On Sunday’s ride, as usual I stopped briefly at the site of the Door Village fort that had been built during the Black Hawk war. Since the last time I was here a wooden sign had been added to complement the stone marker that had been erected in 1909. And it looks like the owners of the property have got into the spirit of things by placing a cannon near their front porch. I am not aware that the Michigan militiamen who stayed here on their way to Chicago had any cannons with them, but still, I thought it was a nice touch.
Last weekend I salvaged three days of what was supposed to have been a week-long outing. The first day I rode to Bristol, IN (70 miles). We spent most of the second at the Elkhart County Historical Museum and a historic house, ending with a 30 mile ...
Just before my brief, aborted trip earlier this week, I got a Nikon D60 camera. Someone at work had called my attention to the fact that SLR cameras had now come down in price. The D60 was within the range I was authorized to spend, and it's ...
Well, that didn't work so well. We're back home tonight, after one night in McLean County, Illinois. We were planning to spend most of the week there and in other parts of Illinois, but it'll have to wait for another time. All I got was one ...
Today while planning some of my Illinois bicycling destinations, I came across a mention of a man from Carroll County who claimed to have been a captain of a company of volunteers in the Black Hawk War -- The White Oak Springs Volunteers. I have found references to such ...
