by Steven Higgs | Nov 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Editor’s note: The following essay was written in 2009 in The Bloomington Alternative as part of a series called “Forty Years in Bloomington: A Memoir.” Plan Colombia: Part 1 — Part 1, Wall Hangings and Cartegena Plan Colombia Part 2 — San...
by Steven Higgs | Nov 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
I’ve played the author game enough times to recognize the life cycle of ink on paper in the Digital Age. And, barring a lightning bolt, I’m certain that the coffee table book Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National: The Folk Hero and the Forest He Loves, will be a...
by Steven Higgs | Oct 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
Editor’s note: The following essay was written in 2009 in The Bloomington Alternative as part of a series called “Forty Years in Bloomington: A Memoir.” Plan Colombia: Part 1 — Part 1, Wall Hangings and Cartegena Plan Colombia Part 2 — San...
by Steven Higgs | Oct 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Editor’s note: The following essay was written in 2009 in The Bloomington Alternative as part of a series called “Forty Years in Bloomington: A Memoir.” Plan Colombia: Part 1 — Part 1, Wall Hangings and Cartegena Plan Colombia Part 2 —...
by Steven Higgs | Oct 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
When Pablo Escobar scotched my plans to photograph the Upper Amazon Rainforest in 1976, I turned to the closest jungle I could find to satisfy my innate desire to journalistically explore the woods – the Hoosier National Forest. Exactly one year after my first trip to...