The authors are card-carrying members of the New England Moxie Congress, a loose-knit band of Moxie aficionados who revel in the Moxie mystique, collect related memorabilia, assemble for Moxie Festival parades and clambakes, and sometimes actually drink this "distinctly different" stuff. Dennis Sasseville, a sustainability specialist and author of several technical publications, resides in the hometown of the present brand owner, the Moxie Beverage Company. Merrill is the Grand Poobah of the Congress and lives a half block from where the iconic Moxie Bottle House stood before it was moved to the Moxie wing of the Matthews Museum of Maine Heritage. The museum archives provided most of the images for this book, supplemented with those from several private collections.