Jessie Haas

Jessie Haas grew up in Westminster, Vermont, on a farm once owned by a member of Azariah Wright's militia, in a farmhouse built by a great-uncle of Benjamin Hall, the eastern Vermont historian. A graduate of Wellesley, she is the award-winning autor of forty-two books for children and adults including Revolutionary Westminster and Westminster, Vermont, 1738-2000: Township Number One. She is current president of the Westminster Historical Society, lectures frequently about the Massacre, and was interviewed extensively for the Ethan Allen Homestead's film biography Frontier & Flowers: The Story of Frances Montresor Brush Buchanan Allen Penniman. Haas and husband Michael J. Daley have lived in a 450-square-foot, off-grid cabin next to the family farm for over forty years. She is an equestrian, cook, knitter, environmental journalist, and political activist.