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Rich Hill lives along the shore of Lake Superior in Michigan's Eastern Upper Peninsula. He graduated from Northern Michigan University with a BFA in Art and Design with a concentration in furniture design. Thus far, he has published three books: Lake Effect: A Deckhand's Journey on the Great Lakes Freighters, Hitchhiking After .... more
Rich Hill lives along the shore of Lake Superior in Michigan's Eastern Upper Peninsula. He graduated from Northern Michigan University with a BFA in Art and Design with a concentration in furniture design. Thus far, he has published three books: Lake Effect: A Deckhand's Journey on the Great Lakes Freighters, Hitchhiking After Dark: Offbeat Stories from a Small Town (1st place winner in humor at the Midwest Book Awards), Lost in the Woods: Building a Life Up North, and most recently West of the River, North of the Bridge: Stories from Michigan's U.P.
Richard Hill's Projects
"Lost in the Woods: Building a Life Up North"
Rich and Judy Hill had a dream: to build a simple handcrafted log home in Michigan's Upper Peninsula... more
Hitchhiking After Dark: Offbeat Stories from a Small Town
A wry and irreverent collection of stories, "Hitchhiking After Dark" offers a comical and somet... more
Lake Effect: A Deckhand's Journey on the Great Lakes Freighters
A deckhand's coming-of-age story of sailing the Great Lakes steamboats during the social and po... more
West of the River, North of the Bridge: Stories from Michigan's U.P.
In trying to define Michigan's Upper Peninsula (the U.P.) and its people, words like grit, soli... more