Name Tom Langmyer Role Author | Education Grove City College | |
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Books Lake Erie History and Views | ||
Tom Langmyer is an author and broadcast executive. He is currently Vice President, News/Talk/Sports Radio Programming for E. W. Scripps Company and also serves at Vice President and General Manager of Scripps' Milwaukee radio stations WTMJ (AM) and WKTI. Langmyer joined Scripps in 2013. He previously was Vice President and General Manager of WGN (AM) in Chicago and KMOX (AM) in St. Louis. He also served as National VP, News/Talk Formats for CBS Radio.
Great Lakes Author
Langmyer's book, Lake Erie: History and Views was published in 2010. The 312-page hardcover book was written to educate readers on the history of Lake Erie and the surrounding region. The account combines narration, factual summaries, historic photographs, engravings, maps, and antique postcards from Langmyer's collection as well as current photographs. Starting with the creation of Lake Erie during the Ice Age, the story describes the lake's discovery by Europeans, the battles for its control, how people settled and developed the region around the lake, and how the population grew along its shores. The "Circle of Cities and Towns" group of chapters, covers the history of most municipalities around the lake. The reader is also taken behind the scenes aboard a 1,000-foot lakeboat, the Walter J. McCarthy Jr., on a journey up the Great Lakes.