Grace Gary is an architectural historian with degrees from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College and the University of Virginia. A veteran leader of more than 30 tours with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, she and fellow National Trust lecturer Dwight Young are the authors of Nemours:A Portrait of Alfred I. duPont’s House. Grace also authored two volumes in the Trust’s “Information” series and has served as director of the Trust’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Office in Pennsylvania. Grace most recently served as the executive director of Nemours Mansion and Gardens in Wilmington, Delaware, where she oversaw an award-winning, multi-year, $70 million restoration of the building and gardens.