David L. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Communication at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. Academically, his focus is on visual communication aesthetics and methods, including the higher potentials of television. He enjoyed a twenty-year career in broadcast television as a multi-award-winning d...

David L. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Communication at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. Academically, his focus is on visual communication aesthetics and methods, including the higher potentials of television. He enjoyed a twenty-year career in broadcast television as a multi-award-winning documentary filmmaker and television producer. He exhibits and publishes fine art photography. Since 1967 Mr. Smith has been a student of Mesoamerican art, archaeology and anthropology with an emphasis on the ancient Maya. He took classes in these areas and conducted research at the primary sites featured in the story.