Mark Bushnell worked for a dozen years as an editor for Vermont newspapers. Realizing that writers have more fun than editors, he began freelancing and since 2002 has written about Vermont history for the Rutland Herald, Barre-Montpelier Times Argus and VTDigger.com. He is the author of Hidden History of Vermont and Discover Vermont! The Vermont Life Guide to Exploring Our Rural Landscape, and was part of writing teams that wrote books about Lake Champlain and Vermont's bicentennial, and a biography of Howard Dean. He lives in Middlesex, Vermont, with his wife, Susan Clark, and son, Harrison.