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56 Our Brown County • March / April 2015
WILDERNESS BALLADS continued from 54 Advance tickets are available from the Literacy Coalition office( 812-988-6960) at Brown County Library, and from coalition members.
The weekend also features the National Maple Syrup Festival in Nashville, which Grimm sees as a great connection to the concert. Both are examples of doing things by hand, he says, on a human scale, and represent windows into a simpler time.
The“ Wilderness” tales hold important messages for both Sanders and Grimm.
“ For better and for worse, many of our attitudes toward nature and native people were shaped by the period of settlement, which in Ohio and Indiana occurred roughly between 1780 and 1840,” Sanders said.
“ The experience of driving out the indigenous people, cutting down the forests, draining the wetlands, and plowing the prairies gave us an exaggerated sense of our power and of Nature’ s inexhaustibility. In order to address racism, environmental degradation, exploitation of the commons, glorification of violence, and other problems that beset us today, we need to understand that they have their roots in our frontier past,” Sanders said. Grimm relates on another level, as well.“ We have an innate desire or need to sit around the campfire— or the front porch, so to speak— and tell our stories and listen to others tell theirs,” Grimm said.“ It’ s the essence of being human, of knowing where we come from. And more importantly for me, in this day and age, these stories of the past inform us about our present and future and take us out of our self-absorbed moment in history.” •
YELLOWWOOD continued from 53 forest. The trees come over the road, and you have to cross through the creek— most people just love that experience.”
“ We want to try to preserve this as part of the fabric of Brown County,” Cagle said.“ I think the county commissioners need to understand that all this scenic beauty is Brown County’ s commodity— that’ s why people come here to live and why people come here to visit.
“ Once you monkey with that, after you destroy it, you can’ t go back. I think they need to think very carefully about whether they support this.”
Allen said there will be a public meeting April 18 at the Yellowwood Forest Office to discuss the proposed road improvement project. •