Michael J. Thorp joins Johnny Burke on WHNN

May 31, 2011

My summer vacation is underway as I go with my old buddy Johnny Burke on his annual “Shake Hands Across Michigan Tour” on 96.1 FM WHNN. I will be on the air with JB, and use my book, “The Great, Great Lakes Trivia Test” to do Michigan trivia. It’s the perfect around the campfire/grill/travel conversation [...]

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Ooops Correction

March 4, 2011

While I am collecting interesting stories of the Great Lakes, for my next book, the “GreatER, Great Lakes Trivia Test”, I am also working on correcting mistakes in the first book. Oscoda’s Dr. Dave Wright, a self proclaimed “boatnerd”, found a mistake. Whose name was on the Great Lakes freighter that sank on Lake Superior [...]

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Talking Michigan

February 23, 2011

I have been having a ball visiting people around the state and talking about my book, and Michigan. In January I spoke at the “Cabin Fever” program for the Friends of the East Tawas Library.  What a great group.  On February 19th I had the pleasure of  speaking to a gathering of the Royal Arch Masons of [...]

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