Edward "Ted" McClelland - Author

Ted McClelland makes the 10,000-mile Great Lakes Circle Tour to answer a burning question: "Is there a Great Lakes culture, and if so what is it?"

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It takes a combination of arrogance and denial to believe that you can beat the races. This fits perfectly with the egocentric fantasyland most of us over-30 single guys inhabit.

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Edward Robert McClelland (pictured left, with Lovro Milos, deckhand on the Joseph L. Block) is the author of Horseplayers: Life at the Track, a memoir of a year spent at the races, and The Third Coast, a Great Lakes travelogue to be published next winter by Chicago Review Press.

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