Alexander Read Cronin Alexander Read Cronin was born in 1978 in Littleton, New Hampshire, just over the border of Vermont — a place that shaped his lifelong love of woods, water, and things with wheels. He grew up surrounded by nature and family, spending his early years hunting in Vermont and the Adirondacks, fishing in Lake Champlain, camping in the Boundary Waters, and tinkering with anything powered by an engine or a spark. Known to many as …