Gail E EvansGail E. Evans is a historian, author, and former athlete. Influenced by her father's stories of traveling and living in Liverpool as a young man and throughout Europe as a naval architect, Gail became enamored with traveling to new places around the orld. As a young woman, she lived in Japan, traveled across the former Soviet Union, visited relatives in England and Wales, and later led tours to the United Kingdom. Gail has worked professionally in the field of heritage conservation (historic preservation) and researched and written histories on places in the U.S. and Canada for the US Park Service and Parks Canada. Gail received a B.S. in historical geography from the University of Oregon and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Oregon, Santa Barbara. Read More Read Less