GROSSE POINTE AND BEYOND
An Unexpected Life: A Family Chronicle
Tom Van Lokeren
This is a living family chronicle, told in chapters. Each chapter records a real event, memory, or unresolved history. Together, they preserve a record that was never formally examined.
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
A Grosse Pointe Family Chronicle
This work is shared freely for the public record
It serves multiple purposes.
The chapters function as:
testimony, open letters, archives, whimsical/tragic accounts and documented accounts
Contents
Underlined chapters are live links
Died in a 45 Room Mansion on Lake St. Clair
Round & Round & Round You Go Sister ! Destiny —
Love At First Sight with a Chicago Bull
Leaving Many Prisoners Behind
Measure of Last Resort
Cruisin’ with Buddies
Just One Good Opportunity
Graft, Influence & the Public Record
Peche Island
Future chapters coming in February 2026
“A director is appointed and and a public figure is born….”
The Masco Appointment
“graft, influence and the public record”
Cronyism & Corruption
at GPP City Hall
HARBOR SPRINGS, MICHIGAN
“He was hunting for big game….”
Trolling from the Bluff up at Harbor Springs
“Based on interviews with several anonymous sources they were shocked at what went down”
Beer Brawlin’ in the Show Me State
“how could this have happened?”
The Building & The Betrayals – Part I
“Thank you brother that’s very kind of you”
Brotherly Love — The 71 Dollar Sendoff on 95 Lakeshore