Historic Silver Spring   (MD)  (Images of America)
Author Jerry A. McCoy is a public librarian for Washington, D.C., history special collections at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library's Washingtoniana Division and the Georgetown Branch Library's Peabody Room. A resident of downtown Silver Spring since 1992, McCoy founded the Silver Spring Historical Society in 1998 and co-produced with Final Cut Productions the 2002 local Emmy-nominated documentary Silver Spring: Story of an American Suburb. His monthly history column, "Silver Spring: Then & Again," appears in the Silver Spring Voice.