Author Jim Vieira who along with co-author Hugh Newman has written a new book, Giants on Record: America’s Hidden History, Secrets in the Mounds and the Smithsonian Files. He is a stonemason, researcher and writer. As well as exploring and writing about the stone sites of New England, he has collated over 1,500 newspapers and scholarly accounts of giant skeletons being found in North America and around the world. He has written for Ancient American magazines, the Heretic (UK) and local Massachusetts newspapers. In 2012 he created the online blog, The Daily Giant, which showcased a giant report every day for nearly two years. He is the star of the History Channel TV shows, Search for the Lost Giants (2014) and Roanoke: Search for the Lost Colony (2015) with his brother Bill. He lives in Ashfield Massachusetts.