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.
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