against New Hampshire in ten sports during "Twin State" playoffs. Motorsport Vermont also has a few auto racing venues. The most popular of them is Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, Vermont. It is well known for its tight racing and has become well known in short track stock car racing. Other racing circuits include the USC sanctioned Bear Ridge Speedway, and the NASCAR sanctioned Devil's Bowl Speedway. Some NASCAR Cup drivers have come to Vermont circuits to compete against local weekly drivers such as Tony Stewart, Clint Bowyer, Kyle Busch, Kenny Wallace, Ken Schrader, and Christopher Bell. Kevin Lepage from Shelburne, Vermont is one of a few professional drivers from Vermont. Racing series in Vermont include NASCAR Whelen All-American Series, American Canadian Tour, and Vermont's own Tiger Sportsman Series. Residents The following were either born in Vermont or resided there for a substantial period during their lives and whose names are widely known. Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States Pearl S. Buck, author Jake Burton Carpenter, inventor of the snowboard Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States John Deere, founder of Deere & Company George Dewey, the only Admiral of the Navy in U.S. history John Dewey, philosopher, psychologist, and educator Stephen Douglas, 19th-century politician Carlton Fisk, Baseball Hall of Fame catcher James Fisk, financier Robert Frost, poet Richard Morris Hunt, architect Rudyard Kipling, author Bill McKibben, environmentalist Samuel Morey, inventor of the steam-powered paddle wheel boat Norman Rockwell, painter, author, and illustrator Bernie Sanders, politician and legislator Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian author and Soviet dissident Rudy Vallée, singer and actor Brigham Young, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints In fiction Vermont was also the home of Dick Loudon, Bob Newhart's character on the 1980s sitcom Newhart. All action supposedly took place in Vermont. Vermont was the home of Pollyanna and her Aunt Polly in the novel Pollyanna, later made into the 1960 Disney film starring Hayley Mills and Jane Wyman. In H. P. Lovecraft's The Whisperer in Darkness, Vermont is the home of folklorist Henry Akeley (and the uninhabited hills of Vermont serve as one of the earth bases of the extraterrestrial Mi-Go). Donna Tartt's novel The Secret History is a story set mostly in a fictitious town of Hampden, Vermont, and college of the same name, where several students conspire