Local Author Holds Book Signing at Dairy Bar

The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
December 23, 2009
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon

On Friday, December 18, Phil Miller, a resident of Thorp for the last 40 years, and a recently published author, stopped at the Thorp Dairy Bar to meet with the public and sign his new book, “The Journey.”  This memoir, covering the span of life, went through its first printing in November 2009 out of Publisher’s ExpressPress in Ladysmith, Wisconsin, one of the six publishers that wished to carry Miller’s book.  As his first official day of retirement, Miller spent the day at the local café, greeting friends from the area, all of whom stopped to get a signed copy of his memoir.
 
Miller goes through his time as a pilot, entrepreneur, manufacturer, salesman, private detective, underworld operative, along with his experiences in the Korean War and with cancer in his book, even giving people from Thorp—people who have known him for an exceptional amount of time—the opportunity to get to see him in a whole new light.  “I wrote it for my granddaughter,” Miller said.  “She told me that before I croak, I better write it all down.”
 
Miller dedicated his book to his “two angels in heaven; my wife, Joan Miller, and my granddaughter, Alexandra Voros; and to my angels here on earth, my daughters, Catherine and Suzanne, son-in-law, John, and grandchildren Caitlin, Cortni, Hannah and Neil.”
 
In the photo is Phil Miller, signing a copy of his newly published memoir, “The Journey,” for one of the many individuals who stopped to congratulate him on his latest accomplishment.  The Dairy Bar Café was the first of many book-signing tour stops for Miller. The tour will take him around the country, including Montana and Florida.