ABOUT THE AUTHOR

     Michael Logue is a living assemblage of the ancient and modern peoples and complex landscapes of west and central Mississippi. His ancestors are hiding in the pages of Echoes from the Bluffs. He was born into and worked in Vicksburg’s social kaleidoscope in his wonder years.
     With a Mississippi State University degree in communications and a master’s degree in mass communications from Mississippi College, he enjoyed a 42-year career with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in corporate and crisis communications on the lower Mississippi River and across the nation.
     He served as editor and project manager for “Of Men and Rivers, the History of the Vicksburg District, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers.” The publication received the Award of Merit from the Mississippi Historical Society.
     Locally, he managed several national-award-winning educational programs to include the semester-long local-history class, the “Mississippi River Course,” in both local public high schools. He also created and taught a sixteen week homeschool local-history course, “Vicksburg: From the Ice Age to the Space Age.”
     He was named the 2006 Mississippi College Communications Alumnus of the Year. He also received a Corps’ Lifetime Achievement Award in his career field, the first given to a living practitioner and only the second ever awarded. He was named multiple times the Corps’ Michael C. Robinson Public Affairs Practitioner of the Year and Locke L. Mouton Emergency Communicator of the Year.
     He is an award-winning screenwriter of six motion-picture screenplays, including “Blood Trails,” a story of the removal of the Choctaw to Oklahoma, a key topic in this work.
     He helped develop the themes and suggested art displays for the Corps’ Jesse Brent Lower Mississippi River Interpretive Center, a key regional history center with subject matter dating back to prehistory.
     In 2007, he transitioned to communications consultant, a move that allowed time for two of his passions: history and genealogy.
     He created a six-week “Legends and Legacies” class to take twelve local families at a time, six times a year, on a search for their roots. He was able to cover over 1,000 family lines, their migration, and their stories. These families are certainly behind the curtain in this work.
     He spearheaded the creation of the Historic Vicksburg Advisory Council, about fifty interrelated businesses and organizations focused on growing the local history and tourism industry. He served on the Mayor’s Commission for the Tercentennial of Fort St. Pierre, the region’s first French presence.
     He is a member of the Vicksburg Historical Society, the Mississippi Historical Society, and a former board member of the Old Depot Museum and the Vicksburg Riverfront Murals project. He served five years as president of the Vicksburg Guide Association.
     A subject matter expert and blogger on the Vicksburg Campaign and Siege, he gives, almost daily, three-hour and all-day customized field lectures on this topic.
 

Michael Logue