The Spokesrider » Moscow – 2008

Moscow tavern

Spokesrider — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:49:47 +0000

When Black Hawk came through here in the 1820s, on his way to Fort Malden, there was no Moscow. On his last trip, in 1830, there would have been a new, log-cabin tavern. When the militias from Lenawee County and the Detroit area came through here in 1832, on their way to defend the territory [...]

Reuben White again

Spokesrider — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:20:46 +0000

Saturday on my way to Moscow I stopped here, across the road from the Convis township hall. It’s a place where I had stopped once before, on a Thanksgiving Day ride in 2006. I couldn’t remember the name of the person, a militia veteran of the Black Hawk war, who had farmed here years afterward, [...]

Moscow

Spokesrider — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:10:08 +0000

Moscow is at the bottom of a valley formed by the Kalamazoo River, which is just a small stream here. I don't think I'm the only person to have thought of the village as a Sleepy Hollow sort of place. Sundown comes early down at the bottom.

Calhoun County Amish

Spokesrider — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:21:49 +0000

On my Sunday ride back home, I passed through a small Amish settlement in in the southeast-most township of Calhoun County, Michigan. I took this photo of what I take to be an Amish business as one to use when I try to explain that the Amish people are not anti-technology. They’re constantly adopting new [...]

A successful nap

Spokesrider — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:18:22 +0000

I got back tonight from an overnight bike trip, the first one of 2008, and the first self-contained trip since July 2006. My destination was Moscow, 65 miles from home, along Black Hawk’s old road in Hillsdale County. Yesterday I had a stiff wind at my back, but even so I didn’t go very fast. [...]