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For State History Buffs: A Magazine to Savor

First Posted: 7/26/12 02:29 PM EDT Updated: 7/26/12 02:29 PM EDT
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History Magazine

BY NANCY HILLER Have you ever wished for a way to peer into Hoosier history and glimpse what daily life was like a century ago? While it’s not quite a time machine, the Indiana Magazine of History offers a wealth of information as intriguing as it is edifying. The contents are available online, free of charge. Think of terms relating to everyday life—say, “college” and “expenses”—and type them into a keyword search on the site. Miraculously, up pops “Cash account of a university student, 1902-1903.” Ink and letter-tablet…20 cents; Railroad fares to and from Bloomington…$6.40; Beans and pencils…35 cents. Quite a contrast with the iPads, cars, and dining options available to IU undergraduates today. For this quirky, period detail, you [...]

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Dr. Eric Trueblood: Air Force Physician

First Posted: 7/25/12 02:26 PM EDT Updated: 7/25/12 02:26 PM EDT
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Eric Trueblood

BY ELISABETH ANDREWS Picture this: You’re in the desert outside Kandahar, Afghanistan, with nothing around you but a flimsy tent and a giant fuel bladder that serves as a red-hot target for enemy rockets. Suddenly a Humvee rolls up in a cloud of dust, depositing a soldier who has just lost half his pelvis in a grenade blast. It’s your job to keep him alive on a 17-hour journey to the hospital—and you need to do it in the back of a cargo airplane, in pitch-black darkness, through a twirling combat takeoff that requires you to strap yourself to the canvas stretcher as you scramble to set up a blood transfusion using only the scant supplies in your backpack. For [...]

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Textillery Weavers Now Selling Furniture at Bargain Prices

First Posted: 3/30/12 02:25 PM EDT Updated: 3/30/12 02:25 PM EDT
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Textillery Weavers

BY PAMELA KEECH Some of that furniture you may have been admiring in shelter magazines is now available in Bloomington, at or below wholesale prices. Textillery Weavers, the maker of luxury throws in Bloomington, is now selling leftovers from the big furniture markets like High Point in North Carolina, factory samples, and various short runs from manufacturers like Arhaus, Swaim, Bernhardt, Somerset Bay, and Modern History. There are no frills at the Textillery showroom, just sofas, tables, chairs, cabinets, beds, lamps, and desks piled cheek by jowl into a couple of huge rooms in the Textillery factory basement located off State Road 45/46 Bypass behind the Quality Inn. Much of the furniture is large scale. There are leather sofas and [...]

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B-town’s WFIU Creating Programs Heard Nationwide

First Posted: 2/17/12 03:39 PM EDT Updated: 3/1/12 07:38 PM EDT
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Annie Corrigan and John Bailey. Photo by Lynae Sowinski

BY CARMEN SIERING Public radio fans know Bloomington’s WFIU offers classical music and jazz, as well as informational and news programming. What they may not realize is that many of the local programs they enjoy are broadcast nationwide. “We’ve been active in syndication for twenty years, and dabbling in it for close to thirty,” says John Bailey, director of marketing and communication for WFIU. One of the station’s longest-running syndicated programs is Harmonia, which features music from the Renaissance and early Baroque periods. Launched in 1991, the show began national syndication in 1995, with more than 80 stations signing on in the first week. Night Lights, a weekly one-hour jazz program that debuted in 2004, is another locally produced music program [...]

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Rudy Pozzatti: Artist

First Posted: 2/14/12 05:03 AM EDT Updated: 3/1/12 07:42 PM EDT
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Rudy Pozzatti. Photo by Steve Raymer

BY NANCY HILLER Considering his international reputation as a fine-art printmaker and cofounder of Bloomington’s Echo Press, it may be a surprise to learn that Rudy Pozzatti might have become a doctor had it not been for a chance encounter when he was 17. Pozzatti, 86, grew up in Telluride, Colorado, an area then known not for ski resorts but the gritty culture of gold and silver mines. His mother had come to Colorado by herself from her Italian hometown of Trento at the tender age of 13, invited by her uncle to help run a boarding house for miners. Several years later she married a miner who was also, coincidentally, from Trento. As a child, Pozzatti developed a keen [...]

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