The average Hoosier could not name more than 10. Brown County is not the Midwest at all, as we usually think of the Midwest. There is more variety of personality here, and more old-fashioned vitality of character. The people of Brown County are hill people, not prairie people. All northern and central Indiana is as flat as a board.
Neat farms checker it, and the roads make a chart, lines a mile apart, straight as a ruler.
That, too, is what eventually attracted the sightseers. Brown County is not the same as it was when the artists discovered it. The artists no longer consider it picturesque. They would go away, except they say it's still better than anywhere else. The native of Brown County is innately courteous.