Perry E. Piper's recollections of his childhood on Muddy Creek -- "which lies astraddle of the Indian Boundary Line that old Chief Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison laid out back in 1803" - have appeared in newspapers in Illinois and Indiana for the past 12 years. He has collected the columns in two volumes of memoirs, available from him at 71 Concordia Drive, Paris, III, 61944. FC
It could be hard to appreciate the beauty and complexity couched in that simple act of "harnessing horses.





