Meet Keith Guernsey! Keith moved to the area with his wife Susan and dog Harley nearly four years ago. He spends his time writing books, volunteering with ITN Lanier (a local organization that provides transportation to older adults) and senior softball.
Keith is originally from Massachusetts and is retired from Comcast in sales and sales management. Although, Guernsey worked in sales that was not always his passion; he grew up playing and loving sports such as football and hockey.
In 1995, Keith was diagnosed with a life-threatening tumor and had his first brain surgery at age 44, in 1997 he underwent his second brain surgery. Today, Keith is proud to have overcome this life obstacle as well as all the physical challenges that came with it.
He also is proud to have found the time to write two books and hopes to write his next book about local sports legend Deshaun Watson. 
We want to thank Keith for recently sitting down with our Abernathy Cochran intern Grace Roland, and telling us more about his life and love of Hall County.
Question: What inspired you or led you to your career?
Answer: “I sort of just fell into sales more or less. I had worked for an electronic component manufacturer in Massachusetts in college because my best friend’s father was the vice president of engineering and after college I just gravitated towards sales and saw that I was good at it.”
Q: Is that the career you always saw yourself pursuing?
A: “No, if you look at my high school yearbook it actually says that I want to be a lawyer.”
Q: How long have you lived or worked in Hall County?
A: “We have lived here for four years on Dec. 18 and we just love it here.”
Q: What is your favorite restaurant in Hall County, and what do you love there?
A: “My favorite restaurant in Hall County is Scott’s on the Square and I love to eat the lobster tail, if it was up to me I would eat it everyday.”
Q: Who is the most interesting person you’ve met in Hall County and why?
A: “I would have to say the most interesting person I have met in Hall County would be Stan Appleton. He would be the most interesting because he is a really great guy and he is on the board of directors with me for ITN Lanier and he is just a fascinating well rounded guy that knows a lot about the area.”
Q: If you could travel anywhere in the world right now, where would it be and why?
A: “If I could travel anywhere right now I would take an Alaskan Cruise.”
Q: What advice would you give to a crowd of people?
A: “The old golden rule, do onto other as you would have them do onto you.”
Q: What is something on your bucket list?
A: “Finish my third book and go to the Super Bowl in 2019 here in Atlanta.”
Q: Choosing anyone (past or present and a non-relative), with whom would you love to have lunch? And where locally would you have this lunch?
A: “Deshaun Watson at the Longstreet Cafe.”
Q: Where do you see yourself in five or 10 years?
A: “Right at Cresswind continuing to stay healthy and traveling more.”
Q: What is something interesting that most people don’t know about you?
A: “I have recovered from two rounds of life threatening brain surgery and continued to stay healthy, I am healthier at 65 than I was at 25.”
Q: What three word mean “Home” to you?
A: “Family, Cresswind and Comfortable.”
The Faces of Hall County is a project to showcase the amazing people that live in our community. If you would like to nominate an interesting person to be featured please email babernathy@gonorton.com.