ABOUT
MICHAEL T. KEENE

Michael Keene is the author of eight non-fiction books, nine local history videos, and an award-winning forty episode podcast.

Although employed for twenty-five years as a financial advisor, Michael has combined his interests in writing, historical research, and film making to explore unique and fascinating episode’s of nineteenth century history and stranger-than-life legends.

The events that bubbled out of this period include the orphan train phenomenon, the origins of the modern spiritualist movement, the women’s rights and abolitionist movements as well as the founding of seven new religions and utopian communes.

Michael’s work also explores the history of the treatment of insanity, the building of the Erie Canal and the hidden history of Americas largest mass grave-yard.

What began as a hobby fifteen-years ago has now become a glorious obsession!