ABOUT

In his youth, writer producer Michael Grace developed a lifelong interest in travel and social history, resulting in Cruising The Past.

• Michael’s first sea voyage was when he was nine. He traveled with his family and as a student during the 1950s and 1960s during the heyday of liners, classic cruise ships, and streamlined named trains in the USA and internationally.
• During this time, Michael began collecting travel memorabilia, and books, studying and researching all aspects of travel during the period from the late 1940s into the early 1970s, when it all changed with the introduction of the Boeing 747 and the end of glamours and leisurely travel by ship and train.
• All this interest and experience made Michael an authority (historian) on maritime and travel history during this period, plus the 1930s. Having visited over 53 countries and sailed on over 40 ships being educated in the UK and the Middle East gave him an international background experience.

Michael has also been active in politics. Along with The Daily Kos, he was a party to a significant decision for bloggers and free speech rights. Both had been sued through the FEC, Kos by a conservative blogger, and Michel by Congresswoman Mary Bono.

• The 2007 U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) found that political blogs and bloggers are media for the purposes of U.S. Electoral Law.
• Suddenly, blogs were media, and the legacy media, press, and network TV,  have been trying to catch up for the past sixteen years.

During the mid-80s, Michael wrote many two-hour international travel episodes with Oscar-winning stars for the TV Hit Series THE LOVE BOAT in 1980. From that experience, he created (www.cruiselinehistory.com) in 2008, which is now called Cruising The Past. Resulting in his coming book, It’s The Love Boat – How a Television Series Became the Biggest Product Placement in the history of TV and became a major factor in creating today’s cruise industry.

Cruising The Past draws upon Michael’s experiences as a travel historian who appeared in the London Times, NY Times, New York Social Diary, AP, etc., covering cruise, steamship, railroad, social, and travel history. Over 1900 posts/stories and over 250,000 images on Cruising The Past exist.

Contact Michael L. Grace at mlpesqusa@gmail.co

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