Dr. Clayton E. Ray

146 Hudson Road

Falmouth, VA  22405-3563

540-373-7807
 buick292003@yahoo.com

 

Cathy L. Wegener, CPRP

 

Superintendent of Interpretive

Services

Berks County Heritage Center

2201 Tulpehocken Road

Wyomissing, PA  19610

610-374-8839 office

610-373-7049 (fax)
cwegener@countyofberks.com

 

Clayton E. Ray was born in a farming community in central Indiana. He holds Geology degrees from Harvard University (A.B., 1955, A.M., 1958, Ph.D., 1962), and taught at the University of Florida, Gainesville, while serving as Assistant Curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History. In 1963, he relocated to the Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., retiring as curator emeritus in 1994.  He continues to keep a hand in his past career through studying remains of ancient animals at the Smithsonian, while living in the past on an old farm near Fredericksburg, VA, surrounded by his family, Suffolk draft horses, horse-drawn equipment (including two Gruber Wagons), and a variety of antique tools, many of which he uses.  

Dr. Ray is available for talks, discussion groups or chats, and book signings.

Topics:

  1. Wagon-Making in the United States

  2. The Gruber Wagon Works
  3. Horse-powered farming today
  4. The role of an extinct paleontological curator

Terms:

  1. For speaking engagements, the author requests reimbursement for travel expenses.

  2. An honorarium is appreciated whenever possible.

  3. Invitations to speak should be extended to the visiting author.

  4. The author's book, published by McDonald & Woodward, will be available on site, either through the visiting author or the sponsoring organization; contact us at 1-800-233-8787 for further information about buying our books.

 

Cathy L. Wegener is  a supporting author with Clayton Ray for the McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company book: Wagon – Making in the United States During the Late 19th through Mid-20th Centuries - A Study of the Gruber Wagon Works at Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania.  The book released in October 2005, includes the thesis written by Paul A. Kube on the Gruber Wagon Works.  With Mr. Ray’s untiring efforts and dedication to the project, a comprehensive study of wagon manufacturing has been presented.

Cathy has been the Superintendent of Interpretive Services for the Berks County Parks & Recreation Department since 1982.  She is responsible for the operation, programs and facilities at the Berks County Heritage Center, which includes the Gruber Wagon Works and C. Howard Hiester Canal Center.  She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the Pennsylvania State University in Parks & Recreation in 1981 and has served as the President of the Berks County Museum Council, President of the Pennsylvania Parks & Recreation Society Community Branch, and is currently a Board member of the Reading and Berks County Visitors Bureau.

Mrs. Wegener is available for illustrated talks, discussion groups or chats, and book signings.

Topics:

  1. The Gruber Wagon Works

  2. The Berks County Heritage Center
  3. Berks County Parks & Recreation Department Facilities and Programs

Terms:

  1. For speaking engagements, the author requests reimbursement for travel expenses.

  2. An honorarium is appreciated whenever possible, and will be donated to the preservation of the Gruber Wagon Works..

  3. Invitations to speak should be extended to the visiting author.

  4. Wagon-Making in the United States..., published by McDonald & Woodward, and The Gruber Wagon Works: The Place Where Time Stood Still, published by the Society for the Preservation of the Gruber Wagon Works, will be available for sale on site, either through the visiting author or the sponsoring organization. Contact us at 1-800-233-8787 for further information about buying either book.