by Steven Higgs | Apr 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
After writing the story of Roscoe Hayes’s life in the Charles C. Deam Wilderness – he ended up living in a hollow beech tree – I decided to return to the Hayes Trail, one of my favorite Hoosier National Forest treks. While it was a perfect day for a wilderness walk,...
by Steven Higgs | Apr 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
I’ve long maintained that I have the heart of an anthropologist, that had I taken anthropology for an elective freshman year instead of sociology, I might have had a different life; so, staying in the village of San Martin de Amacayacu with a few hundred Ticuna...
by Steven Higgs | Apr 5, 2026 | Uncategorized
Spending two days exploring Barcelona with Patricia and Luz as my guides to one of the world’s great cities was a magical experience. It was the only time during my week and a half in Spain that I and the “girls” – whom I hadn’t seen since they were teenagers 46 years...
by Steven Higgs | Apr 3, 2026 | Uncategorized
As I count the days to my three-quarter-century mark, the life circles grow ever larger. Since August, I wrote a book about one character from the dawn of my professional career in 1985; and I wrote a column about a hike with another. On Saturday, I will introduce...
by Steven Higgs | Mar 29, 2026 | Uncategorized
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,...
