Donaldson's Woods

Frank Renfrow copyright 1995. A song about the Scots Naturalist, Adventurer and Mill Owner George Donaldson who preserved the old growth forest at Donaldson's Woods at Spring Mill and put up a monument to Alexander Wilson, father of North American Ornithology at what is now Spring Mill State Park in Indiana. Born in Renfrewshire he was condemned to be executed but escaped to America. he became rather prosperous and his eccentricities the talk of much gossip in nearby Mitchell, Indiana.