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