Keller flipping cages video

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

We Keller Women

Somewhere along in the 1960's, my grandmother Anna Keller bought a shinny new white Chevy Impala with red leather interior.  She saw it on the car lot and bought it right then and there.  The thing was, she had never driven a car.  It had just gotten to the point in her long independent feisty life that she wanted her own transport.   She enlisted help from a neighbor to teach her the basics and a few days later showed up at our house that was 100 miles to the west.  This was not the first time Anna had surprised us with her strength as a single mom.  She had raised her 12 brothers and sisters and my dad with firm ear pulling and fine example. Last year at the start of my own Oyster Aquaculture operation, husband Jack informed me his boat was NOT a working boat and would not be available to me for oystering nor would he be dedicating his time to serve as captain. I scrolled through Craigslist and other boat classified ads each night until a 19foot Carolina Skiff caught my e
Read more

The Movie, OYSTERMOM

Image
 Never, ever did I ever think there would be a movie produced about me.  But I failed to see the interest the oyster aquaculture story held for so many.  Including Jules Crespo, an FSU digital film school student.  She approached me during the pandemic saying her class was selecting three projects - and she wanted to propose the story of OysterMom.  I agreed to be supportive, and she submitted a project proposal.  It was rejected as a class project, but Jules was not hindered by that -- she said she wanted to produce it on her own.   Weeks later, she and two fellow classmates arrived at my dock for a day of filming out on the oyster lease.  She was fully equipped with a microphone, still and video capabilities.  She was also adept at asking questions, pulling stories out of me and capturing them in the moment.   A while later, she and the team arrived at my warehouse and filmed me for 1.5 hours -- question after question. Where did I come from, why oysters, what impresses me, who helpe
Read more