Joan Silva PatrakisJoan Silva Patrakis has a BA in American studies and lives in Andover, Massachusetts. She is an active member of the Andover Historical Society and recently received an award for Individual Achievement as local historian from the Andover Historic Preervation Commission. Over the past thirty years, Ms. Patrakis has written historical articles for local newspapers, including the Townsman and the Lawrence Tribune, as well as more than seventy articles for the Andover Historical Society's quarterly Newsletter. She researched, wrote and produced a video on nineteenth-century Andover women and lectures on Andover in the Civil War. Read More Read Less