The Spokesrider

(October 1, continued) I’m not quite ready to leave the William Helm gravestone and story just yet.   (Helm’s  gravestone is just to the left of the front end of the bicycle — the larger stone that’s standing straight.) I hadn’t realized until now that William Helm is connected with a story I had been following [...]

Charles Chauncey Wells assured me in a private e-mail that the official list of Boston Tea Partiers is carefully vetted.  It takes more than a claim in an old county history to get accepted. It looks like Nicholas Kemmer’s military service, at least, was well enough documented to get the D.A.R. to put a marker [...]

(1 October 2011, continued) The next stop was Bentonville, where I hoped to find the grave of Nicholas Kemmer.  This is a view from the north. This is looking north at the main intersection in downtown Bentonville.   The 1885 county history says, “The hamlet-to-day, in a business sense, consists of one blacksmith shop, three groceries, [...]

(1 October 2011, continued)  The 1885 history of Fayette County tells of a Nicholas Kemmer who had been at the original Boston Tea Party in 1773, disguised as an Indian. Nicholas was born in Germany and emigrated to this country previous to the Revolutionary war, when eighteen years old.  He was one of the band [...]

(1 October 2011, continued) This was my 2nd ride of the summer through New Lisbon.   This time I stopped for more photos because in between the two rides I learned that Elder Elijah Martindale had referred to his being influenced by a Mother Buck who lived here. As I understand it, this Christian Church is [...]

  (October 1, 2011) I was ten miles into the first of four day rides before I stopped here for photos, where the land starts to drop down into a little valley that holds the Flatrock River. I had stopped here to enjoy the view back on August 27 (Flatrock River Crossing). Unfortunately, even though [...]

We stayed at the Mulberry Lane Inn for four days of bicycling last October.      It’s just off of US-36 near Mt. Summit, between New Castle and Muncie. The hosts, Deana and Joe Harris, don’t do internet, so they may never see this.  Unless, that is,  we go back sometime, which we may very [...]