Thomas WieckowskiThomas J. Wieckowski makes his home in Wyncote, Pennsylvania. He is vice president of the Old York Road Historical Society and chair of the Cheltenham Township Historical Commission. He received his B.S. at Villanova University, and Ph.D. from The Caholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He is now retired after a thirty-year career at Drexel University in Philadelphia, where he was associate dean of the College of Business, among other positions. He currently devotes his time to his lifelong hobby of historical research and writing. He is the author of two previous books: Making Marathon, a history of the village of Wyncote, Pennsylvania, the first outpost of the Gilded Age, and A Spectacle for Men and Angels, a documentary history of Camp William Penn, the first and largest training camp for Black soldiers during the Civil War. Read More Read Less