Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1914 — BIRD MAN VISITS RENSSELAER AGAIN [ARTICLE]

BIRD MAN VISITS RENSSELAER AGAIN

Col. Isaac W. Brown, of Rochester, Who Communes With Nature, Talks at School.

Col. Isaac W. Brown, a bird man who doesn’t fly, but who is a friend of the songsters and who has studied their habits and lived with them until he knows their innermost lives, arrived in Rensselaer Thursday evening and today, Friday, talked at the public schools tor over two hours. He is a bit eccentric, some would say, but he simply has unique ways of impressing on his pupils the value of the birds that spend their summers with us. Colonel Brown was here about four years ago and at that time not only talked to the school children but also to an interested crowd of -older people at the court yard, and he led them on a stroll about the city tp observe some things that had eseaiped the notice of people living very near them. Colonel Brown is an admirer of toads and other dumb animals as well as birds and instructs those who hear him in the important part they play in the world. He supports himself while traveling about by taking up collections among the school children.