Patricia M. Salmon is a Curator of History retired from the Staten Island Museum. A Staten Island resident for almost fifty years, Ms. Salmon was a Naturalist/Historian at Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve in that borough for eight years. She has authored the books "Realms of History: The Cemeteries of Staten Island;" "The Staten Island Ferry: A History;" "Murder & Mayhem on Staten Island;" and "Staten Island Slayings: Murderers and Mysteries of the Forgotten Borough." She is a consultant to the Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries of Staten Island and the Mud Lane Society for the Renaissance of Stapleton. An adjunct professor at Wagner College in Staten Island, she also is a guest lecturer at the College of Staten Island.