Andy Flynn
Andy Flynn is an author and publisher living in Saranac Lake, N.Y. He currently operates Hungry Bear Publishing with his wife, Dawn, publishing the Meet the Town community guides. Andy is the author of the six-volume Adirondack Attic book series and producer of the Adirondack Attic Radio Show on North Country Public Radio. In 2008, he was awarded a Certificate of Commendation from the Upstate History Alliance (now Museumwise) for the Adirondack Attic History Project, which he founded in 2003 to actively preserve Adirondack history by collecting artifact-based, human-interest stories with curators at the Adirondack Museum. See a more in-depth bio here.
Caperton Tissot
Caperton Tissot comes to the field of writing via a career in health care, pottery, environmental politics, and published cultural commentary. Caperton and her husband live in Saranac Lake, N.Y., where she combines active outdoor exploration with a passion for writing about history, memoirs and social commentary. Published works include magazine and newspaper articles, a book, History between the Lines: Women’s Lives and Saranac Lake Customs, and an upcoming book, Adirondack Ice: a Cultural and Natural History, to be released in October 2010.
Randy Lewis
Randy Lewis has been living in the Adirondacks since 1972, moving to the Saranac Lake region right after an almost three-year stint living in northern Germany. She is a poet and essayist, and an amateur naturalist, components reflected in the essays and poems in her award-winning book, Actively Adirondack: Reflection on Mountain Life in the 21st Century. She teaches writing part time at North Country Community College, writes her “Actively Adirondack” column for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, and works with the non-profit organization Creative Healing Connections. Randy’s husband, Neil Surprenant, recently published Paul Smith’s Adirondack Hotel and College through Arcadia Publishing, one of their Images of America series. After more than 30 years, the couple still lives in Paul Smiths, next to the St. Regis River, shoveling their way out after every winter storm. See a more in-depth bio here.
Peter Crowley
Peter Crowley is the managing editor of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, which, based in Saranac Lake, is the only daily newspaper published in the Adirondacks. The son of an English professor and a French teacher, he grew up in Alabama and caught the journalism bug covering arts and entertainment for his college paper in Toronto. He got his professional start at the Lake Placid News and the Enterprise, where he won several awards among small New York papers. He later worked in California, covering crime for a year at the Gilroy Dispatch, and returned to the town he calls home and his current job in 2004. He loves his two-block commute to work from the home he shares with his wife and two daughters. He also writes compulsively about music on the Ten Dollar Radio Show blog (www.tendollarradioshow.com).