Photography Now & Then #88
I’ve gotten out of the habit of regular exercise too many times in the past, which, unfortunately, has had some adverse health consequences, mostly related to high blood pressure. Doctors prescribed medication and weight loss, which should be able to reverse, or at least mitigate, the problems. From past experience, I know when I start breaking a good sweat while exercising that I am finally making good progress in my efforts to get back in shape.
Now: Breaking a sweat a sweat at the gym, March 29, 2018 (Apple iPhone 6s)
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The Bad River is a 74.3 mile long river in northern Wisconsin that discharges into Lake Superior.
Then: Bad River Foot Bridge, Doughboys Trail, Copper Falls State Park, Wisconsin, September 17, 2013 (Pentax K-r)
Exploring upper Wisconsin a bit in the fall of 2013, we camped at Copper Falls State Park. The very scenic Doughboys trail, built by WWI veterans in a government work program, is a 1.7 mile trail that visits Copper Falls on the Bad River and Brownstone Falls, on the Tyler Forks River just above where it joins the Bad.
Curious as to the name of the Bad River, I found it rather difficult to find anything online. Most of the search results on “bad river wisconsin” were related to the Bad River Band Of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians or their 125,000+ acre reservation in Northern Wisconsin on the south shore of Lake Superior.
Geology of Wisconsin: Paleontology, by R.P. Whitfield, published in 1880, attributes the name to the large amount of suspended matter in the water of the lower portion of the river, which flows for many miles through red clay and marshes. This differs from most other streams flowing into Lake Superior, which are clear, flowing to the lake over rock bottoms.
Michael W. Nagle, in Justus S. Stearns: Michigan Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 1845-1933, published in 2015, writes that whites became confused and labeled it “Bad River” instead of the more correct “Swamp River” translation of the Indian name, Mashki Sibling. Another explanation Nagle offers is that whites who came to log timber attributed the name to the danger the river posed during spring floods when the Bad River could be treacherous taking many white lives.
Photography Now & Then Notes:
- Series Photos
- The Now photo is one that is almost always taken the day of the blog post. In some instances, posts may be backdated if internet access is not available on the day of the photo or other reasons prevent posting Photography Now and Then.
- The Then photo is usually a randomly selected older photograph from a batch of photos specifically “curated” for Photography Now and Then.
- Each photo in this series is an “original work” – a copyright term – of Michael Goad.
- Reference links were accessed on the date the blog post was published, unless otherwise stated.
- The title convention for Photography Now & Then blog posts evolved early on from one word related to each photo separated by “&” to usually being the first word in the caption description for each photo.
