Events Calendar

Brody Cutter: Roaster and Barista at Cheboygan Coffee Roasters. Brody will be speaking of the small batch roasting process, and what it has been like as a young adult, relocating to Northern Michigan from the Seacoast area of New Hampshire, and helping to open a family business. 

Grab your friends with all that useless knowledge and come join the fun! Laid back atmosphere, stellar beer & Prizes for winners! All are welcome.

150th Anniversary of Mackinac National Park                 In 1875, President Grant signed a law designating about half of Mackinac Island as a national park. For the next 20 years, the soldiers of Fort Mackinac helped maintain and improve the park for island visitors. This presentation will cover why the park was created, how it operated from […]

Grab your friends with all that useless knowledge and come join the fun! Laid back atmosphere, stellar beer & Prizes for winners! All are welcome.

Paul Meneghini, MBA Manager, Community Engagement, Great Lakes Region Enbridge Energy Mr. Meneghini has over 30 years of experience with the past 21 years at Enbridge.  He holds a Civil Engineering degree from Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan and also a Masters in Business from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.  […]

Grab your friends with all that useless knowledge and come join the fun! Laid back atmosphere, stellar beer & Prizes for winners! All are welcome.

Helen Raica-Klotz teaches in the English department at Saginaw Valley State University. She’s also taught at a regional prison, a homeless shelter, an alternative high school—and any place else where she can find people with stories to tell. Her fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in various publications, including The MacGuffin, Porcupine Literary, Dunes Review, and Great Lakes Review.

Brian Surkan – Educating for Liberty Bio: Educated in Canadian public schools, Brian won the green card lottery in 1992 and continued his high-tech career in Silicon Valley. He left technology to pursue his childhood dream of becoming a middle school history teacher in 2002. After two decades of teaching a variety of age groups […]

 Jason Taylor is an economist, economic historian, and a professor at Central Michigan University. In addition to being published in academic journals his work has also been seen in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and the Detroit News. His new book is titled, “The Brew Deal: How Beer Helped Battle the Great Depression.” Topic: Economists […]

Robert E. Wright – AI & Higher Education Robert E. Wright is a Lecturer in Economics at Central Michigan University.  He is the (co)author or (co)editor of over two dozen major books, book series, and edited collections, including AIER’s The Best of Thomas Paine (2021) and Financial Exclusion (2019). He has also (co)authored numerous articles for important journals, including […]