National Writers Series welcomes author Peter Heller

Wild Rivers, Wildfires and Disappearing Wives

Ryan Sullivan

Board member

Steve Baumgartner

Steve Baumgartner retired from a 30-year career in international business and his family moved to Traverse City in 2014.  During his pre-retirement career, Steve worked as CEO, president, or executive vice president in four multinational corporations: printing/publishing (RR Donnely & Sons),  Health Care (Baxter and New Practices), pharmaceuticals (Rhone-Poulenc Rorer), and telecommunications (Telegroup).  Upon retirement, […]

National Writers Series Welcomes Author Steve Luxenberg

Author Next Door: Peter Damm

by Erin Evans One morning, Peter Damm was taken by his mother to get his tooth pulled— already a dreadful enough ordeal, especially considering the dentist’s tendency to treat pain like a mildly annoying fly on the wall. Worse, his mother surprised him with a visit to the doctor to get a polio shot the […]