March 16, 2027

Greg Starbuck holds Bachelor’s Degrees in History (1982) and Business Management (1983) from Virginia Tech and Master’s Degrees in History (2014) and Non-Profit Leadership (2019) from the University of Lynchburg.

Following graduation from college he worked at the National Colonial Farm in Accokeek, MD (1984) and Old Fort Jackson in Savannah, GA (1985) as a Historical Interpreter. From 1988 to 1996 he worked as an Exhibits Technician for the Virginia Aquarium. In 1996, he became the Site Manager of Old Fort Jackson in Savannah, Georgia, a second system fort used during the Civil War to defend the Savannah River.

From 2000-2002 he served as the first Director of Education at the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia. Since 2002 he has served as Executive Director for Historic Sandusky, a historic house museum in Lynchburg, Virginia that served as General David Hunter’s headquarters during the Battle of Lynchburg.

In 2005 he led a coalition of regional tourism partners in establishing the Hunter’s Raid Civil War Trail, part of the Civil War Trails system in Virginia. In 2010 he wrote and directed Hunter’s Raid: Defending Hearth & Home, a documentary film on the campaign, a film which won three regional Emmy awards in 2011. In 2026 he wrote and directed a follow up documentary Lynchburg at War: The Home Front.