Page numbers in bold refer to illustrations.
Adamson, Friederike Victoria “Joy,” 74
Adamson, George, 74
Adena (prehistoric people), 9–10
Agyani, Braj Kishan Koul, 132
Allegheny-Kanawha Plateau, 1–2, 3
American Racing Pigeon Union, 93–94
Amish, 146–58; children of, 154–56; farming by, 146, 149–51; inception of and beliefs of, 146–48; lifestyle of, 149, 151–54, 156–58; women’s roles, 155–56
“Among School Children” (Yeats), 75
Anabaptist Movement, 147
Animals and Other People (Bromfield), 134
Anson farm, 135
“Appleseed John.” See Chapman, John (“Johnny Appleseed”)
Arnovitz Farm, 176
Ashland County: and Chapman (“Johnny Appleseed”), 98–99, 101, 105; development and environmental issues of, 175–82; farms of, 36–37 (see also Wedding Pines); Mennonite church in, 149; Muskingum Watershed, 16, 99, 101, 110, 114–15, 179; Planning Commission, 176
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, 68
Athens County, 11
At the Birth of an Age (Jeffers), 20
Ballou, Maturin M., 46
B&O Railroad, 113
Bardolph (Hansel, cat), 80–81
Bass, Rick, 123–24
Battle of Fallen Timbers, 104
Belmont County, 12
Berry, Wendell: “A Good Scythe,” 64; “Home of the Free,” 73; Upanishads, 75; “The Wild,” 11
Big Darby Creek, 11
Bluebird Farm, 172–73
Bodie (cat), 93
Boone, Daniel, 4
Braiding Sweetgrass (Kimmerer), 78
Brethren, 147
Bridge of Dreams (Knox County), 110–16, 111
Brinkhaven (community), 111
Brinkhaven Dam, 111–12
Brinkhaven Road Bridge, 111
Bromfield, Louis, 126–45; Animals and Other People, 134; biographical information about, 131–32; Early Autumn, 133; economic and political views of, 140–42; The Farm, 135; on farming, 137–40; FBI on, 143–44; A Few Brass Tacks, 134; From My Experience, 134; A Good Woman, 133; Great House at Malabar Farm, 136–37; The Green Bay Tree, 132, 133; legacy of, 129–31, 144–45; Malabar Farm (book), 127, 129–31, 134, 137, 139–40, 142–45, 150; Malabar Farm land purchased by, 134–36; Malabar Farm modern-day description, 126–29; A Modern Hero, 132; A New Pattern for a Tired World, 134; Out of the Earth, 134; Pleasant Valley, 108, 130–31, 134–35, 137, 139–42, 144–45; Possession, 133; pump invention by, 128; The Rains Came, 132; spiritual views of, 142–43; writing style of, 132–34
Bromfield, Mary Appleton Wood, 129, 132, 134
Brumfield, Annette Coulter, 131
Brumfield, Charles, 131
Bryan, William Jennings, 41
“Buckeye” (Sanders), 1–2
Buckles, Ave, 101
Budget, The (Amish newspaper), 149
Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation, 179
Callahan’s Grayfell (horse), 20–21, 31, 33, 61
Carpenter, George, 104
Carroll County, 117–25
Cavelier, René-Robert. See la Salle, René-Robert Cavelier de (Sieur)
Ceres (hen), 82
Chapman, Elizabeth Simonds, 100
Chapman, John (“Johnny Appleseed”), 98–109; biographical information about, 100–103; death of, 109; legacy of, 108–9; and Native Americans, 103–6; orchard near George’s Run, 167; and Swedenborgianism, 106–8; tributes to, 98–100; and Wedding Pines, 38
Chapman, Lucy Cooley, 100
Chapman, Nathaniel, 100
Charles Mill Dam, 114
Charles Mill Lake, 114
Chesapeake, 179
Christian Bible (New Testament), Amish on, 148
Church of the New Jerusalem, 106
Civilian Conservation Corps, 9, 115
Clairouin, Denyse, 143
Clark, George Rogers, 104
Clean Air Act, 171
Clear Creek Township, 149
Clear Fork (tributary), 110, 113
Clear Fork Gorge State Nature Preserve, 113
Clinton Shale, 179
Colleen (dog), 42, 56, 72, 79–83, 85, 91
Cooper, James Fenimore, 103
Copus, James (Prophet, Shawnee chief), 99, 104–5
Cornplanter (Native American leader), 167
Cornstalk (Shawnee chief), 104
Corson (Ohio school commissioner), 40–41
Countryside Alliance, 120
Craig, James, 102
Crane Creek Wildlife Research Station (Magee Marsh), 8
Crawford, Sarah, 101
Cronon, William, 2
Cuyahoga River, 6–7
Delaware (Lenni-Lenape, Native Americans): Chapman (“Johnny Appleseed”) and, 98–99, 104–5, 108; in Greentown, 113; in Jefferson County, 167; walking land of, 16; Zaleski trail used by, 10
Denison University, 103
Devon Energy Corporation, 179
Dimock Township (Pennsylvania), 179
Duke (dog), 79
Dunmore’s War, 167
Dysart Woods, 11
Early Autumn (Bromfield), 133
Elizabeth of Austria, 119
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 175
Enclosure Acts, 27
Energy Policy Act (2005), 12
England, foxhunting in, 120, 122
“English,” Amish on, 148, 154–56
environmental issues: and ecology as regeneration, 1–12; and fracking, 166–74. See also habitat
Farm, The (Bromfield), 135
Farm, The (quarterly), 47
FBI, on Bromfield, 143–44
Ferguson, John, 135
Ferguson farm, 135
Fern Leaves from Fanny’s Port-Folio (book), 46
Few Brass Tacks, A (Bromfield), 134
Firelands, 35
Fitzsimmons, David, 85
Fleming, Alice Grafton, 47
Fleming, Deborah: ancestors of, 44–51; foxhunting by, 117–25; home of (see Wedding Pines); pets of, 79–82 (see also horses)
Fleming, James Harlan J., 45, 46, 52
Fleming farm (purchased by Bromfield), 135
flood of 1913, 114
4-H, 28
foxhunting, 117–25
France, Bromfield in, 132, 134–35, 137, 141, 143–44
From My Experience (Bromfield), 134
Frost, Robert, 65–66
Frye, Dick, 110
Frye’s Landing, 112
Gaines, Elliot, 159–65
gardening, 57–77; autumn, 69–71; and importance of conservation, 75–77; seasons and adaptation, 57; spring, 58–61; summer, 61–69; winter, 71–73; work and active lifestyle in, 73–75
Geauga County, 146
George’s Run, 167
Gillet, Louis, 135
Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, 2, 3
Glacier National Park, 68–69
Gnadenhutten massacre, 113
Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, 74
“Good Scythe, A” (Berry), 64
Good Woman, A (Bromfield), 133
Granville, 103
Grayfell (horse), 20–21, 31, 33, 61
Great House at Malabar Farm, 136–37
Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, 7
Great Possessions (Kline), 150
Green Bay Tree, The (Bromfield), 132, 133
Greentown (Shawnee village): and Chapman (“Johnny Appleseed”), 98–99, 105, 109, 113; name of, 37–38
Green Township: development and environmental issues of, 177–79; name of, 35, 37
Greenville, 110–11
Gretel (cat), 80
Guinevere (hen), 82
habitat, 78–97; and domestic animals, 79–82; and inhabitants of farm, 78; insects of, 95–96; observing, 95, 98; and walking, 13–17; wild animals of, 82–87; wild birds of, 87–94
Hayesville Opera House, 40
Heckewelder, John, 104
Helltown, 113
Henry IV (Shakespeare), 151
Hera (hen), 81
Hillis, Newell Dwight, 100
Holland Land Company, 101
Holley, O. E., 40
Holmes County: Amish of, 147; Horse Progress Days in, 24, 159
“Home of the Free” (Berry), 73
homesteading, 159–65
Honey Creek: Mohican River watershed, 110; roads of, 76; and Wedding Pines location, 38–39
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 30
horses, 18–34; companions for, 30–31; foaling by, 18–21, 33–34; foxhunting with, 117–25; hierarchy of herds and behavior, 32–33; Horse Progress Days, 24, 159; imprinting of foals, 19, 21; riding and dressage, 26–29; upkeep of, 21–24
Huron (Native Americans), 10
Huron-Erie Lake Plains, 2, 3, 3
Huttonsville, 160
Ingham Station, 9
Jackson, Wes, 130, 136, 150, 159
Jacoby Greenbelt, 176
Jeffers, Robinson: At the Birth of an Age, 20; “Shine, Perishing Republic,” 140
Jefferson County: and Chapman (“Johnny Appleseed”), 98; early white settlers of, 5; environmental issues of, 166–74; woodlands of, 1
Jerome Fork, 110
J. M. Smucker Company, 99
John 18:36, Amish on, 148
Johnny Appleseed: Man and Myth (Price), 100–103, 105
“Johnny Appleseed.” See Chapman, John (“Johnny Appleseed”)
Johnny Appleseed and His Time (Pershing), 100–101, 105
Johnny Appleseed Memorial Society, 98–99
Jones, Levi, 105
Jones Third Reader (book), 46
Jonson, Ben, 151
J. W. Fleming and Son (dairy), 45
Keep Green Township Green, 178
Kestrel (horse), 23, 30, 32, 35
Kimmerer, Robin Wall, 78
Kinder-Morgan Company, 172–73
Kline, David, 149–50
Knox County: development and environmental issues of, 179; Mohican River, 110–16, 111, 112
Knox Dolomite Shale, 179
Krutch, Joseph Wood, 132
Kumin, Maxine, 57
la Salle, René-Robert Cavelier de (Sieur), 5
Last of the Mohicans, The (Cooper), 103
Lefty/Pumpkin (cat), 81
Leopold, Aldo: on farming, 66; on learning, 67; A Sand County Almanac, 130, 150; on sparrow nests, 90–91; “Thinking Like a Mountain,” 121; “Wildlife in American Culture,” 123
Lewis, General, 167
Licking County: author’s home in, 43, 98; orchards of, 101–2
Logan (Delaware leader), 167
Loudonville, 110
Luber, Mick, 172–73
MacKay-Smith, Alexander, 123
Malabar Farm (Bromfield), 127, 129–31, 134, 137, 139–40, 142–45, 150
Malabar Farm State Park: Bromley’s purchase of Malabar Farm land, 134–36; Great House at Malabar Farm, 136–37; location of, 36, 47; Malabar Farm (Bromfield), 127, 129–31, 134, 137, 139–40, 142–45; modern-day description, 126–29; and Mohican River, 115; wildlife as inhabitants of, 82, 85, 91. See also Bromfield, Louis
Marcellus Shale, 171–72
Matthiessen, Peter, 97
Maxwell, James, 167–68
McKirahan, W. W., 46
McKirahan family, 44
Miami Township, 176
Middleburg Hunt (Virginia), 119
Minerva (hen), 82
Mingo (Native Americans), 98
Modern Hero, A (Bromfield), 132
Mohican River, 110–16, 111, 112
Mohican State Park and Forest: location of, 35; Malabar Farm compared to, 126; restoration of, 115
Monroe, James, 135
Monsanto, 75–76
Muddy Fork, 110
Murphy, Audie, 45
Museum of Hounds and Hunting (Leesburg, Virginia), 119
Muskingum Watershed: and Chapman (“Johnny Appleseed”), 99, 101; and environmental issues, 179–80; and Mohican River, 110, 114–15; walking in, 16
Nader, Ralph, 14
National Day of Action on Fracking, 172
Native Americans: Ashland County history of, 37–38; and Chapman (“Johnny Appleseed”), 103–6; walking land of, 16; Zaleski trail used by, 10. See also Delaware (Lenni-Lenape, Native Americans); Shawnee (Native Americans)
“Natural Allies” (Williams), 122
“Nature” (Emerson), 175
Newark, 101–3
New Pattern for a Tired World, A (Bromfield), 134
New Republic, 132
New Testament, Amish on, 148
Newville, 113
New York, foxhunting in, 119
New Yorker, 132
Nissenson, Hugh, 100, 103, 105
Ohio: Department of Agriculture, 36; Department of Forestry, 11, 116; Division of Wildlife, 8
Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, 95
Ohio Arts and Sports Facilities Commission, 99
Ohio Company, 101
Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA), 66, 75–76
Ohio ecology as regeneration, 1–12; ecology efforts, 6–7; geological formations of Ohio, 1–2; native people and early migrants to, 4–5, 9–10; physiographic sections of, 2–3, 3; resources and exploitation, 5–6, 8–12, 12; trees and plants of, 7; water sources of, 1, 3–4; wildlife of, 6–8; and wildness, 11; Zaleski State Forest of, 8–11
Ohio River, 1
Ohio State University, 146
Old Northwest Territories, 5
Olentangy River, 14
Oliveti Cemetery, 129
Orange County Hunt (Virginia), 119
Ordinance of 1787, 35
Oslin, Irv, 110
Our Town, 75
Out of the Earth (Bromfield), 134
“Oven Bird, The” (Frost), 65–66
Owens, Clarke: on farm’s “inhabitants,” 79, 81, 82, 84, 86, 93; on seasons, 60, 70; and Wedding Pines, 35, 43, 51, 52, 54
Panic of September 1812, 105
Pankhurst, Emmeline, 41
Partlett (hen), 82
Payne, Adam, 103–4
Pearls of Thought (Ballou), 46
Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad (book), 46
Pennington, Charles, 41
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), 120
Perrysville, 37, 41, 98, 113, 187
Pershing, Henry A., 100–101, 105
Pertelote (hen), 82
“Phenomenon of Placelessness, The” (Vaughan), 180
Pleasant Hill Dam, 113
Pleasant Hill Lake State Park, 115
Pleasant Valley (Bromfield), 108, 130–31, 134–35, 137, 139–42, 144–45
Pony Club, 28
Possession (Bromfield), 133
Prophet (Shawnee chief), 99, 104–5
Prospect’s Callahan (horse), 19
Quest of John Chapman, The (Hillis), 100
Rains Came, The (Bromfield), 132
Randolph County, 160–65
Reed’s Mills/Red’s Mill, naming of, 16
Riley, James, 167
Romans 12:2, Amish on, 148
Ross, Joseph, 167
Saint Clair, General, 167
Sand County Almanac, A (Leopold), 130, 150
Sanders, Scott Russell, 1–2
Schieffelin, Eugene, 151
Schlatter, William, 107
Scratching the Woodchuck (Kline), 150
Shakespeare, William, 151
Shawnee (Native Americans): Ashland County history of, 37–38; and Chapman (“Johnny Appleseed”), 98–99, 103–6, 109, 113; ecology as resurrection of land, 10; and Greentown name, 98–99; walking land of, 16
Shawshank Redemption, The, 128
Sheldon’s 20th Century Letter Writer (book), 47
“Shine, Perishing Republic” (Jeffers), 140
Shio (pony), 30
Shrine Memorial Forest Park, 115
Sieur de la Salle. See la Salle, René-Robert Cavelier de (Sieur)
Silver Creek Ski Resort, 164
Smith, Edward S., 41
Smith, William, 99
Snow Leopard, The (Matthiessen), 97
Snowshoe Ski Resort, 164
Snyder, Gary, 130
Soxie (Socks Van Gogh, cat), 18, 80, 86
Sparks, S. E., 49
Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm von, 168
Steubenville, 13, 45, 101, 106, 168, 169
Struggles, Rev. T., 40
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (1977), 7
Swedenborgianism, 106–8
Tecumseh (Shawnee chief), 104
Tecumseh Land Trust, 176
“Thinking Like a Mountain” (Leopold), 121
Thoreau, Henry David: on farming, 66–67; Walden, 176; “Walking,” 175
Timber Framers Guild, 129
Toby’s Run, 133–34
Treaty of 1795, 104
Tree of Life, The (Nissenson), 100, 103, 105
“Trouble with Wilderness, The” (Cronon), 2
Upanishads (Berry), 75
Urban Alliance, 120
US Army Corps of Engineers, 114
Utica Shale, 179
Utopia (Kinder-Morgan Company pipeline), 172–73
Vaughan, William, 180
Virginia, foxhunting in, 119, 121
Walden (Thoreau), 176
Walker, Joseph, 102
“Walking” (Thoreau), 175
walking, 13–17. See also habitat
Wayne, “Mad” Anthony, 104, 168
Wedding Pines, 35–56, 37; barn of, 51–52; construction of, 39–42; evangelists’ visits to, 53–56; farm classification of, 36–37; furnishings and contents of, 44–51; history of area, 37–38; location of, 35–36, 38–39, 53; upkeep of, 43–44
Weirick (Wedding Pines builders), 41, 51, 56
Western Reserve, 35
Wheeling Island, 101
Whitehall Farmhouse, 176
White Water Lily (Maxwell’s daughter), 168
“Why I Hunt” (Bass), 123–24
“Wild, The” (Berry), 11
“Wildlife in American Culture” (Leopold), 123
Williams, Ted, 122
Wilson, Edmund, 132
Windham, Eulah (“Grandmother Fleming”), 44, 46
Windham, Oral, 46
Workingmen-Gardeners’ Association (France), 141
Wright, James, 166–67
Wyandots (Native Americans), 168
Xanadu (horse), 19, 23, 26–27, 31, 33, 81
Yeats, W. B., 75
Yellow Springs, 176
Zaleski State Forest, 8–11
Zane, Ebenezer, 101
Zanesville, 101