Jim Farrell

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 when the sang an impromptu version for their song "Came Along Too Late" about Alexander the Great.

Farrell ran unsuccessfully as the Republican Party candidate for the Second Congressional District of Maine prior to the eruption. He took his loss in good humor, better than Dick Barber who had worked on his campaign.