Presenter Eric Wilson has been Executive Director of the Rockbridge Historical Society since 2012.
Wilson earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Brown University and Harvard University, and he has taught literature, history, and cultural studies at Boston College, Washington & Lee University, Norfolk Academy, and in Lexington and Rockbridge Public Schools.
Wilson is a founding Board Member of the Portsmouth Colored Community Library Museum (Portsmouth, Virginia) and the Miller’s House Museum of Transportation and Industry (Lexington, Virginia). He continues to consult on a variety of public history projects, exhibits, school curricula, community planning, and commemorative programs in the region and across the state.