This is the National House in Marshall, Michigan. The photo was taken in 2002, a year when I did not do much bicycling. I’ve ridden to this place many times, though. It’s about 20 miles from home. There are several stories in Marshall connected to the Black Hawk war scare, and the town is a [...]
On a weekend tour to Koskiusko County, Indiana in October 2006, I went out of my way to ride on roads that had oddly-placed turns, like the one pictured above. Most of the roads that run straight east-west or north-south follow section lines, but there are some, like this one, that do not. It doesn’t [...]
This was from my first photo stop on Sunday afternoon’s bike ride, about 12 miles from home. The land for sale is on Climax Prairie in Kalamazoo County. I suppose the scene doesn’t look very interesting, but the place is interesting to me because of a much earlier land sale. Andrew Hays of Marshall, MI [...]