Herkimer Alum Publishes Third Book
Alumnus and Author Kevin Hall releases his latest book Signs, The Veil Is Thinner Than We Imagine
- Rees Trenholm
On February 14, Kevin Hall ’81 Computer Science, released his latest book Signs, The Veil Is Thinner Than We Imagine. Hall has written two books over the past two years and just recently released his third book. Most of Hall’s work has been on life stories and events, but now he has delved into the different genres of spiritual and religious. “I’m writing this book not from necessarily a religious tone but a spiritual one,” Hall explained. “One that says the Veil is thin at times and there are communications from the other side.”
Hall wasn’t always a writer. He studied computer science and spent his career programming computers and working in project management. Hall would tell his grandchildren stories of his childhood, and when he retired in 2017, he decided to put his stories on paper. Hall wrote a short story to give to his family, and after receiving great feedback on that story, he has now successfully written three books. His first book, Ilion, My Childhood, My Memories: Growing up in a By-Gone Era, became the most checked-out book at the Ilion Library in 2022. His second book is entitled My Rosemount MN. Memories: Teenage Years in My Shoes. 
His latest work takes a bit different turn from his past two. Over the years Hall has experienced and heard of many miraculous stories that were more than a coincidence, and this is where the idea for the book came from. “This book kind of dragged me into writing it, feeling compelled to share mine and others stories,” Hall said.
At the beginning of the book, Hall talks about five major ways signs can come to you and about people’s experiences and how the things that happened to them were more than coincidences. Throughout the book, the types of stories range from survivors of 9/11, a man who landed a plane after the pilot died and a man who sees a vision and then goes on to create the world’s hottest pepper.
Hall also incorporates history into the book and references the Egyptians, the Romans, the American Indian and cultures of various areas such as China, Japan and India regarding their beliefs about communications with the spiritual realm beyond the Veil. These are just a few topics of many that he writes about in his book.
Hall said his goal for the reader is to feel hope and to realize that SIGNS are all around them. Hall adds, "This isn’t it; we do go on.”
Hall’s books can be found online at Amazon, B&N, Goodreads, Walmart, eBay, and his website kevin-hall.com.
Rees Trenholm is a sophomore at Herkimer College, majoring in Communications and Media, and a member of the Public Relations Department’s Street Team.