Maurice McClue

This past Autumn a wonderful new book has been published by the McClue Nature Reserve Board of Directors.

The book is a historical collection of the journal of Maurice McClue. Marice was born May 5, 1878 and began this journal 40 years later. He continued this journal until his death in 1957.

The book is a treasure trove of nature, stories and history from Steuben County.

His notes were transcribed in a lovingly and patient manner by Terri Gorney.

Here is a snapshot from the journal:

11 January 1925

A most extremely cold and disagreeable day with a raw east wind and with a foot of snow overlaying a crust of ice. The past three weeks has been as bad a time for birds as I have ever know. For two weeks every thing including every week and every seed was covered with a thick layer of ice. Yet today I saw where quail had made tracks in a thicket last night and also in a corn field where they had gone to the shocks.


The diary is full of life and color and is available to the general public. For those of us in Steuben County, see Fred Wooley at the Nature Center at Pokagon. The book sells for $25 and is on my new wish list!

For those of you wishing to visit McClue's Woods, it is located on 400 North, just east of Wing Haven Nature Preserve .

And that is the Voice of Angola, 1925.