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JWKeleher- About Me

You ever sit on the hood of your pick-up, look at the stars and wonder what all this life-adventure is about?

Seems I was always a dreamer. My 4 year old self found a smooth rock while hiking with my mother and she shared, “Could be a petrified dinosaur egg.” I didn’t know what petrified meant, but I did know what dinosaur meant. I swaddled the rock in my favorite blanket and then carried it with care down into the basement. I sat on it with the vision of taming my triceratops to ride around my town. It never did hatch.

JWKeleher- About Me

You ever sit on the hood of your pick-up, look at the stars and wonder what all this life-adventure is about?

Seems I was always a dreamer. My 4 year old self found a smooth rock while hiking with my mother and she shared, “Could be a petrified dinosaur egg.” I didn’t know what petrified meant, but I did know what dinosaur meant. I swaddled the rock in my favorite blanket and then carried it with care down into the basement. I sat on it with the vision of taming my triceratops to ride around my town. It never did hatch.

My love of all things ancient and mysterious led me to teen years of wandering. I scanned the fresh-plowed fields of Western New York State. I had hopes of finding an arrowhead (in the end, I only found one while planting gladiolas in the family garden). I pursued archaeology and earned a BA and an MA. Life was good and I especially enjoyed survey projects. I worked on many archaeological projects throughout the American Northeast and Southwest.

Teaching friends convinced me to become a classroom teacher. So, I teach for income and pursue great mysteries from history on the side. I follow intriguing question through the dusty paths of the past. I visited the Mermaid Burial of Benbencula Island. I buried myself in archival research in France. I considered the mass migration by the Ancestral Puebloans of the Four Corners area.

 

Some call me The History Mystery Guy which fits. Beul Nam Beinn (mouth in the Hill) includes historic mermaid sightings. The Morgellons Pyramid investigates a terrible medical condition from 1550 to the present. I share from the perspective of a recovered patient as well as a researcher. So, fiction or non-fiction, there is always history and mystery woven into my writings. Life and the creative force structure Grandpa and the Christmas Crib. The Cliff Huggins series digs into archeological matters. Short stories like “Dracula’s Bath” consider the people behind the monsters. I write and sleuth with pen in hand.
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I sit in my well-worn leather chair with my trusty feline side-kick, Panger Ban. May I hold your interest and your ear. If you wish to find out more about me, follow your instinct and check out the rest of my writing. Join me in taking on a history mystery!