Heatheris a graduate of Christopher Newport University, University of Maryland,and earned her MLS from Texas Womans University. Originally from Texas, she has lived in Richmond for the past seven years. Heather worked in a public library, as well as a corporate library before coming to the Times-Dispatch. She also worked for a major search engine, and has a background in technology.

This goal of this blog is to find interesting stories and photos in the archives of the Times-Dispatch, and make them available for the public to see. The RTD archives are no longer open to the public, as they once were. We therefore would like to give the public as much access to things that we find there as we can.

If you have suggestions on what subjects we might want to look for in the archives, please pass them on! This blog is for you!

Both the Richmond Times-Dispatch and Richmond News Leader staffed Richmond races with multiple photographers. Maybe she can help. She should have access to both photo archives.

Also, Steve Helber for many years has been chief photographer for the AP Virginia bureau out of Richmond. I still see his name pop up on photos from Martinsville and Richmond. He used to have a crew of sometimes as many as 8 photogs at Richmond races.