The Spokesrider

I noticed that I still hadn’t added Charlie Myer’s Backroads of Indiana to my blogroll.  I’ve now done so. The photo is one I took last October 21 when approaching Rockville in Parke County.   That day’s ride was from Crawfordsville to Rockville to Terre Haute.   I took a Charlie Myer route almost all the way.   [...]

I wondered if my route to New Madrid last October 26 had taken me through some of the places that have been flooded this week when a mile-long section of levee was blown up to protect the town of Cairo and other places. The answer is no, not quite.   On the above map my route [...]

It took me a while to find these photos, but an article by Mark T. Mitchell over at Front Porch Republic (Farmers Ditch Tractors for…Oxen?) reminded me that on one of my rides past the Tillers International site north of Scotts MI, I had seen oxen at work.   A New York Times article (On Small [...]

In the last post there is an October 3 2011 2010 photo of Nicholsville, taken from the south.   This is the view upon approaching the village from the north. And here is one from downtown Nicholsville. According to the 1882 county history, Nicholasville, which contains a population of about one hundred, possessed two stores, a [...]

The Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin (which we visited week before last) is now a museum and a reminder of British oppression of Irish people.  The leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising were executed here, though not in this courtyard. Executions by firing squad took place in this yard. This place isn’t exactly a part of [...]

The Rev. Isaac S. Ketcham’s gravestone is the big one on the left.  His wife, Sarah, outlived him but got a smaller gravestone — the one to the right of Isaac’s. BTW, up until now I have been spelling the name as Ketchum rather than Ketcham.    I’ve seen it spelled Ketchum in several places, [...]

This White tractor seems not to have moved since the soybean field on which it sits was planted.   There isn’t much excuse for posting a photo of it, but it reminds me that we once had better Michigan weather for riding than we do today.     Maybe someday we will again have such days. The tractor [...]