§8 About the Authors

RICHARD H. BLISS was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1920. He attended the Lincoln School in New York City and Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio. He was graduated from Oberlin and did graduate work at Western Reserve University and Cornell. He has taught in a two-room school in Vermont, at a private elementary boarding school in Lake Placid, N. Y., at Cornell University, Vassar College and Bennett College. He now owns and runs a school on a Vermont farm, where he lives with his wife Ann and sons Andrew and Jonathan.

PHYLLIS S. BUSCH, a teacher with a doctorate in Science Education, has taught school from kindergarten through graduate school. Her background includes work at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, public school teaching in New York City and instructing at New York University and Montclair (New Jersey) College. For three years she was the director of S P R U C E (Science Project Related to Upgrading Conservation Education), a program financed by E S E A, Title III, with its headquarters in Pine Plains. Mrs. Busch and her husband, Benjamin Busch, live in Stanfordville.

GRACE HUDSON HOYSRADT was graduated from Seymour Smith Academy and attended Northfield Seminary. After attending Columbia University, she was graduated from the Pratt Institute for Library Science. After two years' work as assistant librarian at the Madison, New Jersey, Public Library, she headed the Pequot Library in Southport, Connecticut and has recently retired after thirty-two years as Chief Librarian of the Franklin Branch of the Fast Orange, New Jersey, Public Library. Miss Hoysradt has a home in Pine Plains.

PAUL V. D. HOYSRADT attended Seymour Smith Academy and was graduated from the Mount Hermon School. He attended Columbia University and later taught in one-room district schools in Pleasant Plains, New York and North Sea, New York. At present a free-lance writer, he has worked for the Harry Lee papers in Riverhead and Huntington, New York, and the Rhinebeck Gazette.

MRS. ROBERT G. PALMATIER, née Lois K. Rogers, majored in biology at Alfred University. She came to Pine Plains in 1929 to teach at Seymour Smith Academy. In 1930 she married Mr. Palmatier, (now deceased), and is the mother of their three children, Robert Henry, Andrea Lois (Mrs. Robert Hughes) and William Dennis. Through the years, Mrs. Palmatier has continued her interest in botany and her studies of bird life and wildflowers. She is the Librarian of Pine Plains Central School and lives on Bethel Road in the Huntting House which she has restored.

LAWRENCE G. PAUL and his wife are members of the Appalachian Mountain Club and have a deep concern for the preservation of wilderness areas and of all natural things. Last year Mr. Paul was invited by the American Geographical Society to revise the section, "The Taconic Area,' for a new edition of The New York Walk Book and to contribute some notes on Stissing Mountain. Mr. Paul is a resident of North Lynbrook, New York.

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