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• 04.19.08
  A destination
  Fulton County IN (0)

  I used this photo in a talk I gave for the Delton Area Rotary Club this Thursday morning. My friend Wes Knollenberg had invited me. We've known each other since at least 1981, but don't see a lot of each other, and especially not in the last several years. The photo is from Fulton County, Indiana. This is an east-west road that makes a jog here (and in many other such places) because the survey of the Michigan Road lands didn't quite line up with the survey of the rest of the land after it was ceded ...
  
  
• 03.29.08
  Michigan Road
  Fulton County IN, Rochester base camp - 2007 (0)

  The old Michigan Road, north from Rochester, Indiana, is a reasonably nice place for a bicycle. U.S. 31 now bypasses the old road, leaving this one good for riding. This afternoon I made a map showing the route of the old Michigan Road through the entire length of Indiana, from the Madison on the Ohio River, to Michigan City. (If you click on it, you can see the whole thing.) I got to wondering about a bicycle ride the entire length of it. There are places where it's probably not the best for riding, and some places ...
  
  
• 10.05.07
  Theology of the grave
  Barry County MI, Fulton County IN, Knox County IN (2)

  This is the gravesite of Nawehquageezhik (Noonday) and his wife, Somonoque, at the east end of Cressey Road in Barry County, Michigan. The gravestone is in the mowed area to the right of the bicycle. This story of this gravestone is connected with another gravestone near Vincennes, Indiana, that I'm hoping to ride to this year yet. There are a few degrees of separation, though. Noonday's grave is here because the Slater mission was located here in the late 1830s. Leonard Slater's mission was a part of Isaac McCoy's Baptist missions in southwest Michigan. Slater operated ...
  
  
• 10.03.07
  Aubbeenaubbee reserve line
  Fulton County IN (0)

  A lot of the roads in the upper midwest follow section lines, creating a checkerboard pattern on the landscape. A lot of roads depart from these section lines, too. At this intersection in Fulton County Indiana, County Road 400W follows a section line. County Road 475N does not. Instead, it follows what had once been the south boundary of Aubbeenaubbee's reserve. This reserve only existed for 6-7 years, from the time of a treaty made in late 1832 in which the Potawatomi people ceded most of their remaining land in ...
  
  
• 10.02.07
  Technology that yields
  Fulton County IN (0)

  This photo was taken September 10 a few miles south of Rochester, Indiana.  Talk about your mixed blessings.  Technology yields cheap food, which means that instead of living at a subsistence level we are wealthy enough to take time off from work to ride out and see the countryside.   It also makes it possible to farm with less labor, which yields abandoned farms and a depopulated countryside.
  
  

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