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Hoboken Talks: Bill Keller, storyteller and writer, talks with Bob Foster
October 5, 2022 @ 12:00 am
Join us online Thursday, October 6 at 7pm for what promises to be a very entertaining Hoboken Talks! Retired teacher, member of the Elks Lodge, and general maker of mischief Bill Keller talks live with Museum Director Bob Foster. This talk is pre-recorded, live “Chat” feature on YouTube and Facebook is not available.
Bill retired after a 30-years + career as a teacher. He started teaching college, then high school, and, lastly, elementary school, joking that he, “started at the top, and worked his way down.” His Hoboken roots are deep – his dad was a Doctor at St. Mary’s Hospital (presently the Hoboken University Medical Center) for over 25 years. He is an accomplished storyteller of Hoboken tales, and says, “most of them are true.” He is the author of, “A Place Like Hoboken,” which Amazon describes as, “a collection of 23 short stories told with uncommon passion and dark humor. Keller vividly brings to life the characters and their town with all the warts, wrinkles, fun and folderol that defined one of the most intriguing places on our planet: Hoboken, New Jersey!” He has also written memory pieces for the bulletin of the Elks Club, a favorite haunt for over 25 years. He is the lead author of a series of questions fondly remembered as the “Hoboken Questionnaire” which were humorously used to separate true Hobokenites from ‘yuppie invaders’ decades ago. Bill says, “No one, including myself, wrote down all the answers to those questionnaires. The slapdash nature of the undertaking was part of the fun, sadly! The answers to many a query went to sleep with buonanimas no longer with us.”
Bill, we can’t wait to hear those Hoboken stories, true or not!
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