Jim Farrell was a retired SUNY Albany history professor and long time resident of Maine. While a professor, Farrell became famous or perhaps notorious for his newsletter To the Small-Endians which skewered PC academics. Charlie Storer had read some issues and was impressed by Farrell when he met him at the Trebor Mansion Inn after the Yellowstone Supervolcano eruption. Storer and the rest of Squirt Frog and the Evolving Tadpoles impressed Farrell, in turn, when they sang an impromptu version for their song "Came Along Too Late" about Alexander the Great.