About The Publisher

Elizabeth (Ibby) T. Greer has lived in Franklin County, VA, since her marriage to T. Keister Greer in 1990. Before that, she lived in Roanoke, VA, and many other places in the USA—IL, FL, MI, CT, CO, CA, AZ, TX, NJ—and in London and Vienna, Austria.

She is the author of two books, Moving Day: A Season of Letters (2001) an epistolary novel [letters] set in Boulder, CO, and Paper Faces: Babyboomer Memoir (2002), a free verse autobiography with illustrations and photos.

Travel, writing, painting, a love of the South, genealogy, and geography are among her interests. She is a certified Board Trainer, serves on the Boards of Ferrum College, the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, the Womens’ Center at the University of Virginia, is a member of Virginia’s Old Carolina Road Chapter of the DAR , State Chairman for Public Relations for the Virginia DAR, and President of the Henry Corbin Chapter of Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century. Greer gives talks on “Hidden Treasures of the Blue Ridge,” “Life, Love, and Loss—Based on the Life of her fictitious character Ann C. Bow of Moving Day: A Season of Letters,” and on Women and Philanthropy to departments of development and civic groups.

Her husband, a retired lawyer who practiced in both California and Virginia for more than 40 years, is the author of The Great Moonshine Conspiracy Trial of 1935 (now in its 3rd printing) [see this website for information or www.moonshineconspiracybook.com ] and Genesis of a Virginia Frontier, The Origins of Franklin County, Virginia 1740-1785. Her son, Andrew Taylor Call, a law student, is the author of Jacob Bunn: Legacy of an Illinois Industrial Pioneer. [See this website for information or www.bunnlegacy.com.]

Ibby Greer published a print version of Blue Ridge Traditions from early 2003 until the final print issue, in late 2005. Vol. 12, Number 4 was the final print edition. [See Back Issues on this site for ordering information of the magazines, while supplies last.] Shifting to an online forum, combined with the new Blue Ridge Traditions Marketplace on this site, Blue Ridge Traditions will focus on editorials by Greer, selected “History Tidbits” on this site, book reviews, and the online sales of books selected from her stock.

Books Are available through www.blueridgetraditions.com, by writing etgreer@jetbroadband.com, or by writing Blue Ridge Traditions Marketplace, P.O. Box 800, Rocky Mount, VA 24151.