Honorable Dorothy W. Nelson, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the Honorable Rya W. Zobel, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He was also an associate at Strumwasser & Woocher, a public interest law firm in Santa Monica, California. Prior to law school, he worked as a journalist in West Africa and Southern California. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty in fall 2007, he was a Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History at New York University School of Law.

            Robert Prather and his wife Karen reside near Garrett, Kentucky and since 1982 have owned and operated a small business there.  He is a member of local historical and archaeological organizations.  For recreation he enjoys metal detecting.  As a Project Field Editor, Mr. Prather also works with Acclaim Press developing county history books.

            Robert Prather is the author of The Strange Case of Jonathan Swift and the Real Long John Silver.

          Ann Johnson is an Administrative Assistant with the Cemetery Preservation Program at the Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort. She also provides administrative support to the Kentucky Museum and Heritage Alliance.

          Ann started her new career at KHS in 2001 after retiring with 31 years of service with the State Department for Public Health.  She is pleased to be asked to talk about a project and program that has garnered a lot of attention, passion, frustration and satisfaction.  Although Ann’s position is part-time, she finds there is full-time interest in cemetery preservation.

Ed is a native of Paintsville, KY and received his education in the rural schools of Johnson County; graduated from Paintsville High School, Morehead State University and the University of Kentucky.

Mr. Hazelett spent 42 years as a teacher with 30 of those years teaching History and 15 years teaching Genealogy.Ed was the President of the Johnson County Historical Society for 17 years and former President of the Big Sandy Valley Historical Society. In addition, he was instrumental in creating the new Big Sandy Valley History Center on Euclid Avenue in Paintsville, KY.