S Ardis AbbottDr. S. Ardis Abbott is municipal historian for Vernon and museum director for the Vernon Historical Society. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on the woolen textile industry in Rockville. Reference librarian Jean A. Luddy is a high school media speialist, past president of the Vernon Historical Society, and current chairman of the Education Committee. The authors have previously collaborated on the publication of Vernon and Historic Rockville, a pictorial history of these two separate communities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Read More Read Less