Like a herd of shaggy humped prehistoric creatures, the heavily wooded hills of Brown County spread across the landscape for miles, a feast for the eyes and the heart, it's easy to fall in love with this place. A lot of people have. And some of them have stayed. Professionals, mostly, from Indianapolis, Columbus and Bloomington. People who can afford to build or buy the lovely log houses in or near Nashville commute to their jobs, but there's not enough of them to make much of a crowd.
Brown County is still sparsely populated.
There's no real industry here, and the land rolls too much to support large farms. Tourism is the largest single source of income for many of the county's residents who are painters, potters, silversmiths, antique dealers and restaurant and hotel employees. People live here because they love it, not because they expect to get rich off what amounts to seasonal work. Summer and fall are they busy times, but that doesn't mean that the pace escalates too much. Brown County isn't the fast track, and the folks here like it that way.