Almost fourteen years ago my wife Lynda and I started teaching in our dining room with just two students, calling the fledgling group the Join Us Cloggers and regrouping into The Thunder Floor Cloggers shortly thereafter, and the organization has grown now to include cloggers from the Lansing area to Holland, MI, White Cloud, to Kalamazoo and Marshall. Teaching in five communities. I became a certified clogging instructor through C.L.O.G of Atalnta, GA in 1997, and in December 2004 I began calling square dances. Big circle and also four couple old time.

Along the way we have taught 4 of our five children and 6 of our 13 grandchildren this American Freedom Dance. We became involved in building dance floors for the home that anyone can put down themselves, portable stages for small communities and designing a new clogging shoe that is clogger friendly we call The Flatfooter. The clogger friendly shoe is made under contract by trusted Mid-South Footwear Manila, AR. The Flatfooter has been advertized in the Double Toe Times, the magazine for clogging and percussive dance, and the Clogdancing Newsletter.

Besides all this we do the organizing of the ‘ All Michigan Cloggers’ show for Historic Bowens Mills, Bowens Mills, MI(Middleville ZIP) in bringing dozens of cloggers from Michigan, Indiana and Ohio to show off at their Antique Steam Machinery and Gasoline Show in September every year, and host the Mid-Winter Hot Dog Clog Hog held at the Maple Leaf Grange in January. The January Clog Hog is the Thunder Floor Cloggers main fund raiser for their portable stage and expenses and is open to the Public.

In September of 2004 we formed The Old Time American Clogging and Southern Appalachian Square Dance School here in Lake Odessa, MI, MI,which covers all the classes in other communities, and the Folk Heritage Program was born shortly afterwards. Using the program has given us a tool to be able to include another area of our folk dance and teach it to groups of people from reunions to seminar/assembly situations in schools etc in a fun way learning about a part of our heritage through a historical, hands-on authentic activity. The Folk Heritage Program is conducted at the school or on someone else’s site. It also works well for helping other organizations in fund raising.

The THUNDER FLOOR CLOGGERS are a high energy dance troupe that attracts young and old alike. The dancers give the air on stage and off stage of a clogging community, helping each other and complimenting each other in their dance.

Bob and Lynda encourage the families to get involved in this American Freedom Dance. They don’t try to attract a child particularly, but encourage the family as a whole to learn the dance. Realizing that when a family learns, the children see their family as a whole learning. The children can see the family participating in a correct way of learning, and the child matures and matures correctly. They believe that the dance will stay with the family for the rest of their lives and, they too, will pass this wonderful dance of their heritage on to their descendents.

Bob and Lynda believe there is a wonderful, joyful time coming for the common man. In the very near future all kinds of new information and truth will be brought to the forefront for the benefit of mankind. New historical, medical, archeological, astronomical, governmental, industrial, law and theological knowledge will be poured out upon mankind. Flooding the minds of men and throwing mankind into a euphoric condition resulting in joy not before seen on this earth, resulting in the theme of the day being music festivals every day of the week, and most you will be able to walk to. At the same time, even though the economies of the nations will be connected , there is coming a great nationalistic attitude by each nation. Bob and Lynda believe the peoples want to learn about themselves.

There is a time almost upon us when there will be a great demand for dancers, singers, and musicians and it will pale the time we are living in by comparison. People will be so joyful that they will literally, so to speak, be in the streets acting out their joy in a goodly manner.