Edsel Burdge Jr., a Franklin County native, joined the Mennonite Church as a young adult. He taught for twelve years in various Mennonite schools and currently writes curriculum for Christian Light Education and edits the Conococheague Mennonist, a publication of the Mennonite Historical Association of the Cumberland Valley.
Samuel L. Horst is emeritus professor of history at Eastern Mennonite University where he taught for thirty-two years. He is the author of Mennonites in the Confederacy and coauthor of Conscience in Crisis.
