![]() ![]() In Torn in Two the great Lakes historian recreates the circumstances surrounding the terrible storm of November 29, 1966, that broke the mighty freighter in half, sending twenty-five of the Morrell’s twenty-nine-man crew to their deaths and consigning the surviving four to the freezing raft where all but Hale would perish. This is life-and-death drama on the inland sea as only Michael Schumacher can tell it. The boat would not be reported missing for another twenty-seven hours and by the time the life raft was found, Dennis Hale would remain as the sole survivor of the wreck of the Daniel J. Seventy-two hours later, Hale would find himself clinging to a life raft alongside the frozen bodies of his crewmates in the violent waves of Lake Huron. ![]() The twenty-six-year-old watchman had, quite literally, missed the boat-which meant scrambling to rejoin the Morrell at its next stop or forfeiting a good chunk of his pay package. ![]() Morrell heading out to open waters, a 600-foot freighter that had plied the waters for sixty years, carrying ore from Minnesota’s Iron Range to steel firms around the Great Lakes. Dennis Hale reached the dock just in time to see the Daniel J. ![]()
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![]() In his early 40s, passive good guy Miles Roby, the son of Francine's husband's long-dead mistress, seems helpless to escape his virtual enslavement as longtime proprietor of the Whiting-owned Empire Grill, the town's most popular eatery, which Francine has promised to leave him when she dies. Wealthy, controlling matriarch Francine Whiting lives in an incongruous Spanish-style mansion across the river from smalltown Empire Falls, dominated by a long-vacant textile mill and shirt factory, once the center of her husband's family's thriving manufacturing dominion. 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It hooked me, and I took to main-lining novels and working the libraries like an eight-year-old junky looking to score his next fix. I read my first novel, Cujo, in the third grade. Once I outgrew the newspaper, she moved on to Golden Books. My Mom started by reading the newspaper to me, ensuring I was up to speed on current events. ![]() ![]() As an only child, my parents were able to devote their existences to catering to my every whim. I took on this mortal coil in 1976 in Omaha, NE. 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