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,...
by Steven Higgs | Mar 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Terrill Ridge Trail offers a perfect microcosm of the Deam Wilderness human history. Within the Hoosier National Forest’s four-mile, in-and-out trek lie examples of the landscape’s century-plus relations with humankind: a pioneer homesite and family...
by Steven Higgs | Mar 19, 2026 | Uncategorized
When we emerged in Mocagua from our hike to the Maikuchiga Monkey Sanctuary, our Casa Gregorio guide Stan told my daughters I looked like I was made of water. It had indeed been a hot, humid, and sweaty trek through the Colombian jungle to the rehabilitation and...
by Steven Higgs | Mar 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
While Yecla, Spain, is known for its Monastrell wine, it will always be the home of Monte Arabí to me, in addition to the town’s status as home to two of the three Colombian expatriate Martinez girls, of course. Looming some 3,500 feet above the Mediterranean...
by Steven Higgs | Mar 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
The luminescent yellow daffodil blooms scattered along the roadside were the first indications that a higher spirit was on call during a Saturday morning drive through the Charles C. Deam Wilderness. Given the season and forecast, the mission was simple and...
by Steven Higgs | Mar 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
I should have known better than to venture to the Charles C. Deam Wilderness with lowered expectations. The mission for this drive for pleasure across the forested razorback called Tower Ridge Road was to discover if the Road Closed Ahead sign just past the Blackwell...
