Wayne D. King

Writer, artist, businessman, outdoorsman, Iroquois, activist and recovering politician; Wayne King put himself through college as a guide in the White Mountains. In 1983 he was elected to the NH House of Representatives and served for three terms before being elected to the Senate where he served for another three terms. In 1994 he was the Democratic nominee for Governor. He is also the founder of The Electronic Community a group of social entrepreneurs working on social and development issues in West Africa on behalf of the Ford Foundation, The World Bank and other philanthropic sponsors. He has also been Publisher of Heart of NH Magazine, and, most recently, CEO and President of MOP Environmental Solutions, Inc..

Prior to writing “Sacred Trust”, King published three other books: “Washday” (2009) – a photographic homage to the washline; “Asquamchumaukee - Place of Mountain Waters” a Photographic Ramble Through the Baker River Valley of New Hampshire; and, Creating Electronic Communities(1998), A Guide to Accessing and Utilizing the Internet" Authors: Wayne D. King, Chidi Nwachukwu and Philip “Kip” Bates III.

King’s most recent book, “Sacred Trust”, A vicarious, high voltage adventure to stop a private powerline has been published on Amazon.com as an ebook with the paper edition due soon.

Described by one reader as "The Monkey Wrench Gang Meets the Third Industrial Revolution" the book is a fictional account of a fight to stop a powerline proposed by a private consortium, employing creative civil disobedience in the traditions of Alinsky, Thoreau and King.

In the book, Sasha Brandt, an Iroquois woman from Canada who travels with her companion, a white wolf named Cochise, meets Daniel Roy, a guide and outdoorsman while hiking the Mahoosuc Range of the Appalachian Trail. The two find themselves unexpectedly camping together on Lake Umbagog with a group of unlikely compatriots including a former olympic paddler, a deer farmer, a retired spook who was the first US victim of Lyme disease and an iconoclast named Thomas (just Thomas) who lives in multiple backwoods abodes in the Great North Woods and rides a moose named Metallak. The campsite itself is said to have been frequented by the Indian medicine woman Moll Ockett in the early days of the American Republic.

They find, in short order, that they have one very important thing in common - a deep concern about a proposed private power transmission line proposed to transport electricity from Canada to the toney suburbs of Boston, New York, Connecticut, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.

Together they embark on a campaign of civil disobedience that would make Thoreau, Alinsky and Dr. King proud.

Wayne King lives in Bath, New Hampshire, after 35 years with his late wife Alice in their home on Stinson Brook in Rumney. Their son Zachary lives in Colorado with his partner Lauren.

King holds a BS Degree in Environmental Conservation and a Masters Degree in Earth and Space Science Education from the University of New Hampshire, Durham.