Even though I’ve collected cameras for 30 years, I’ve only had a decent everyday camera for the past few years. By “decent,” I mean a point-and-shoot camera with autofocus and zoom, by no means anything fancy. I am a cheapskate, you see. I used garage-sale fixed-focus cameras until my budding road hobby made me [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘US 31’
2 March 2009
270 miles of history
If you’ve ever read my blog before, you know about my fascination with the Michigan Road. It’s Indiana’s first state-funded road, built in the 1830s to connect southern Indiana to northern Indiana through the capital at Indianapolis. Amazingly, it is still mostly intact. With a couple minor detours, you can drive all of it still [...]
3 February 2009
A historic byway
For more about the Michigan Road Historic Byway project, see www.historicmichiganroad.org.
In case you hadn’t noticed, the Michigan Road has been coming out of my ears during the past 12 months. I made my first excursion along the road last February, and then during 2008’s warm months drove it end to end, photographing everything I found [...]
10 November 2008
Tired old bridge
A friend and I were cruising through southern Indiana one warm early-autumn day, skirting Camp Atterbury’s eastern boundary on an old alignment of US 31, when we came upon a narrow bridge with obvious and unattractive guardrail repair.
This bridge matters because it is on the Madison State Road, completed in 1824 to link the Ohio [...]
16 September 2008
The Corbin house
I had no idea that this house was historically significant when I photographed it last year. It stands among many others along the Michigan Road on the north side of Plymouth, Indiana. I took pictures of many of these houses, but lingered longest before this one. It had the strongest presence.
When blogger Hoosier Reborn saw this photo [...]
