Author Archives: Chuck Keller

The Hubbard Studio and Preserve. This is going to be fun. And it’s going to result in a piece of Fort Thomas art that you will want to own. The Harland Hubbard Studio and Nature Preserve will hold a special open house educational event on Saturday, October 13 at the Hubbard Studio from 12:00 – […]

The Harlan Hubbard Studio.  There has been some activity in the middle of town on Highland Avenue – Moyer school has been renovated, a couple of residences are undergoing renovation or being built, and the Harlan Hubbard Studio and Nature Preserve has been quietly undergoing historic renovation. If you don’t know, Harlan Hubbard is often […]

I was mortified as I sat in the principal’s office with my parents. The principal was pleasant and professional. My parents, well, mostly my mother, was livid over a book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, that we were asked to read for high school English class. It was a bestseller and contained some language […]

There is a divide in Fort Thomas.  Most people joke about it, but the issue runs deep in the city’s personality and goes back to the beginning of Fort Thomas time. It is the north-south divide.  If you have lived here for any length of time, you have witnessed the divide. The north side is […]

Courtesy John Homer So if you don’t know John Homer, well, then you should. He is a naturalists who you might have met at the Earth Day event because he led the spring wildflower walk in the woods. (Oh, and those photos can be found on the free Fort Thomas app in iTunes and Google […]

If you don’t know Mary Ballard then you better scoot on down to the 915 before the end of August. Mary has been taking care of this community in some form for as long as I can recall and has decided it’s time to retire.  Now I admit that I cannot be unbiased here because, […]

Imagine that you can only own 100 items. Pretty tough? You bet it it. But there is a minimalist movement that demands that you can only have 100 items. That includes clothing, furniture, household items, everything. It’s pretty severe but it requires that you live deliberately, with purpose. I mean, I just did a quick […]

Like the swallows returning to Capistrano or the buzzards to Hinkley, Ohio, students return to Fort Thomas roughly the same time every August – roughly two weeks prior to the beginning of school. Even if I didn’t have a calendar, I would know that the opening of school was near. For the most part, Fort […]

This is a love story. It’s also about heroes. It’s also about loss. It’s also about August 1. I initially spoke with Steve Ross regarding the August 1st 50th anniversary of his older brother being shot down over North Vietnam. But as our conversation progressed, I realized that wasn’t the story. The Captain Joseph Shaw […]

Natural Start Preschool members make mud pies  for butterflies. It’s encouraging to see the number of pollinator gardens around the city for bees and butterflies. But there is something else that we can do to nurture butterflies and you can learn all about it at a family friendly activity at the Farmer’s Market July 18 […]