Ronald H. Epp Ph.D. is the author of Creating Acadia National Park : the Biography of George Bucknam Dorr. It was published in 2016 by Friends of Acadia during the celebratory centennials of Acadia National Park and the National Park Service. Epp has given scores of lectures on the Father of Acadia at bookstores, libraries, historical societies, and museums.

His teaching appointments included the State University of New York at Buffalo, the U.S.Naval Academy, the University of Memphis, and the University of Hartford where he served as Director of Libraries.

He and his late wife Elizabeth have been seasonal residents of MDI since 1973. They enthusiastically hiked its trails and became avid supporters of Friends of Acadia from whom Ron received in July 2017 the inaugural FOA Preservation Award. He is a member of the Jesup Memorial Library Capital Campaign Honorary Committee.

More recently Epp deepened public understanding of Dorr's upbringing in Massachusetts by further researching for the Arnold Arboretum his Jamaica Plain childhood and the influence of family homes in the Berkshires for audiences at the Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum in Lenox.

Epp's talk at the Jesup will focus on the excitement of discovering six concealed manuscript collections now part of the Dorr Research Archive.