Barbara A AbbottKim Kenney earned her Master of Arts degree in history museum studies at the Cooperstown Graduate Program in New York. She became curator of the McKinley Presidential Library & Museum in 2001 and was promoted to assistant director in 2017. She has auhored six books, and her work has appeared in the Public Historian, White House History, The Repository, the Boston Globe, Aviation History and Mused. Kim has appeared on The Daily Show, First Ladies: Influence & Images and Mysteries at the Museum. Her program The 1918 Influenza Pandemic was featured on C-SPAN's series American History TV. Barbara Abbott graduated from the University of Akron in 1992 and began a career as a naturalist with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Traveling between state parks, she regularly published articles on history and wildlife for the Division of Parks and Division of Wildlife. She moved to Canton in 2004, and in 2012 started Canton Food Tours to showcase regional food and history. Named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce in 2013, Barbara was also inducted into the YWCA's Stark County Women's Hall of Fame and the Cleveland Chapter of Les Dames D'Escoffier. Read More Read Less
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