Don Mitchell was born in the Midwest and educated in southeastern Pennsylvania. After college he spent time in San Francisco (as a hippie), in Los Angeles (as a Screenwriter) and in Greece (as a hermit) before moving to Vermont in 1973. He has designed and built half a dozen buildings on his 150-acre sheep farm, including the passive solar house where he lives with his wife and children. A shepherd for over two decades, he has produced several thousand lambs and many tons of wool. From 1984 to 2009 Don taught courses at Middlebury College, primarily in creative writing-especially narrative fiction and writing for film-and environmental literature. Mitchell is the author of six other books including the novel Thumb Tripping, three "Upcountry" essay collections about life in Vermont, and a philosophic fable, The Souls of Lambs.Luke Powell, a resident of Middlebury, is best known for his landscape photography, especially for his dye-transfer process prints of people and places around the world. His images have been exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
