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The Joys of a Tree House

First Posted: 8/27/12 03:22 PM EDT Updated: 8/27/12 04:07 PM EDT
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BY MOYA ANDREWS Most people have only read about tree houses and their inhabitants, but Tom Haggerty actually built them when he was growing up in Scottsburg, Indiana. Tom and his young friends scrounged materials from abandoned houses and barns. Later, when he and his wife Cathy, both IU graduates, settled in Bloomington, they chose a house on West 14th Street primarily because it had two big oak trees in the front yard—and Tom saw the possibilities. “I just couldn’t imagine not having a tree house,” he says, “but it is important to find the right tree. Soft maples aren’t any good, and I think that maybe the right tree has to find you.” Over a decade ago, when the [...]

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Dennis & Jerry Clerkin: Bridge Champions

First Posted: 7/19/12 02:17 PM EDT Updated: 7/19/12 02:17 PM EDT
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BY JANET MANDELSTAM While other 7- and 8-year-olds were chasing fly balls or reading comic books, Dennis and Jerry Clerkin were playing bridge. “That was our recreation,” says Dennis. “We started playing in our family when we were very young.” By the time they got to college, the brothers were reading books about bridge and “taking it very seriously,” says Dennis, who is a year older than Jerry. The two began playing tournament bridge together over 35 years ago and have never looked back. Those years of experience paid off in July 2010 when the Clerkin brothers, both Bloomington residents, won the American Contract Bridge League’s Grand National Teams Championship in New Orleans, a tournament in which they played 320 [...]

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Andy Mallor: 
B-town’s Best-Dressed Lawyer

First Posted: 6/27/12 04:35 PM EDT Updated: 6/27/12 04:35 PM EDT
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BY ZAK SZYMANSKI It’s a hot summer evening and Bloomington attorney Andy Mallor is driving 170 miles to a hearing scheduled for the following day. But not to worry, he jokingly affirms from his cell phone, “I look good.” Consistently voted one of Indiana’s “Top 50 Super Lawyers” by Law&Politics magazine, Mallor is also Bloomington’s most high-profile haberdasher, selling custom-made suits and other fine clothing from his downtown store, Andrew Davis Menswear. It’s a dual career that fits so well, not even road trips or the end of the workday are excuses to dress down. “I do wear sweats at home,” Mallor offers. “Sometimes.” The New Jersey native moved to Bloomington 41 years ago as an IU freshman, stayed for [...]

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à propos: A Shop as Eclectic as Bloomington Itself

First Posted: 6/22/12 11:59 AM EDT Updated: 6/22/12 11:59 AM EDT
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BY RON EID Established over 30 years ago, à propos Gifts and Jewelry is not only a Bloomington institution but emblematic of the town itself. So when owner Anita Rozlapa says the store reflects her taste and personality, she actually describes much of what gives Bloomington its character. Rozlapa compares her store to “a gallery, but without being intimidating, stiff, or formal. The point is for people to feel comfortable.” As the only employee, she chooses every item in the store herself. From Kenyan fair-trade stuffed animals to Frank Lloyd Wright-design ties, Rozlapa says, “I buy things that strike my fancy, that are beautiful, are well-constructed, and have a good design.” Her tastes are eclectic—“I love Brahms, but I’m also [...]

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Alvin Rosenfeld: Anti-Semitism Scholar

First Posted: 5/16/12 01:04 PM EDT Updated: 5/16/12 01:04 PM EDT
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BY DEB KENT It has been called “the longest hatred,” and it has long held the attention of Alvin Rosenfeld, founder and director of the new Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism at Indiana University. Rosenfeld says his reason for creating the institute, one of only two of its kind at American universities, “is as simple—and complex—as trying to discover what keeps alive this deep hatred and seeing what might be done to ameliorate it.” A professor of Jewish studies and English, Rosenfeld knows this terrain well. He is the author of Thinking About the Holocaust: After Half a Century and Imagining Hitler (both by IU Press), among other books and scores of articles on the Nazi era. But [...]

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