A. Parker Burroughs has been a newspaper writer and editor for more than four decades and is the retired executive editor of the Observer-Reporter in Washington, Pennsylvania. He has worked as a consultant to newspapers abroad and has taught writing at Bethany College. He is the editor of "200 Years: Our History Through the Pages of the Observer-Reporter" and author of "Enter, With Torches: Recollections of a Grumpy Old Editor." He is a member of the Washington County Historical Society.