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December 03 2017, Sunday!
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How about the 1st of March? which is a Wednesday.

Oh and in the year 2017

 

Still no correct answers...... I'm working up another contest... but I don't want to run more than one at a time, so waiting for somebody to win this one first. Reading the book would find the answer, or a lucky guess might hit it. Tom

 

Monday 7/17/2017 as good as any other day I suppose.:high5:

 

Still no correct guesses... by the way, I researched the geography for the book very precisely. Every street and house actually exists, and I personally did quite a lot of exploring in the underground areas of the Quincy Mine (where much of the action in the story takes place over a period of a few days) while I was a Geology student at Michigan Technological University. Even the time of moonrise and the phase of the moon is correct for the dates according to predictions from the US Naval Observatory database.

 

Jan. 18th Which I think is a Wed.

 

Wed, Jan 18, 2017 was actually guessed earlier in the thread... that's the date when things get started... but not the date when the Republic of Superior is officially declared. There has been at least one very close guess... but no direct hits. When submitting a guess be sure to include month, day, year, and day-of-the-week. Good luck! Tom

 

January 2nd 2017, Wednesday?

 

3 tries

Tuesday, February 28th 2017

or

Friday, June 30th 2017

or

Friday, March 31st 2017

 

Still no... There was a hint in one of my posts up the page a ways... maybe nobody caught it....

 

one more

Wednesday, June 14th 2017

 

June 23rd 2017 Fri.?

 

Well I got the book finally. I think it's January 21, 2017 which would be a Saturday. But I didn't read it all yet so I'll submit a few other guesses:

Jan 19 2017 thursday

Jan 20 2017 friday

 

Signifigant days in Mich. History 4/9 & 5/12 & 9/3 - Treaty of Paris signing?

Sunday 4/9/2017
Friday 5/12/2017
Sunday 9/3/2017

Wild guesses
Saturday 1/21/2017
Wednesday 2/01/2017

BTW - read the first three chapters posted on your web site and didn't find the answer, wish I had the book to look it up

 

And just to be sure, I'll add jan 22, 2017 sunday, Jan 23, 2017 Monday..

I am pretty sure it's the Jan 21, but I'd like to read the book now without ruining too much .

 

Ding - Ding - Ding - Ding - Ding

WE HAVE A WINNER!

TSK has answered with the correct answer: Friday, Jan 20, 2017. The whole book takes place over a period of just over forty eight hours.

Private-message me with your mailing address and I ship off your coin! That's Arne on the obverse! Enjoy the rest of the story!

Tom

 

Good job tsk, boy I was close - Thanks for the contest Tom...

 

Wooo! Cool, my first contest win . I'm gonna have two daughters me for it . Thanks Tom!

 

Just a (late) update... I got the coin on Saturday. It's really nice. I'm quite impressed by the detail. Thanks again Tom!

BTW, I'm about 1/4 way through the book now.

 

Tsk: Thanks for letting us know the coin's arrived. Glad you like it! I hope you're enjoying the book.

By the way, if you noticed... in the future history story line the US dissolves into the NAFU (North American Federal Union) in 2009. On CNN today I was shocked to hear about moves to politically unify the US with Canada and Mexico... and they're calling it the North American Union. Made the hair stand up on my head!

Have fun!