Mary Knapp has been affiliated with the Merchant's House Museum since 1995. She is the author of An Old Merchant's House: Life at Home in New York City, 1835-65 (Girandole Books, 2012) and co-author with her husband, Herb, of One Potato, Two Potato: The Folklore of American Children (
W.W. Norton, 1976) and Red, White, and Blue Paradise (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984), a memoir of the couple's years living and teaching in the Panama Canal Zone. She lives in New York City and blogs at
www.hintsandechoes.wordpress.com.
