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Sarah Beaver

Sarah Beaver is from Concord, N.C., and grew up spending all her family vacations at historical sites and museums so studying history was an obvious choice for her. She is currently enrolled at University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the Graduate Public History program. Sarah received her bachelor’s degree in Public History from Appalachian State University in 2011. She hopes to one day turn her love of digging through archives and visiting museums into her profession.

Amanda Elzey

Amanda Elzey is in her first year of the graduate history program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received her bachelor's degree in history from Campbell University in May 2012. She has a passion for women's history and Appalachian studies and, after a wonderful experience working in the Campbell University archives, dreams of making a career in an archive setting someday. She currently resides in Indian Trail, North Carolina, with her family and five cats.

Andrew Pack

Andrew Pack is a first year history graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a concentration in American History. Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he moved to Charlotte at a young age and has lived there ever since.

He has been interested in history for years, beginning by researching his ancestors in the Archives and spreading into a love for all types of history. He received his B.A. in History from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in May of this year and looks forward to continuing his graduate education at the University.

K. Blake Tyner

Blake Tyner, a native of Robeson County, is married to the member Bess Hubbard Tyner and they have one son, McKay.

He comes by a love of history naturally.  He descends from early colonial settlers of North Carolina and grew up with a love of history that has propelled him to delve into the records and archives of North Carolina at an early age.  He has a B.A. in History from UNC Pembroke, a Masters of Library Science from NCCU and is currently enrolled in history graduate classes at UNCC.

He has published three books: Images of America: Robeson County, Robeson County in Vintage Postcards and Goin' for a Soldier (all winners of the North Carolina Society of Historians Willie Parker Peace Historical Book award).

He pursues his avocation as curator of the Robeson County History Museum. Three of his exhibits have won the Paul Green Multimedia Award by NC Society of Historians: Plantation Art and Artifacts of the Carolinas; Secrets of the Swamps; and Robeson County Flight & War Bride’s Room, all featuring original research on aspects of Robeson County’s history.

He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Past President of the Society of North Carolina Archivists, and former officer in the history section of the NC Museums Council.