I grew up in a small town in South Western Minnesota. I knew the out-of-doors, I knew the bounty of crops, birds, rivers, streams, beaver, muskrat, snapping turtles, river bottoms and sand pits. Throughout those years I utilized the spring water that flowed out of the earth like a gift from God. It was from …
Not BillKeitel.com Thirty years ago I was entertaining an international public relations friend from Japan. After our supper together the news came on an interrupted our pleasant conversation and evening. There had been a mass shooting in a McDonalds in California. It was one of the early assaults on our society and nation. It directed …
SUMMER ROADNOTES As the summer wears on we power up the photon boosters on the Starship and go where no leather smiths have gone before. Brookings Summer Art Festival is the first stop. It is held in a beautiful city park in amongst the trees, everybody has shade and shade is a valued commodity in …
When people don’t extend themselves in acts of friendship they learn nothing about society. I see this time and time again. My friends that are suspicious of people not like themselves signals to me that they have no experience with meeting others. My life has been made productive by meeting others, establishing relationships, getting to …
Enclosed are some curious photo’s that I’ve taken in the past year. The petroglyphs are taken at Three Rivers Petroglyphs in New Mexico. The man with his hands in the air depicting alarm was created approximately 750 years ago, next to his was a glyph of a rattlesnake. This rock art depicts all we need …
Upon the second reading of Henry Mayhew’s London. I continue to enjoy his insights. It is an exhaustive treatise on the street life of London in and around 1854. It explains the lives of shop keepers, costermongers, rat catchers, rat sellers, pick pockets, whores and prostitutes. He even explores the street sewers (notating whether made …
Our obsession started thirty years ago, the mountains began over 300 million years ago. We were on our way to YellowStone with our children of seven and ten years old. After a grueling drive across the lone prairie we encamped on a mountain top in the Big Horn Mountains. At nine thousand five hundred feet …
The town of Buffalo is situated at the foot of the Big Horn Mountains. The Big Horns have been one of the best kept secrets of the Western United States. A celebration occurs each summer in Buffalo it is called Longmire Days. “Longmire” is a television show found on Netflix and it was taken from …
Osama Bin Laden was a genius, he knew full well the economic power house of the United States. He studied and understood this nations vast resource, resource in food production, manufacturing, invention, money management, military and education. Osama spent a large portion of his life trying to understand what “Makes America Great. “ One of …
I phone my friends and ask “will we see you in Breckenridge, Co. exhibiting at the art fair?” A long hesitation…..”Our R.V. Can’t make it up that steep mountain at 12,000 ft”. We set off by ourselves with a devil-may-care attitude. We travel in an RV with a turbo diesel and we can do …