Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
“Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms when they left fully loaded for …” this Ohio city, sometimes termed the “Mistake on the Lake.”
Cleveland
Irreplaceable
Beyonce
Known as the “Hick from French Lick,” this basketball legend starred at Indiana State and later for the Boston Celtics.
Larry Bird
Featuring iconic red sinks and blue toilets, this Manistee location was our place to stay for decades.
Lake Shore Motel
Mike and his partner Craig Frymier went undefeated and won the conference championship in this high school sport in 1984?
Tennis
“The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake, they call” this, an Ojibwe term for Lake Superior.
Gitche Gumee
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
Taylor Swift
Dubbed the “King of Pop,” this Gary, Indiana native and singer of “Billy Jean” and “Beat It” is one of the best-selling musical artists of all time with over 500 million records sold.
Michael Jackson
Name of our beach of choice in Manistee, though we occasionally visited 5th Avenue Beach.
1st Street Beach
In 1989, Mike rode in the back of a pickup truck from Crawfordsville, Indiana to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to watch this English band “Paint It Black.”
Rolling Stones
This Great Lake, “steams like a young man’s dreams, its islands and bays are for sportsmen.”
Lake Michigan
Perfect
Ed Sheeran
An Indianapolis native and Ball State graduate, this well-known television personality hosted over 6,000 episodes of the Late Show from 1982 and 2015.
David Letterman
Sometimes open / sometimes closed, this Manistee ice cream parlor served as a frequent after-dinner destination.
House of Flavors
Young Mike was hit by a car, prompting his brother to inform their mother, “Hey Mom, Mike’s dead!” Turns out he just broke this upper leg bone.
Femur
Memorial services were held at the Maritime Sailors’ Cathedral in this midwestern city?
Detroit
Disturbia
Rihanna
“Welcome To The Jungle,” this lead singer of the rock band, Guns N’ Roses, was born in Lafayette, Indiana.
Axl Rose
Coming in hot, John Gensic broke this person’s arm during a game of sand volleyball.
Dawn Maugel
As a kid, Mike got his front teeth knocked out by this at Lima-Brighton.
Baseball
“The searchers all say they’d have made … " this place of safety, "if they’d put 15 more miles behind her.”
Whitefish Bay
Don't Speak
No Doubt (Gwen Stefani)
Born in Marion and raised in Fairmount, Indiana, this actor became one of the most influential figures of the 1950s for his roles in Rebel Without a Cause and East of Eden.
James Dean
When the conversation turned to dune grass, this Manistee legend offered the sage advice to “Roll it up and smoke it.”
Mom / Grandma / Pat
Released in 2019, this is the only Post Malone song that Mike knows and is also his favorite.
Circles