Wilhelm Kühner | William Keener
Kühner Kommentar an Amerika (Copyright © 2019)
“No, I’m not a ‘pure’ German, or Lutheran. My most recent paternal ancestors were Americans Methodists, and my Reformed (Congregationalist) mother, descended from Presbyterian Scots-Irish ancestors, had me catechized as an ‘Utterly Confused Christian’ before I became an absurdist and a secular humanist following some constructive youthful indiscretion with (non-theistic) Taoist philosophy and practices.”
Wilhelm Kühner is the pen name (Germanic version) of William Keener, a descendant of 18th century German and Scots-Irish “skittles” who “settled” in the North Carolina backcountry. William is a ninth generation resident of the Catawba River Valley with over 20 years of experience managing complex global knowledge management and software engineering and support projects for a Fortune 100 company.
A freelance writer and publisher (Kühner Kommentar an Amerika), President of the Hickory Humanist Alliance, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Catawba Valley Interfaith Council, William has written guest columns and op-eds for the Raleigh News & Observer and the Hickory Daily Record and is the author of three books related to his ongoing genealogical and related history research, which is the main focus of this blog on Medium.
