Debra Goodrich Bisel

Debra Goodrich is cohost of Around Kansas, a weekly TV show and is the resident historian at Historic Topeka Cemetery. She grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and North Carolina. She made various forays into publishing magazines, including the Kansas Journal of Military History. She has been a guest on C-SPAN, numerous radio talk shows, and has appeared in many documentaries on various history topics. Currently, she appears on The Gunslingers on the American Heroes Channel. She is past president of the Shawnee County (KS) Historical Society and is a president of the Civil War Roundtable of Eastern Kansas. The Road to Valhalla (Lone Chimney Films) is the 2015 recipient of the Wrangler award for best documentary. Deb is a talking head and advisor on the film. Deb is a sought-after public speaker. Contact her at author.debgoodrich@gmail.com. Deb is producing a documentary film on a plesiosaur discovered in Logan County, KS, during the Indian Wars. Thof's Dragon tells the story of Theophilus Turner and his beast and will be screened December, 2017.