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Jerry D. Corbin — Media & Interviews
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Discover The Family GoldPress & media kit
PRESS & MEDIA KIT
Existing site background, book context, and image previews for coverage planning.
Author & book resources
Short bio
Jerry D. Corbin is an author, radio host, storyteller, and creator of Building Memories on WXED 107.3 FM in Pennsylvania. His work explores storytelling, family legacy, resilience, history, and community.
Extended bio
Jerry D. Corbin is an author, radio host, storyteller, and creator of Building Memories on WXED 107.3 FM in Pennsylvania. His work explores storytelling, family legacy, resilience, history, and community. His novel The Family Gold draws on family history, historical events, and fiction to explore the enduring mystery of missing Confederate gold. Jerry wrote and produced The Boys of Vietnam & All Veterans, a two-hour radio tribute built around 15 veteran interviews and 20 Vietnam-era songs.
Book description
The Family Gold is a historical family mystery inspired by family history, historical events, and the enduring question surrounding the missing Confederate treasury. It is fiction—not a claim to have solved the fate of the missing gold.
Official site · BUY THE FAMILY GOLD · Request image or map resources
Historical context
The question behind the novel.
The Family Gold draws from the enduring mystery surrounding the missing Confederate treasury, along with family history and historical events. It is historical fiction, not a claim to have resolved the historical record.
Evergreen context
Why This Story Now?
Unresolved questions, family stories, treasure, Civil War history, and fiction continue to meet wherever a legend outlives the people who first told it. The Family Gold considers the persistence of those stories across generations.
Historical resources
Research links for background
Site-curated context separates cited history from legend and fiction. Canonical URLs are shown for editors and producers.
- Treasury maphttps://jerrycorbin.com/confederate-gold/treasury-map
- Limited context timelinehttps://jerrycorbin.com/confederate-gold/timeline
- Sources and further readinghttps://jerrycorbin.com/confederate-gold/sources
- Confederate gold history centerhttps://jerrycorbin.com/confederate-gold
- The Family Goldhttps://jerrycorbin.com/the-family-gold
For hosts & editors
Suggested Conversation Topics
Starting points, not certainty.
Why Missing Confederate Gold Still Fascinates People
Turning a Family Story Into Historical Fiction
Fact vs. Legend in The Family Gold
Following the Confederate Treasury Route
How genealogy can open a path into historical storytelling
Why family legends endure when the record remains incomplete
Radio background includes Building Memories on WXED 107.3 FM, The Boys of Vietnam & All Veterans, and a published conversation with Pearl Harbor survivor Joseph Gasper.
A historical family mystery
The Family Gold
A family mystery wrapped inside one of the Civil War's most enduring treasure stories.
“The Family Gold is a very difficult book to put down. The writing style is engaging; Corbin has kept it light and to the point, and the pages fly by. He has done a great deal of research.”
John Davies · Exceedingly Interesting Story
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