PHOTO ARCHIVE: Charles C. Deam Wilderness — Terrill Ridge Trail, 2016, 2026

A hike with Teena Ligman through the pioneer history of the Charles C. Deam Wilderness for an upcoming Revisiting the Deam Limestone Post piece served as a gateway into my photo past, inspiring this Photo Archive of images from Terrill Ridge captured 10 years apart, in March 2016 and March 2026.

The piece has a working title of Roscoe Hayes and Other Human Legends from the Indiana Wilderness, will run in early April, and tells the tale of an old man who lived in a tree. In the story, we walk and talk about life in today’s Deam from 1826 until nature proved it was untamable a century later.

Teena is a retired, 42-year veteran of the U.S. Forest Service and has written and spoken about the Deam’s human history — including the 12,000 years Native Americans hunted its rugged wooded hillsides. We hiked the four-mile round trip along Terrill Ridgte to the Terrill Cemetery, which I last photographed exactly 10 years ago.

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