Marquette Regional History Center presents: Lunch with the History People – featuring Tyler Tichelaar on June 29th
Aren’t there a million questions you have about historic buildings, legendary people, “what are those ruins” and on and on. We can’t guarantee you’ll get all the answers but you’ll have fun learning more about local history. So bring your bag lunch at 12:00 pm to the History Center on a given day each month during the summer. For the month of June, we are pleased
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Marquette Regional History Center presents: Lunch with the History People – featuring Tyler Tichelaar on June 29th
Aren’t there a million questions you have about historic buildings, legendary people, “what are those ruins” and on and on. We can’t guarantee you’ll get all the answers but you’ll have fun learning more about local history. So bring your bag lunch at 12:00 pm to the History Center on a given day each month during the summer. For the month of June, we are pleased to bring you Tyler R. Tichelaar.
Tyler R. Tichelaar is a seventh generation resident of Marquette, Michigan. Since age eight, he wanted to be a writer, and at age sixteen, he began writing his first novel, which years later was published as The Only Thing That Lasts. He was inspired to write this novel and the many that followed, including The Marquette Trilogy, because of an early interest in local history, inspired by stories his grandfather told him. The important role that Upper Michigan has played in American history is central to his work.
Tyler has a Ph.D. in Literature from Western Michigan University, and Bachelor and Master’s Degrees in English from Northern Michigan University. He has served as the President of the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association, and he is the owner of his own publishing company, Marquette Fiction, and of Superior Book Productions, a professional editing and book design service.
In 2009, Tyler was awarded the Best Historical Fiction Award in the Reader Views Literary Awards for his novel Narrow Lives. He has since gone on to sponsor that award. In 2011, he received the Barb H. Kelly Historic Preservation Award from the Marquette Beautification and Restoration Committee for his book My Marquette and he received the Marquette County Arts Award that same year for an “Outstanding Writer.”
Tyler’s most recent works include Willpower, a play produced by the Marquette Regional History Center in September 2014 about Will Adams, Marquette’s Ossified Man; Haunted Marquette which explores more than forty places in Marquette that are allegedly haunted; and his upcoming novel When Teddy Came to Town about the 1913 Marquette libel trial, to be published this summer.
Today, Tyler continues to live in Marquette, where the roar of Lake Superior, mountains of snow, and sandstone architecture inspire his writing. He has many future books in the planning.
Visit Tyler at his websites: www.MarquetteFiction.com for more info about Tyler. Call 906. 226. 3571 for more info on the MRHC event, or visit marquettehistory.org
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