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Calhoun County MI

• 07.11.08
  Mighty Uldriks has fallen
  Calhoun County MI (2)

  On yesterday's ride home from work, I stopped to take this photo close to home. The road has been Uldriks Drive for the 30 years we've lived in the area, and probably for a lot longer than that. But a year or so ago this sign with a new name appeared: "1 Mile Road." Uldriks has been demoted to smaller letters. Some of the roads in Calhoun County have long been named this-or-that mile road: 12 mile road for the north-south road 12 miles from the west edge of the county, and so ...
  
  
• 05.28.08
  School in Albion Township
  Calhoun County MI, Schools (0)

  More from my May 17 ride to Moscow. Almost any excuse will do for a stop along the way. This old schoolhouse in Albion Township caught my attention. It doesn't seem to have been converted into a residence, like so many old one-room schools have. But do the two front doors mean this was a two-room school? It's not as large a building as the two-room school I attended in rural Nebraska. I'll call it a one-room school. This schoolyard still has the frame from a swingset and teeter-totter. That's not something one sees very ...
  
  
• 05.23.08
  Four generations of Whites
  Calhoun County MI (2)

  Yesterday I speculated that the homeowner I met on last Saturday's ride may have, when he was a boy, met the grandchildren of Reuben White, who had served in the militia during the 1832 Black Hawk war. There's a good chance that I now know the names of those old people who would come to look at the old house. The 1916 History of Calhoun County tells about four generations of the White family. I'll bet those were great-grandchildren, not grandchildren, and that they were three of the following: Thera, Guy, Glenn, and Esther. And they ...
  
  
• 05.22.08
  Reuben White again
  Calhoun County MI, Moscow - 2008 (0)

  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, but it never hurts to get another photo. I took my photo and headed back to my bike on the other side of the road. A man came out of the house, yelling at me, asking why I was taking pictures. ...
  
  
• 05.20.08
  Calhoun County Amish
  Amish country, Calhoun County MI, Moscow - 2008 (1)

  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 technologies, but are very deliberate about what they adopt. They consider carefully the effect any new technology will have on family, social, and spiritual life. There was nobody to be seen at this homestead. Everyone was at Sunday morning church service. I first became aware of this ...
  
  

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