New Book on the Way

When we were shut in, back in March 2020, I decided to work on the book I had been organizing for better than a year. I wasn’t sure I would ever actually write it, but had been gathering information. I started writing 5-7 hours every day, really pluggin at it;...

Book Tour

Doing another book tour this next week. I’ll be at the Manistee Book Expo, at the Ramsdell Center, tomorrow (Saturday August 11) till 4 pm… Then on Saturday August 18 I will be doing a book signing at Horizon Books, in Downtown Traverse City, from 2-4pm....

New book on Michigan soon to come!

My next book is in the final stages of production. The book, which is a history of the Thumb of Michigan as well as a travel guide to seeing one of Michigan’s peninsula’s on a peninsula. “Thumb Drive” the Drive on M-25-Michigan’s Blue...

The wrong iron in the story…a correction

Thanks to Rob Roy who noticed a mistake I made on page 221 of the Great, Great Lakes Trivia Test. I messed up Iron Mountain and Iron Wood. Rob noticed that I had said Tom Izzo and Steve Mariucci were residents Iron Wood. They were not, they are from Iron Mountain....

The American Civil War Years, The Michigan Experience

I am the host of ‘The American Civil War Years-The Michigan Experience. Here is a trailer for the show which has run on a number of PBS Stations in the Great Lakes Region. It was produced by Filmaker Rodney Brown and hosted by me. I think this is a very well...