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.” We had learned in Cartegena that artisans wove the wall hangings I was importing through Steven C Imports...
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.” My first trip to Colombia on my way to the Amazon River was actually pretty ridiculous. Travel...
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...
by Steven Higgs | Oct 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
To suggest that Tabatinga’s Mirador Komara is the best place for sunset over the Amazon River would be folly, given the enormity of the river’s geographic expanse. But the outdoor club on the southern outskirts of the Brazilian city would make any list, especially if...
