Robert Terence Carter has been writing about Newmarket’s history since the late 1960s when he began a column after becoming editor of The Era, Newmarket’s weekly newspaper (founded in 1852). He founded the Newmarket Historical Society and continues as a director. For over fifteen years he has written the Society newsletter as well as a number of its papers on subjects ranging from the Rebellion of 1837 to Newmarket’s dead in the First World War. Carter is a long-time resident of Newmarket