Mike Keeler

Mike Keeler: Back in Daylight Spending Time

As we move into Daylight Savings Time, turns out the only thing we’re saving is daylight. Ben Franklin’s original idea was a good one. He reasoned that if we turned...

MIKE KEELER: Who Are We REALLY Celebrating?

On President’s Day weekend, it’s nice to know there are some things we can all...

MIKE KEELER: Oh Deer!!

Here in North America, we’re all familiar with white-tailed deer, and we can easily distinguish...

MIKE KEELER: A Little Medicine For These Troubled Times

There is only one sport played by people that wasn’t invented by humans. That sport...

MIKE KEELER: Some Surprising History Behind America’s Thanksgiving Bird

We head to Thanksgiving. But first! Let's head back to France, and the year 913. At...

MIKE KEELER: What It Once Took To Make A Long Distance Call

Tel Aviv, this is Telephone Pole calling. Telephone Pole calling, come in, Tel Aviv...hmm, they're not answering...the line is dead. But not so long ago...

MIKE KEELER: The Letters, the Leak, and Liberty

250 years ago this month, Boston was on the boil. It was a result of events going back much further, all the way to 1603....

MIKE KEELER: Forget Necessity – The FATHER of Invention is Desperation.

Here's an example. In 1922, in the little German village of Deisenhofen, a retired railroad worker named Franz Xaver Kugler opened an inn and...

Mike Keeler: One Thing You Probably Didn’t Know About Summer . . .

For many folks the beginning of summer means that it’s time to hop in the car, drive out to the park, and fire up...

MIKE KEELER: All Hail The 50,000!

That’s a very rough estimate of American colonial soldiers who were killed, died from disease, or died as prisoners of war, in the struggle...

MIKE KEELER: 52 Trees – No more, No Less

Driving through town today, all the yards were in full bloom and everybody looks like they are in 'spruce it all up in time...