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Keith McHenry was born in Frankfurt, West Germany in 1957 while his father was stationed there in the army. His paternal great great grandfather was Dr. James McHenry, who signed the United States Constitution and served as a general in the Revolutionary War and as Secretary of War under George Washington. His paternal grand father was ranger with the National Park Service. His maternal grand father was a lawyer in the Massachusetts State Attorney General's Office.
Keith moved with his family to Logan, Utah in 1958 where his father
worked for Morton-Thiokol while he studied to get a Masters in Zoology at Utah State. After leaving Utah, Keith's father joined the National Park
Service. Keith lived in the National Parks at Yosemite (CA), Yorktown (VA), Grand Canyon (AZ), Big Bend (TX), Shenandoah (VA), and the Everglades (FL). In 1974, Keith began studying painting at Boston University and worked afternoons,weekends, and summers as a tour guide and museum curator on the historic Freedom Trail in Boston. After college, Keith worked three years for the National Park Service and traveled across the United States working as an artist. In 1979, he started an advertising firm in Boston. His company, Brushfire Graphics designed calendars, ads, and brochures for the Boston Celtics, the Boston Red Sox, the Environmental Protection Agency, and a multitude of small businesses and associations. He won the Clio Award for print media. His artwork was the subject of an Off Broadway play produced by Theater Works in Boston and a film that opened at the Toronto Film Festival. In 1980, Keith and seven friends created the all volunteer group, Food Not Bombs which now feeds the hungry in over 175 communities in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. He also co-authored the book Food Not Bombs: How to Feed the Hungry and Build Community which has sold more than 10,000 copies in three languages. The 20th Anniversary English edition was published in Tucson by See Sharp Press. His work with Food Not Bombs also appeared in Amnesty International's Human Rights Report in 1995, Interviews With Icons by Lias Law and in Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. He was the recipiant the 1999 Local Hero Award by the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Keith was also a pioneer in the Low powered FM radio movement and a co-founder of San Francisco Liberation Radio San Francisco Liberation Radio He has been maintaining the Food Not Bombs web site since 1994 and he still revise it's publications. His main passion is painting, drawing, graphic design and illustration. Today, Keith continues to enjoy volunteering with Food Not Bombs, drawing, hiking, writting articles, starting his next book, and traveling the world.
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