Author Archives: Chuck Keller

The Fort Thomas Forest Conservancy will host a fundraiser, An Evening With Harlan and Friends, at Headquarters in Newport on Friday, November 8, 6:00 to 9:00 PM. All proceeds will benefit the restoration of Hubbard’s studio now on the National Register of Historic Places. View seldom seen and never before seen Hubbard paintings from private […]

Look at all of that hair. According to my wife, when we first met I looked like I was in the BeeGees – long, curly locks and a bushy beard. It was the 1980s. Now I look like Mr. Clean. I visited my old neighborhood and things have changed. Spaces seem smaller. Some places seem […]

Weeding the garden. I visited Colleen Epperson’s environmental science students clean-up day on Sunday at the high school. I thought I would write a piece about a group coming together to perform a community service, but something else happened. There were three projects: weed and plant in the education rain garden, clean up behind the […]

My family tree is in there somewhere. So we did the DNA ancestry test thing. No surprises – lots of western/northern European with a touch of Eastern European Jew tossed in. Yawn. I admit that I have done some research on my family tree but this question nags at me. Is it necessary to know […]

Image courtesy of Bill Wilson Are we obligated to make our community better simply by being a resident of the community? Am I obligated to make the community I live in better just because I live there? Are my obligations covered simply by paying taxes and keeping my house and yard up? Do I owe […]

You know, when some people retire they play a lot of golf or they sit around wondering what will happen next. Not Bill Dirkes. You’ll find him all around the tri-state with his paints, pallet, easel, and camera. Dirkes is an HHS graduate (1971) and played on two state championship football teams during his high […]

School has started and it’s the topic of lots of conversations. I was recently asked why I became a teacher. Well, I never revealed the true reason – until now. Because I almost failed kindergarten, I become a teacher.  Now those seem unlikely dots to connect but they do. We were learning colors. The teacher […]

Courtesy: Jeremy Shannon Forest bathing does not require soap and water, just an open mind. The Japanese term for forest bathing translates into “taking in the forest” which may be a more accurate description. And you can experience it all on the trails in Tower Park on Sunday, August 25 between 10:00 and 2:00. Show […]

We don’t know how to talk about disease. Our culture is so focused on youth, health, and vitality that the only time we address disease seems to be during the commercials on the evening news.  And even then, those are some pretty healthy looking sick people. As you know, I’ve been dealing with Diffused Large […]