THE GOOD, THE BAD and THE UGLY

A Grosse Pointe 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 

 

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

with Osama bin Laden

A Vigilante Accountant

Four Months of Silence

An Adventure into Psychotherapy

The Quiet Erasure of American Beer Families

Future chapters coming in March 2026

 “From Beer to the Boardroom — Good Work if You Can Get It”

The Masco Appointment

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

“Rooms for Reinvention”

Hotel Varennes

“The Years this Book was Put on Trial”

Attempted Silence

“Four Months of Silence”

The Joann Powers Story – A Senior Living Facility Turned Prison – Part Two