The Spokesrider

In a past post (“Consort“) I mentioned that I had looked in my photos for an exception to the rule that the term consort on a gravestone referred to a woman who died before her husband.    I see that towards the end of the same ride on which I had taken photos of “consort” gravestones [...]

I don’t do much self-contained touring, but this photo is from a solo, self-contained tour I took in late May 2001, from Champaign IL to places on the Wabash River and then home. It rained almost every day and my bike was plagued with flats and broken spokes on that trip, but it was a [...]

On Wednesday August 6 I wanted to see if there was still a farmstead at a place in Fountain County, Indiana, where a false scare of Indian war had taken place in 1826. It was a place where other settlers were said to have gone for safety. I stopped here at a half-mile post along [...]