Sanford Emerson is a native Maine-iac and “boomer” who came of age in the 1960’s and still remembers most of it. He is a graduate of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, mostly through the efforts of his college sweetheart, who he credits with inducing him to actually study by using subtle hints and tempting promises. Two weeks after graduation they were married, even though she was “from away.” Returning to the real world, Sandy did a stretch in the Navy followed by a thirty-five-year law enforcement career in the mountains of western Maine, during which he wrote mostly non-fiction in the form of police reports, pre-sentence investigations and proposals to his superiors for improvements to the profession which went mostly nowhere.

These days Sandy lives in Wilton, Maine on a former christmas tree farm with his lovely and talented wife and a slightly psychotic cat who thinks he is a real numbskull. Oh, and he also runs a woodworking business in his spare time, but then nearly every old retiree in Maine does that.