Bruce Teeple is a local historian, speaker, and columnist for the Centre Daily Times. A graduate of Penn State in history and political science, he served as curator for the Aaronsburg Historical Museum for nineteen years. He gives talks on central Pennsylvania’s history (including the Underground Railroad, Native Americans, textile history, and Pennsylvania Germans) before school, scout and social groups. The Centre County Historical Society, in 2002, awarded Teeple for his efforts in promoting local history. Since 2004, Teeple has served on the American Association for State and Local History’s Small Museums Committee. He has delivered papers before the Small Museums Association, the AASLH national conference, and numerous county historical societies. For several years he has served both as a state judge for the National History Day in Pennsylvania competition and as a reviewer for the History Channel’s Save Our History grant program. He edited and co-authored Glimpses of the Past in 1994 and In Schadde vun Rundkopp (In the Shadow of Roundtop) in 1999. Teeple is currently at work on a book: As Good as a Handshake: the Farringtons and the Political Culture of Moonshine in Central Pennsylvania.