Mike Keeler
MIKE KEELER: May 1774: The Empire Strikes Back
On May 13, 1774, a large vessel sailed into Boston Harbor. It wasn't a whaler, it wasn't a trading ship of any kind. It was the HMS Lively, a...
MIKE KEELER: One Big Bottle of DUH
Let us now praise the pandemic.It was poetic that on the 50th Anniversary of Earth...
MIKE KEELER: The Amazing Thing . . .
This past week’s solar eclipse up in the great north woods was pretty amazing, And...
MIKE KEELER: Spring 1774: Intolerable
In the aftermath of the destruction of the Francis Scott Key bridge this past week,...
Mike Keeler: Back in Daylight Spending Time
As we move into Daylight Savings Time, turns out the only thing we’re saving is...
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...
MIKE KEELER: No No No No No! (Or as they say in Spanish, ¡NO!)
It's Friday, the end of the week, so maybe you're thinking you can let yourself go a little bit, and you can drive through...
MIKE KEELER: Honor The Herb . . .
With Earth Day coming up, I scrolled through the archives looking for past stories about nature, and I found a lot of them. In...