Robert A. Geake is a public historian who has written about Rhode Island and New England's history since he was seventeen and submitting stories for the local newspaper in Coventry, Rhode Island. He is the author of fourteen books, including Keepers of the Bay: A History of the Narragansett Tribe; Native and New Americans; The New England Mariner Tradition; Colonial Curiosities; From Slaves to Soldiers: The 1st Rhode Island Regiment in the Revolutionary War; and New England's Citizen Soldiers: Mariners and Minutemen. He is a reenactor with the Second Rhode Island Regiment and a docent for Historic New England at its Rhode Island sites and currently serves as vice-president of the Cocumscussoc Association, which runs Smith's Castle Historic House Museum.