First Place winner in Humor category at recent Midwest Book Awards 

 Hitchhiking After Dark

Offbeat Stories from a Small Town

by Richard Hill

     A wry and irreverent collection of funny stories,  Hitchhiking After Dark offers a comical and  sometimes ludicrous look at growing up and working in small towns, mostly in northern Michigan. As a comedy of errors, it vividly portrays a mixed bag of zany characters and absurd everyday encounters. 

     With tongue in cheek, the author presents a broad assortment of stories and memoirs that both celebrate and satirize many of the thoroughly Midwestern aspects of small-town life. They are eccentric, sometimes outrageous, but always entertaining.

"... a fine collection, very highly recommended." -- Midwest Book Review

"Armed with this abundant sense of humor and keen observation, he weaves stories that are at times poignant and often laugh-out-loud funny." -- Barry Silverstein, ForeWord Reviews 

Humor/Satire/Memoir

   A few chapter titles:

•      Who Let The Cats Out?
•      The Mormons Are Coming
•      Six Feet Under
•      Beer, Brats, and Heavy Breathing
•      Yoopers Seize Lake Superior Ore Boat
•      Strange Brew 

 

               

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Lake Effect: A Deckhand's Journey on the Great Lakes Freighters

by Richard Hill

Great Lakes/ Memoir/ Maritime History 

Steamboats, Storms, and Sea Stories

     A deckhand's coming-of-age story of sailing the Great Lakes steamboats during the social and political turbulence of the early 1970s, Lake Effect is a vivid and memorable account, told in an entertaining narrative style, of life aboard the giant ore boats.

     The stories were drawn from the author's experiences as a deckhand sailing aboard  five Great Lakes freighters: four US Steel boats and the 1000-footer Columbia Star. He later attended the Great Lakes Maritime Academy as a deck cadet, where he trained to become a ship's officer. This humorous yet poignant memoir follows his voyage of self-discovery living and working aboard the lake ships.

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