JERRY McCOY
Chief Historical Consultant

Jerry is founder and president of the Silver Spring Historical Society, whose mission is to create and promote awareness and appreciation of Silver Spring's heritage through sponsorship of educational activities and the preservation and protection of historical sites, structures, artifacts and archives.

He holds a B.A. in Visual Communications from The American University and a M.A. in Library Science from The Catholic University of America. Jerry is a librarian/archivist with the District of Columbia Public Library's Washingtoniana Division of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library and the Peabody Room at DCPL's Georgetown Branch Library. He lives with his wife Nan in a 1921 bungalow on Thayer Avenue in downtown Silver Spring.

McCoy was responsible for locating and having conserved, through partnership with the Friends of the Silver Spring Library and wide-spread community support, artist Nicolai Cikovsky's 1937 New Deal mural The Old Tavern. Originally installed in the Silver Spring Post Office, the 16 ft. long oil-on-canvas painting was rededicated in 1997 and hangs in the Silver Spring Library. In 1999 he successfully organized the centennial celebration of the Silver Spring Post Office, designing a pictorial philatelic U.S. Postal Service cancellation. He is a contributing editor to production of the Silver Spring Library's annual Vintage Silver Spring Calendar, which utilizes vintage images of Silver Spring, as well as columnist of Silver Spring: Then & Again, a monthly history feature in the Silver Spring Voice.