{"id":2742,"date":"2004-08-12T04:09:37","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T18:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/12\/the-mysterious-h-john-heinz-iv\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T07:53:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:53:25","slug":"the-mysterious-h-john-heinz-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/12\/the-mysterious-h-john-heinz-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"The mysterious H. John Heinz IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10404,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.newsday.com\\\/entertainment\\\/ny-p2two3925354aug12,0,2488051.story?col&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.newsday.com\\\/entertainment\\\/ny-p2two3925354aug12,0,2488051.story?col&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10405,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/uk.groups.yahoo.com\\\/group\\\/utilikilt\\\/message\\\/15255&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.yahoo.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Of the various children and stepchildren of John Kerry and Teresa Heinz-Kerry, one has been conspicuously absent from all of the various political appearances and shenanigans: H. John Heinz IV, Teresa&#8217;s oldest child. As it turns out, he&#8217;s a very private man, doing his best to keep him and his family out of the limelight. A difficult task, I&#8217;m sure, especially with the current presidential campaign in full swing.<\/p>\n<p>Still, a few details do surface from time to time, and I&#8217;ve got to say that not only does John sounds like an incredibly accomplished and very interesting individual, he apparently also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/entertainment\/ny-p2two3925354aug12,0,2488051.story?col\" title=\"He wants to be left alone\">has impeccable fashion sense<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  What&#8217;s known is this: Heinz IV, 37, is an accomplished blacksmith who trained at Williamsburg, Va., and sometimes wears a workman&#8217;s kilt, called a &#8220;Utilikilt,&#8221; at his forge in rural Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>  He fabricates custom-made historical arms and armor, tools and architectural hardware, 10 percent down.<\/p>\n<p>  He&#8217;s a Buddhist who teaches meditation and who practices the Zen martial art of Shim Gum Do.<\/p>\n<p>  He was the founder and funder of a school for teenagers &#8220;at risk of not succeeding in life,&#8221; as Heinz IV himself once described it. For several years, the school was situated on a 136-acre tract he owns in Upper Black Eddy, Pa.<\/p>\n<p>  He cared for his daughter, Astrid, now 4, while his nutritionist wife, Kristann, 34, attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>  An artist, he drew the portrait for medallions given to recipients of Heinz Awards, which are offered, along with a \\$250,000 grant, in memory of his father, the late Sen.\u00a0John Heinz III (R-Pa.).<\/p>\n<p>  And he sits on the board of the \\$862-million Howard Heinz Endowment, chaired by his mother.<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  Heinz IV dubbed his made- to-order blacksmith business Herugrim, which in Old English means &#8220;fierce in war,&#8221; his Web site says. Heinz IV&#8217;s forge specializes in medieval-style helmets, cutting tools (swords, knives, axes and chisels), hinges, locks and nails. Most of the hardware he fabricates is for 18th century homes and buildings.<\/p>\n<p>  There is evidence that Heinz IV can be generous to a fault. When the Utilikilts team, based in Seattle, showed up for a Pennsylvania festival, they transported plenty of kilts, leather and otherwise, but they had no room for their tent or display racks.<\/p>\n<p>  Their Web site says &#8220;Utilikiltarian&#8221; Heinz IV came to the rescue, fabricating display racks in a four-hour session at his forge.<\/p>\n<p>  A festival photo shows Heinz IV smiling and playful in a mock chorus line, with everyone in kilts. For the camera, he coyly lifts his kilt to mid-thigh, far above his scuffed dark workboots and rolled-down socks.<\/p>\n<p>  A Utilikilts representative declined to comment, but the company Web site says Heinz IV and his wife &#8220;stepped up to take excellent care of us.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Best of luck to John and his family in the coming months &#8212; but at the same time, I&#8217;ll keep hoping to see a guy in a kilt show up at some important presidental function eventually&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(via the <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.groups.yahoo.com\/group\/utilikilt\/message\/15255\" title=\"Another UK'er in the news\">Yahoo! Utilikilts Group<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;White Whisper&#8221; by Deep Forest from the album <em>Deep Forest<\/em> (1992, 5:45).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the various children and stepchildren of John Kerry and Teresa Heinz-Kerry, one has been conspicuously absent from all of the various political appearances and shenanigans: H. John Heinz IV, Teresa&#8217;s oldest child. A few details do surface from time to time, and I&#8217;ve got to say that not only does John sounds like an incredibly accomplished and very interesting individual, he apparently also has impeccable fashion sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39,14],"class_list":["post-2742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}