Truman Keesey

Truman Keesey is a writer, producer, and director, known for his forward-looking historical documentaries, in particular "Dutch Golden Age Paintin" and "How to Be Successful by Usin Pictures to Program Your Own Mind".

Tru is a "DC Boy", son of the former screenwriter Truman Keesey, who wrote scripts for public television for the health department of the District of Columbia, until he retired to become the public relations officer for the District. From his early years, Tru was a visitor with his dad to all of the TV studios in the Washington DC area. After his retirement, Tru's dad's job was to entertain celebrity visitors to the District of Columbia, thus he appears in a photograph online shaking the hand of Hollywood acting patriarch Charles Laughton.

Tru's mother Marjorie Pennell Keesey was a main-liner a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and a daughter of a 33rd degree mason and Shriner who ran a medical district that was 1/3 of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She was in the KKG sorority, same as Kate Spade, actress agent 99 Barbara Feldon, Ashley Judd, NBC News correspondent Nancy Dickerson, anchor on "Today" and "Dateline NBC" Jane Pauley, and Lucy Hayes the wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes.

Tru's family background includes a sister of the former owner of New Jersey, the Carolinas, and the Bahamas, George Carteret; also William Bradford the maker of the first Thanksgiving. The latter makes him a cousin of Hollywood evergreen actress Sally Field. Those are on his mother's side. On his father's side, he is descended from the prophet Jeremiah and King David of Israel. A priest of Rome told Tru's great uncle Dick that the family is descended from the so-called "thirteenth bloodline" of the House of Guise, but any documentation of this, if there is any, is in private hands.

His father's side of the family is supremely athletic. Tru's father and his father's two brothers all three got athletic scholarships to colleges. Tru's Uncle Tom was drafted by the champion Minneapolis Lakers, but he turned down the job. That was in the 1940s before the days of millionaire athletes. Tom's son Mike pitched and won the Pennsylvania state little-league championship twelve years in succession, and afterward got a scholarship to play on the Georgetown Hoyas. Uncle Ben's grandson was the star lacrosse player in the historic game wherein Towson State College beat Johns Hopkins University for the first time. One of his brothers was a snowboard stunt expert. Tru as a child was the front-runner in several sports including kickball, dodge ball, slow-pitch baseball (he could not hit a fast pitch, maybe due to far-sightedness), and ping-pong. After suffering a concussion he became merely a "good" player in some sports and mediocre in others that he had erstwhile been "good' in.

Tru has had many brushes with famous folks or their extended networks, particularly in the world of entertainment. Also he has had many in the field of politics, but those will not be told of in this biography. At the age of five Tru was tortured by the famous MKUltra director Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, whom he met again thirty years later when Sid was an organizer of a county arts council in Rappahannock County Virginia, in a time when sundry "ex" CIA employees were forming arts councils in counties all over the USA.

At the age of six, Tru produced his first literary work, which was a booklet of sayings and quips. The title has not persisted in memory.

In that same year, Tru appeared as a shoplifter in a documentary written and produced by his father for the Washington DC metropolitan police department. For the film he was taught by an plainclothes detective how to shoplift.

In the fifth grade Tru was celebrated for writing a tale of crime and detection, "Mick Lacy and the Case of the Missing Jam Jar". For those of you who aren't Baby Boomers, "Mick Lacy" is a playing on the name of the front-page Sunday comic strip character "Dick Tracy" and "and the case of" is a well known phrase from crime-solving memes Sherlock Holmes and Perry Mason, and, no doubt, others. The genre might be labeled as "infantile satire". For that writing, Tru's teacher Mrs. Shannon declared that Tru was destined to be a writer. However, twenty five years or more would go by before Tru would turn his hand once again to such writing. Tru's family is a family of writers. His father was a writer. His mother had a Master's degree in English and began a biography of Thomas Jefferson. His brother wrote captions and headlines for a group of five medical trade newspapers, such as "The Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat News" and "The Ob-Gyn News". Tru's uncle was a sports reporter for the Lancaster Intelligencer newspaper in Pennsylvania. Tru's Nephew is an amateur expert paleontologist and writes and is called upon to speak often about dinosaurs and other suchlike biological and paleological stuff.

Tru's brother Tim was in a Cub Scout den with Richard Bangs who later became a celebrated adventure sports author who was host and executive producer of his own television special programs on American Public Television: "Richard Bangs Quests" and "Richard Bangs Adventures with Purpose". Tru's family and Richard's family used to vacation together at Chesapeake Beach on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. Richard's father was a professional stage actor who did well enough to uphold a solid middle class lifestyle for a family of four. Richard has continued as a stunt man, and TV and movies' producer. His work has won six awards from both communications and environmental sectors.

In adolescence and later in adulthood, Tru was friends with John Barrett, who, as a DC metropolitan undercover detective, was involved in the Watergate incident. Because of John's involvement he met Barbara Newman, the executive producer for Geraldo Rivera's "Now It Can Be Told", to become a co-producer with her for the short while that their interaction lasted. Together they produced a number of documentaries for A & E, History Channel, and Discovery Channel.

The Junior High School that Tru went to (now they are called "middle schools") was the same one that Maria Shriver Schwarzenegger went to, though she went years afterward. Though most of the neighborhoods in the school's district were of upwardly mobile middle class, such as congressmen but not senators, Maria's neighborhood Potomac used to be more of an upper income neighborhood. It is a wonder that she went to public school. At the time when Tru was there, the later-famous Rockablilly revivalist Robert Gordon was there, in the same grade as Tru. Tru remembers hearing "Robbie" singing along to "Love Potion Number Nine" by the Clovers at the Friday night dance, and that Robbie's voice was very beautiful on that song, not the kind of use-of-voice that is demanded in rockabilly singing. Robbie became very popular it appears in England, and in USA he appeared with elder rockabilly icon Link Wray, who had his hub in the Washington DC area. Link couldn't sing because he was missing a lung. Tru while walking downtown in afternoons used to see Link outside of the Rocket room taking a cigarette break. He was dressed in a Beatles suit and had the huge pompadour hairstyle, with the ducktails. He was one of Tru's middle-school idols.

Vice President Richard Nixon has been documented as a Quaker, though he went to the same church as Tru went to, the Westmoreland Congregational Church, along with his bevy of secret service agents. As President, Nixon went to the Presbyterian church at some distance from Tru's church. Richard was a foeman of Tru's dad, for Tru's dad had been a union organizer and, with his brother Ben, a high union official at Bethlehem Steel, was accused by Governor Tawes of Maryland of being a communist, so that he must appear on the televised McCarthy hearings. Tru's dad may have unwittingly worked to benefit the communists, but himself was an ardent supporter of free enterprise.

Once in high school, Tru's friend Clark Adams, of the Virginia founding Adams family, said to Tru that one Chris Sticht had read Tru's school paper and had been jealous of the style of writing. Tru had no idea that his writing had such merit. It got Tru to thinking, but very slowly, that maybe he could be a writer.

During the hippie days, Tru was a guest in Palm Springs of the chauffeur of famed comedienne Martha Raye, who had picked up Tru as a hitchhiker, and gave him lunch at his beautiful ranch-style home, observing to Tru, "most of Hollywood is linked to the M.A.F.I.A.".

In his college days, he used to go to the same community college as Donald Fagen of the top pop group Jay and the Americans, who went on to form the long-lasting rock duo Steely Dan. Donald was living with his grandparents close to Silver Spring Maryland at the time, and apparently had had his license to drive revoked. He hitch-hiked home from school every day and Tru picked him up and drove him home every day to his grandparents' house in Kemp Mill Maryland. As it says in Wikipedia, the members were giving fake names to everybody, and at the time Donald was using the name "Howard Wittenberg".

Tru's girlfriend at the time was a daughter of a foremost Estonian actress named "Helgi Parrest", though it is not known whether that was the professional name that she was known by back in Estonia. To escape from death at the hands of the communists, she had walked across the alps pregnant with her firstborn, Enrik, in the worst bit of winter's time, with her husband, who went straight to work for "Radio Free America" but died young after reaching the USA. One night Tru and his girlfriend Ann wandered into a Scientology storefront that was next door to the bar "Crazy Horse" where Jay and the Americans, with Donald Fagen, were playing. Tru took a free IQ and personality test and, as always, scored phenomenally high on the IQ bit of the test. The results showed a number of bar graphs with the IQ column near to full length. All of the other bars -- representing personality results -- were near to zero. Tru was going through a period of malnutrition, homelessness, demoralization, and pot-headedness, that resulted in a total lack of will or interest in anything that the test tested for. At that moment Donald Fagan, on break, wearing his band's uniform -- a Beatles suit -- came in and said "hi" to Tru. He must have somehow felt snubbed, for the next time Tru saw him was after Jay and the Americans broke up, and before he went to California, at an outdoor local concert in Wheaton Regional Park, Wheaton MD, and he snubbed Tru at that time. He was playing by himself on a very loud and heavily distorted guitar, very non-melodic seeming loud noise, as nearly as it might be described. Shortly after that he went to California and formed Steely Dan. Tru still thought, until about 2010, that his name was Howard Wittenberg. A little research and recognizing his face in the pictures disclosed otherwise.

One girl whom Tru partied with during college dated the pop superstar Gene Pitney.

After following Timothy Leary's advice, and dropping out of college, Tru continued to be in the extended network of famous folks. A member of Tru's crew, whose brother used to live with the Pink Floyd's opening band the Orb, next door to the Pink Floyd, had an adventure with the female high soprano of the top ranking do-wop group, the Skyliners, whom Tru also met twice over the years.

After college Tru's family moved to Warrenton Virginia in "Horse Country", where he was a guest in the home of the manager of the farm of the owner of the Mars candy company, and of another farm manager of the house where hitherto fifties teen idol Tab Hunter abode. Tab's house was on the same mountain where the Jumbo Jet crashed out of Dulles Airport. One of Tru's friends, Sandy Liebel, exercised the horses of Paul Mellon, Kentucky Derby winner and zillionaire of the Pittsburgh Mellons.

While in Warrenton, Tru met a young lady named Carter Hodgkin, who later became an honored and award-winning artist and teacher in New York City, represented by the same gallery that represents Chuck Close, the biggest name in hyper-realism. It was Tru who gave to Carter the suggestion to paint microscopic objects, which became one of the themes of her art. Carter is an alumna of the prestigious Foxcroft School in Flint Hill Virginia, among such alumnae as Standard Oil heiress Ruth Bedford, sundry Marses (Mars Candy), third generation entertainment celebrity Stephanie Zimbalist of "Remington Steele, and one or more Mellons.

Enrik Parrest Tru's girlfriend's brother, was very intelligent, but shiftless, and during the hippie times he was drug-free and short-haired, but a wandering bum. He became a friend of Clive Barnes the dance critic for the New York Times newspaper, for Enrik was a great fan of ballet. He wanted to get Tru away from his sister, so, being rather of a non-violent bent, hatched a plan to lure Tru to the whereabouts of the CIA wars in Central America, tell the insurgents that he was a Russian agent (he spoke Russian, Estonian, and English) and somehow arrange to get Tru killed.

He approached Jock Blachly of Chevy Chase Maryland, brother of the locally celebrated leader of the Claude Jones Band, who on the eve of the band's rise to national status quit and joined Yogi Bajan's Washington ashram, and penniless Enrik proposed to penniless Tru and to Jock that the three of them travel in Jock's old Packard, at Jock's expense, liquidating his one hundred silver dollar collection, to Hollywood where Enrik knew an actress who was roommate to the daughter of Groucho Marx. Tru and Jock both agreed. Tru got his hippie-hair cut short to keep from being hassled by police while traveling, and wore a white shirt and black pants, much more like an office worker than a hippie of the time. He was growing slowly away from the homeless hippie phase, but still had a log way to go. Enroute to LA adventures too numerous to be told in this short bio happened, with the loss of the car, and upon arrival the three plus another traveler, who had been picked up in Las Vegas, went into the coffee shop at Sunset and Vine. Or was it Hollywood and Vine? Anyway it was the main tourist intersection at the time, whatever that was.

In the Coffee Shop was comedian Charlie Callas, of whom Tru was fond, and he gave to Tru the most "knowing" look as though he had been expecting him to arrive. Could it have been that Charlie's psychic had advised him that a good and simpatico "fan" would be found at that place and time. It was uncanny the familiarity that Charlie showed in that look. Tru was too bedraggled to respond and amoebically followed his crew into the back room (likely the bathroom), and shortly afterward left.

The next day Enrik phoned to his actress friend's apartment, where he was told that she was in Paris being filmed in a moving picture. Enrik, still the leader (remember the lack of will shown in Tru's psychological test) hatched another cunning plan to walk to Groucho Marx's house and impose upon him, in spite of the exhaustion felt by, seemingly, all but him. It would appear that a man who, as a foetus, had crossed the alps in his mother's womb in winter's time, had plenty of energy for trekking about Hollywood. They went up to Groucho's door and the Hispanic housekeeper said through a small hole in the door that Groucho had just been divorced and was in no mood to receive callers.

Afterward the party broke up and Enrik and Tru continued into Mexico, hitch-hiking, while that other two companions went back to their homes. Sundry adventures ensued until Tru finally got fed up, and wired home for plane fare. There was a stopover in New York City, where Tru's girlfriend, Enrik's sister, had just finished a stint as a counselor in Estonian Summer camp. The stopover was during Woodstock weekend. Tru was fed up with hippies, and with being undernourished and exhausted, and wanted to "wash his hands" of the whole scene, as it were. So in spite of the opportunity, he elected not to go to Woodstock.

Tru hitch-hiked from Washington DC National Airport (now called "Reagan") to Warrenton and was picked up by Warrenton friends in a pickup truck, some of them in the bed. Carter Hodgkin was in the bed. Earlier she had known Tru as a well set-up hippie icon. Seeing the road-weary and bedraggled Tru with his short hair and conservative clothing, and seeing his name on his suitcase, she said, "What are you doing with Tru Keesey's suitcase?" About the incident quoth Tru, "A lesson in the rigors of 'the road'. 'The road' is anti-charismatic for sure!".

Tru's brother Tim became best friends in and around Warrenton with one Roland Tiffany Godfrey, known as "Tiffy" or "Tiff". Tiffy was a close cousin of famed broadcasting pioneer Arthur Godfrey who lived not too far away. In Arthur's generation five Godfrey brothers had wedded five James sisters in Virginia.

Tim wedded Kris Oxaal, whose mother was a Ford, rumored to be one of the thirteen bloodlines. Thus, rumored bloodline weds rumored bloodline. I guarantee you, neither Tru nor Tim nor their parents knew anything of the bloodline stuff, though the CIA in the person of Sid Gottlieb, and the Roman priesthood such as spoke to Tru's great uncle Dick appear to have been keeping track of the bloodlines. Kris's alma mater was the ultra-ritzy Madeira School in McLean Virginia, which graduated such folks as Katherine Graham the owner of the Washington Post newspaper, the famous Cornelia Vanderbilt, a queen of Sikkim, and sundry career actresses and wealthy "philanthropists".

Kris's brother Ford Oxaal was alumnus of Saint Alban's School, which was the home also of Tru's boy scout Troop 5. It graduated such folks as Neil Bush; sundry political officeholders such as senators, congressmen, presidential appointees and supervisory civil servants; Al Gore; a "Simon and Simon" star -- too many potentates to be told of here. Ford became partners with a grand-nephew of famous or notorious socialist and genius playwright George Bernard Shaw. Together they developed a kind of art that had a unique formula for perspective, based upon the structure of the human eye. Things in the middle are bigger than those in the periphery, even though they might be the same distance from the eye. Ford or both of them developed a software for the creation of lenses based upon this principle, and the software was stolen by a corporation, resulting in a lawsuit of many millions of dollars.

We are not sure of the details of the conflict. The product is called "IPIX" and us used to show 360 degree views on real estate websites. Ford's company now owns the rights.

Tru went back to the DC metropolitan area, switching back and forth between there and Warrenton. While working at Count's Western Store in Washington, Tru had the opportunity to disappoint top rated Redskins QB Sonny Jurgensen by telling Sonny that they didn't have the jacket that he was looking for.

Before David Suter became famous, Tru lived in a house with him and spent time with him and another artist Lanny Tupper. David went on to be the premier artist for the Washington Post and the New York Times, while having his own column in William Buckley's National Review. He did also a few covers for Time Magazine. Lanny designed the cover for the first album of the famed "guitarists' guitarist" Nils Lofgren's band "Grin". Nils was also a friend and band member of Neil Young's and lived at Neil's house. Later Nils played in Springsteen's band. Tru suspects that it was Nils he talked to once when he dialed Neil's number by mistake. Here is how it went down: Tru was in Los Angeles, and looked in the phone book for Babaji's Kriya Yoga. He found the name "Babaji" and called the number. Whoever answered (he "vibed" like Nils) played along a minute then laughed and said, "Don't you know what number you called? This is Neil Young's house!"

It turns out that Neil had listed his number in his dog's name, his dog whom he had named after the famous yogi Babaji.

Like John Barret, told of earlier, David Suter was also involved in the Watergate incident as the sketch artist in the courtroom for the Washington Post newspaper. Tru has observed that the Vatican-owned Watergate Hotel and Condominium was virtually unknown until it "coincidentally" got so much free publicity from the "incident". "Somebody really, really knows to handle publicity, don't they?" quoth he.

Lanny's mother, authoresse Margo Tupper, writer of "No Place to Play", was good friends since childhood with the famous actress and burlesque entertainer Butterfly McQueen, who played the little girl in "Gone with the Wind' who said "The Yankees is comin'! The Yankees is comin'!". While Tru was living at the Tupper house, Butterfly came and spent a weekend there, while she was giving a show at the now defunct, but then prominent, Shady Grove outdoor theater.

For a month Tru lived in the former childhood home of John Fahey, the pioneering virtuoso guitar finger-picker whose tunes have been memorialized in sundry productions listed under his name in IMDB.

While Tru was living in Pittsburgh, he ran into the same lady, the high soprano of the former Skyliners vocal group, who had had an adventure with Tru's friend back in Washington. She was visiting Tru's girlfriend, Denise, and she did not recognize Tru. Tru said, "would you like me to read your pulse?" and she agreed. Tru pretended to read her pulse, while telling, to her, the tale of her adventure back in DC. She was quite shocked until Tru confessed that he had been the driver of the car back then.

For a month Tru lived in the former childhood home of John Fahey, the pioneering virtuoso guitar finger-picker whose tunes have been memorialized in sundry productions listed under his name in IMDB. That was in Takoma Park Maryland. The same member of Tru's crew, Max Garrett, who had lived with the Orb and a member of the Pink Floyd, was friends with the Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier, who was afterward killed by a car bomb. Tru was several times a guest in both the suburban and the country houses of Mr. Letelier, and was teacher of guitar to his wife Isabel. While the six-foot-seven Max was living as a punk in England, with safety pins in his cheeks and whatnot, he was recruited to star in a commercial on English television.

While living in Chevy Chase, a Washington DC suburb, Tru met a genius director by the name of Jonathan Eastman, who, though he was a genius director, had precious little ambition, and, when last heard of, had acquired an Eastern Onion singing telegram franchise.

Tru's mother Marjorie "Penny" used to play bridge with a neighbor Mrs. Marvill. Her son Charlie was one of the best painting artists of latter days, though strangely I cannot find him on the internet. While Martin Sheen was unemployed for two years, about 1977 according to his resume, Charlie Marvill was his "drinkin buddy". Tru asked Charlie whether the casting deparments in Hollywood gave preference to homosexual actors. Charlie pondered deeply for a moment about how he would answer, then said, "No, but men are expected to do things to advance their career, that they wouldn't normally do."

Tru regards the greatest moment of his life's time to have been when he received "The Knowledge" of inner peace from Prem Rawat's initiator.

Tru came back to the suburbs of DC, where he met Mark Mayer, a rich merchant who said that he was grandson of MGM partner Louis Mayer. Mark used to visit Tru's sundry abodes, and Tru worked as Mark's astrologer. One time Tru saw in Mark's chart danger of arrest, and within two weeks Mark was reported in the news as having been found dead with his face disfigured. Since the statute of limitations has long gone by, Tru feels safe in saying that he saw Mark alive decades later at a Prem Rawat event in Northern Virginia. Mark had faked his own death to avoid arrest, it would appear. Lately, Tru contacted Alice a family historian descendant of Louis Mayer, and she said that she knew nothing of Mark. It would appear that he was lying not only about his death but about his ancestry.

About the turn of the decade 70s-80s Tru rubbed shoulders with Lawrence "Bing" McCoy who, after being the keyboard player for Bonnie Raitt and touring with Linda Ronstadt and Emmy Lou Harris, went to inventing electronic toys. He was the maker of the Star Bird, Electronic Battleship, and ROM the Spaceknight, which was the concept that Bing said was stolen by Paul Verhoeven to make "Robocop". Bing has an intimate business relationship with Marvel comic magnate Stan Lee.

In the early eighties, Tru met an erstwhile actor named "Robert Vernier". He had worked for two years in Hollywood and his career was in the ascendant when he decided to leave the twisted lifestyle behind. He said that the kicker was when he saw Gregory Peck become drunken at a party, and act out a scene just like the end of Pink Flamingos, except the role of the dog was played by Pearl Bailey. Robert went back home to Arlington County Virginia and ran a second-hand shop. In the early days of VHS there were thick paperback books published that indexed the names of actors and directors, and Tru found Rober's name in one of those books. There used to be a character of Robert's name in IMDB in "Duel a Dakar" (1951), now there is an actor of his name, but neither is he. He appears not to be listed in IMDB.

In the 1980s, Tru made his third literary production, "The Truman Keesey Yearbook", a magazine which included episodes of a serial tale called "On the Road to Dendron". Though the timeline of his productions in the eighties and nineties is unclear, it appears that his next production was a sci-fi/fantasy comic book script called "Planet Zoltan Comics", followed by "Erik" a literary magazine that held his serial tales "The Adventures of Smoozy P. Harpfargel", fantasy tale "26 Tankers of Steel", and a short sci-fi tale "Gigantic German Spacecraft". Next a sci-fi/fantasy tale called "War of the Libraries". All of the foregoing tales, except "Dendron" were compiled lately into a book published on Amazon.com called "The Adventures of Smoozy P. Harpfargel".

Also in the nineties, Tru wrote a biographical dictionary erst called "Wighty Lore" based upon the word "wight" meaning "soul", and switched to "Living Beings Archive". That is out of print but Tru hopes to publish a new edition of it within the next two years.

Because of hillbilly shows on TV, Tru conceived a dream to dwell in Appalachia. In 1992 he moved to Appalachia. In 1995 he moved to Cumberland Maryland in Appalachia, the home of actor Eddie Deezen and the home of the high school attended by William Macy. Tru never met those fellows, but they are "legends" in the county, Allegany County. Two years afterward he moved to Frostburg in the same county, which is the town that houses Frostburg State University, the alma mater of Gregory Thomas Garcia, the producer of "Yes Dear", "The Millers", "Raising Hope", and "My Name is Earl". Tru never met Gregory.

While in Frostburg, Tru came into the acquaintance of Marc Slanger, who, with his partner Tyler Ralston, a writer and son of a playwright, made his first feature length film with Tru as one of the actors. The film is a remake of a copyrighted work, so it would not be righteous to give the title of it here. Marc went on to work with scandalous indie filmmaker Nick Zedd in Brooklyn and afterward to be involved in special effects in "Gotham". Marc and Nick are both listed in IMDB. Nick has been rated very highly by the talented but very twisted John Waters.

About the same time when Marc was making his moving picture, another Frostburg man named John Brode took it upon himself to restore the ancient and decaying Palace Theater in Frostburg. It is a theater of 300 seats. John went to the trouble of learning how to restore, operate, maintain and repair the ancient projectors, and with his crew took away tons and tons of rubble and debris. By and by the theater was used to premier Marc's moving picture to a packed house. The theater in the nineteen-zeros had been built and housed a nickelodeon. The projecting equipment that John and his crew found was from the nineteen fifties, and instead of a cogent works inside of a cowling, as in later projectors, it was made up of three sundry bits attached to a pedestal: the picture head, the sound head, and the lamp. The lamps were first generation xenon lamps. Of the bits found in the Palace Theater only the lamps were serviceable. In order to understand the workings and the maintenance of the equipment, John had to specially request literature from rare experts, and visit some of them afar to obtain tutelage. He bought used parts to fit out the old style thirty-five millimeter projectors and now they work well and keep a segment of the population of Frostburg regularly entertained and sometimes informed (while fed). The new restorers built a performance stage so that live music and plays can be done before the seated onlookers, or entertainees, if you will.

Some time in the zeros, it may have been, Tru's nephew T. Michael Keesey worked in the organization of top filmscore musical producer Hans Zimmer, known for "Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl", "The Lion King", "The Dark Knight", and "Inception". Mike's service was in web design and web engineering. Mike was appointed to manage Hans's new operation in Maylasia, when suddenly Mike quit and went freelance. One time Mike was shooting pool around Los Angeles and a famous young starlet joined him for a good while in the playing. Tru tried to get Mike to tell again her name, but Mike is not answering Tru's emails.

Since the year 2000, Tru has published several books on Amazon. Back in the early 1980s he discovered documents in the Library of Congress, that described the original Ayurvedic pracitces, and took heed of the truth that they were very unlike the way in which Ayurveda has been presented in latter days. Tru took the points of unlikeness, added some key and useful Ayurvedic concepts, and made a small book called "Ayurvedic Medicine Treatment -- Neglected Secrets of Ayurveda and Health". Most of the online reviews have been favorable.

Tru began to make videographs, which is a word that the lower classes of folks shorten to "video" as they are too lazy or too careless and uncaring to sound out the full word in all of its beauty, on Animoto around 2009 or so. Shortly thereafter he bought a Sony Bloggie and began to make documentaries "for real". O! What fun had he!

Tru began a biographical dictionary of selected pirates, Vikings, and other seamen, in twenty-five or more volumes, called "The Book of Seamen". Two volumes can be found on Amazon.com, available only to rich folks. Next he reconstructed the history of Northern Europe after the Great Flood, through the Viking Age, in five small volumes targeted toward the young-to-adult readership, and called "Norse Tales". The first two of these can be gotten on Amazon.com.

A short paper he published on Amazon.com is called "Win Back the Land" and offers a strategy for the re-ruralization of lands and recovery of wilderness.

Of late he has been working on a history of the European milieu centered around one branch of his family, the House of Pennell or Pinel of the Isle of Jersey. The first half of that work is expected to be fulfilled in the year 2016.

In Frostburg Tru for a while was buddies with a cousin of hilarious Don Knotts of the long-running "Andy Griffith Show" later "Andy of Mayberry", a cousin who taught Tru how to program DnB beats on his groove box.

While in Frostburg Tru palled around with the son of a top character actor, producer, director, and self, Edward Mallory, also a man of local beginnings around Cumberland Maryland.

Michael Snyder of a Frostburg family is producer/director of documentaries and short films. His work is extremely professional, pleasant, and artistic. He has won a good many awards, especially from environmentalist organizations. For Frostburg's bicentennial hullabaloo he produced and directed a film in which Tru Keesey appeared, "A Day in the Life of Frostburg", also award-winning, and which was shown at the Palace Theater. In Michael's seat in Washington DC the film was aired on public television with three hundred thousand viewers. Not a great sum by Hollywood standards, but for a localized production it reflects the respect that his work earned. John Brode also appeared in the film, and was one of the thirty-seven "home movie" camera obscura operators and operatrices.

Other books and papers that Tru has published you'll not find out about by reading this biography. His plans for the future are to create more and better and longer videos, and to finish writing his historical books, and to convert them into verse and videoscope format.