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• 04.03.09
  Noble commodities
  2008-Jun-01, Noble County IN (0)

  No bike rides for me last weekend. On Saturday Myra had an all-day church meeting near Howe, Indiana. She had had surgery earlier in the week and wasn't up driving there herself. But she knows how much I like riding in that part of Indiana. She suggested I drive her down and spend the day riding. I liked the way she was thinking but the weather forecast didn't cooperate. Strong winds, occasional rain, and temperatures in the mid-high 30s didn't sound too inviting -- especially the windy part. I suggested ...
  
  
• 06.10.08
  Hawville
  2008-Jun-01, Amish country, LaGrange County IN, Noble County IN (0)

  I've already written about the surprise of my first-ever ride to Topeka in LaGrange County, Indiana. This was the road by which I rode on that day in 1997. The above sign about "Life in the Past Lane" wasn't there back then. This is downtown Topeka, facing west (again). Just down the street and on the right is a gas station/convenience store where I usually fuel up with a Subway BLT. I had timed my arrival in Topeka for a noon lunchtime break. Topeka has a town marshall. (I also see that I took a photo of myself in the window.) I ...
  
  
• 06.09.08
  Mistaken memory
  2008-Jun-01, LaGrange County IN (0)

  Last week, in telling about the previous Sunday's ride, I explained how after taking a mile of gravel road, I came to a place where I decided to continue on gravel instead of taking the paved road. Here's the intersection where I made that decision. Except I remembered it wrong. I didn't take the gravel road; I took the paved one instead. A few days after I wrote about it, I was tracing my route on a map and just couldn't find a place where I would have gone an extra mile on gravel. Then ...
  
  
• 06.08.08
  David Rogers, land speculator
  2008-Jun-01, LaGrange County IN (0)

  Douglas Hurt writes about land speculators in "The Ohio Frontier" (1996). Smaller property owners resented the land speculators, not because they owned more land than everyone else, but because they didn't pay much in taxes. If they were required to pay taxes at the same rate as others, they would have to sell their parcels to smaller landowners who would then develop it, mostly to make farms out of it. And (though it hasn't been mentioned by Hurt so far in my reading) the land would then get improved, which would raise property values for everyone. ...
  
  
• 06.08.08
  David Rogers Park
  2008-Jun-01, LaGrange County IN (0)

  The David Rogers Park is near the south end of HawPatch road, at the head of a branch of the Elkhart River. I nominate it for the world's most tranquil, refreshing rural park. Maybe it's different when a lot of people are here, but I've hardly ever found other people here. One time it was the site of girl scouts campout, or something of that sort, but that still didn't make me think differently of it. I wish it had more of a connection to the Black Hawk story, but unfortunately, David Rogers, though one of ...
  
  

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