Wayne Tanguay is the son of a 1930s era Federal Game Warden who patrolled the remote areas of the entire State of Maine using aircraft with pontoons to get to places inaccessible by vehicle. Although raised in the Southern United States, Wayne visited relatives in the West Newfield, Maine every year.

In the mid-1960s, his parents retired to Newfield, Maine. He then attended the University of Maine at Orono, graduating in 1969. He and his wife finally relocated from Massachusetts to Scarborough, Maine, in 1973. He is a boating enthusiast and an avid outdoorsman who has fished and hunted in the State of Maine since the early 1970s. He has spent a lot of time hunting out of a camp in Etna, Maine, and, more recently, a camp located in the Moxie Gore area. The hunting experiences at both camps inspired this story.