Tom Layton

Tom Layton has over 50 years of journalistic experience with newspapers in South Carolina and as print editor for the international Christian relief organization Samaritan’s Purse. Raised in Anderson, SC, he graduated from the University of Missouri, and now resides in Boone, NC. He was glad to be invited to work on this book with Mike Hembree, his colleague at The Greenville News. URL's are not allowed in this bio, but you can read more of his work by googling Stoneman Gazette (a Civil War newspaper), LeContest (tracking the most relentless climbers of Mount Le Conte), or TomLayton(dot)blogspot (personal perspectives). PHOTO: At Little Cliff Top on Mount Le Conte, near the campsite used by the 1924 federal national park commission (Photo by Frank Marsh).