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Bremen base camp - 2007

• 09.14.07
  menomonee
  Bremen base camp - 2007, Marshall County IN (0)

  Here's a photo of the Spokesrider from August, on a day ride from Bremen to Bruce Lake to Rochester, IN.  I picked this photo for today, September 14, because today a ceremony was held there to place a Trail of Death marker.  (The Trail of Death is also known as the Trail of Courage in local events commemorating it.)  The man depicted in the statue is Menominee, a Potawatomi leader who refused to sign the treaty by which the last remaining land in Indiana was taken from them.   He wouldn't really have worn a headress like that, but this ...
  
  
• 09.07.07
  Familiar pack of dogs
  Bremen base camp - 2007, Marshall County IN (0)

  I stopped to take a snapshot of this barn early in a ride to Bruce Lake.  It wasn't too many miles south of Bremen.   A dog was barking somewhere in the background. When I got back on my bike, a whole pack of beagle-like dogs came out on the road to greet me.  Suddenly I remembered.  I had been here before!  I had encountered this same dog pack last September, though the dogs were a little smaller then.   Unfortunately I didn't stop to take a photo.  Last time I hadn't known what to expect from them at first, but ...
  
  
• 09.06.07
  Tamarack House
  Amish country, Bremen base camp - 2007, LaGrange County IN (1)

  After visiting the Frederick Garver neighborhood on August 12, I headed as straight west as possible. My destination was a place once known as the Tamarack House, on the south edge of LaGrange County, near Wolcottville. By the way, there is a community of beardless Amish on the east side of Goshen. Except they may be Mennnonites, not Amish. The men are all clean shaven, but there are the usual horse-drawn buggies, similar to others in this part of the world. I wish I knew more about how that came to be, and what their ...
  
  
• 09.01.07
  Garver again
  Amish country, Bremen base camp - 2007, Elkhart County IN, Garver Lake - 2007 (0)

  The destination for the second day's ride from Bremen was on the south edge of LaGrange county, 50 miles from camp if I went the short way, which I did not. First I wanted to look for the grave of Frederick Garver, west of Goshen. I had come here back in early June and had looked at a lot of cemeteries, but I somehow neglected to ride an extra mile to the place where he had actually lived. On the way I saw this Amish ballfield. At least I presume it's Amish. There were some Amish homes right ...
  
  
• 08.28.07
  Toisa’s village
  Bremen base camp - 2007, Fulton County IN (0)

  After taking a quick look at Talma, I rode back to the west side of the river, and then south towards Rochester. Toisa's village and reservation had been here Now there is a different sort of riverside village -- lots of cottages and mobile homes, some of them in not very good condition. I haven't been able to find much information about Toisa. His name is on a few treaty documents. At one point there was talk of his going with Aubenaubee to visit the Choctaw academy for Indians in Kentucky, but I don't know if the two of ...
  
  

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