Roots Revisited

Steven Verrier (BA, BEd, MA, MA) has worked as a high school teacher, a college instructor, an editor, and a musician. His publications include Raising a Child to Be Bilingual and Bicultural (2003), Class Struggle: Journal of a Teacher In Up to His Ears (2011), and The Two-Party Trap: Recipe for Dysfunction in American Politics (2022). P. David Marshall, PhD, has published many scholarly books including Celebrity and Power (2014), Contemporary Publics (2015), Celebrity Persona Pandemic (2016), and Persona Studies (2020). More recently, David served as General Editor for Bloomsbury's six-volume Cultural History of Fame series (2025). David, an Emeritus Professor at Deakin University and Honorary professor at University of Nottingham-Ningbo (China), lives in New South Wales, Australia. David Riddell, MA, is Senior Archaeologist for SLR Consulting at Stony Point and part of a team concerned with the remediation of the Stony Point First Nation lands formerly occupied by the Canadian military. Archaeological publications can be found in Kewa Publication Online (Ontario Archaeological Society, London Chapter). Dave's archaeological perspective plays into various observations in Roots Revisited. He lives in Forest, Ontario.