Melinda Jo RayA seventh generation Texan, Melinda Jo Ray is a retired librarian and educator who has long enjoyed sharing her lifelong love of history and the real people who inhabit it. In 2015 she added freelance writer, local historian, and museum volunteer to er list of occupations. She has written numerous articles for local publications, often visits local groups as a speaker on local history, and volunteers as a docent at the Hood County Museum and the Granbury Depot Hood County Archives Collection. For fourteen years she was also an owner and operator of the Historic Nutt House Hotelon the downtown Granbury Square, a business founded by the families whose story is found in the pages of her Nutt/Landers Family Chronicles series of novels. Read More Read Less