Earl Arnett, a freelance writer who reported for the Baltimore Sun, is also a music entrepreneur and multimedia producer. Robert J. Brugger is the history and regional books editor at the Johns Hopkins University Press and the author of Maryland: A Middle Temperament, 1634-1980, also available from Johns Hopkins. Edward C. Papenfuse is the State Archivist and Commissioner of Land Patents at the Maryland State Archives. He is the author of several books and articles on Maryland history, including In Pursuit of Profit, a study of the Annapolis merchant community during the American Revolution, and A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature.