Colorful Characters — Harmon Ligon

Here’s a story from the summer of 1943.

It was apparantly quite popular as filler since it was picked up by quite a few newspapers at the time.

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Colorful Characters — Abram Lahdenpera

Here’s another in my series of Colorful Characters, that is, various barefooters in history (or currently).

Today’s barefooter is from the early 1900s.

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The Johnny Appleseed Museum

Last week I visited the Johnny Appleseed Museum.

It’s definitely worth the trip.

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Magazine Profile — Alan Bruens

Back in June, fellow barefooter Alan Bruens was profiled in the Advertiser-News (North). He’s now moved on to bigger and better things: New Jersey Monthly Magazine.

In addition to being a nice article, this one has a killer caricature of Alan

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Colorful Characters — Barefoot Harry Rice

Today’s colorful character comes to us from Australia, which is (or at least was) well-known for its barefooted outback characters.

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Colorful Characters — Anthony Perkins

There was a time when Actor Anthony (“Psycho”) Perkins went around barefoot. Unfortunately, it didn’t last.

Peer pressure.

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Colorful Characters — Don “Barefoot” Post

After I wrote about “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, a few people let me know about Don “Barefoot” Post, billed as “the world’s only all-round barefoot athlete.”

So, here’s a bit of information about him.

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Colorful Characters — “Shoeless” Joe Jackson

“Shoeless” Joe Jackson was a baseball player from the early 1900s who was implicated in the “Black Sox” scandal of the 1919 World Series.

Here’s how Wikipedia says he got his nickname.

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Colorful Characters — “Barefoot Charlie” Schroeder

More and more I find that there has always been a subset of people who prefer to stay barefooted, even while the world shoes up around them.

Here’s another one.

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Colorful Characters — “Barefoot Charlie” Haase

Our colorful character for today is Charlie Haase, from Land O’Lakes, Wisconsin.

He operated a restaurant there, “Barefoot Charlie’s”, for many, many years.

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Newspaper Profile — Alan Bruens

The Advertiser-News (North) in northern New Jersey recently had a very nice story about fellow barefooter Alan Bruens.

We got a glimpse of Alan from when he visited the Grand Canyon a few months ago and had an issues with their shuttle buses.

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Colorful Characters — Mark Corske

Last time I promised a look at the person I visited in Taos. He’s a colorful character in his own right.

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Colorful Characters — The Harrison Boys

You know how some people just keep having more boys while trying to have a little girl?

Well, meet the Harrisons from Johnson City, Tennessee, when they took a visit to New York City. Thirteen barefoot boys.

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Colorful Characters — Lawrence Washington

This time our colorful character is Lawrence Washington, a blood-relative of George Washington.

The story comes to us from the February 23, 1908 issue of the New York Times.

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Colorful Characters: Patrick Doherty

Here’s another in my Colorful Characters series. And of course, by “colorful character”, I mean “barefoot”.

This one comes to us via a Chicago newspaper called “The Day Book”, in a story from February, 1914.

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