Duris is a freelance writer who lives in the central Massachusetts area.Gillian Jones is a staff photographer for The Berkshire Eagle. She was the chief photographer of the North Adams Transcript, a daily newspaper, for more than 20 years, until early 2014. Her work appears nationally through the The Associated Press. She also teaches photography courses at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and serves as an adviser to the school's weekly newspaper, The Beacon, where she got her start as a student photojournalist. Originally from Long Island, New York, she has lived in North Adams and has called the Berkshires her home since the early 1980s.