by Steven Higgs | May 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The following are snippets drawn from a 30-minute conversation with Jeff Stant on a hike through the Charles C. Deam Wilderness to a stand of old-growth hickories, which were as magnificent as he said they would be. This was the second of a series...
by Steven Higgs | Apr 24, 2026 | Uncategorized
I’ve titled the April Revisiting the Deam feature in Limestone Post after my original color photography muse Eliot Porter’s 1963 coffee table book The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado. Here’s the working lead to Waldrip Ridge: The Place No...
by Steven Higgs | Apr 18, 2026 | Uncategorized
To connect any dots between Southern Indiana and Northern Finland where we will be in six weeks, I had to trace back through 25,000 years of human history, give or take a few millennia. When we drive in May along the Swedish border from Rovaniemi, Finland, to Alta,...
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...
