Bloom Archives
Author: Bloom Intern
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Two Sticks Bakery: Owners Are Living the Dream
While working together at Feast Bakery Cafe and Feast Market & Cellar, Kassie Jensen and Amanda Armstrong began to think they just might have…
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New Book by B-town Author Celebrates Arts & Crafts Furniture
Nancy Hiller is out to persuade readers that Arts and Crafts furniture offers more than the heavy, massive, unadorned pieces most Americans associate with…
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Tristra Newyear Yeager: Russophile & Writer
Tristra Newyear Yeager admits these are peculiar times for an admirer of Russian culture. But while American and Russian politicians carry on their geopolitical…
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Munich Dunkel: Don’t Fear the Dark
Each autumn, everyone who loves beer seems to turn German, celebrating Oktoberfest and drinking its namesake beer. While that style is certainly laudable, another…
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‘Unknown, Untold, and Unbelievable Stories of IU Sports’
When it comes to sports stories, many are like fish tales—exaggerated beyond recognizable truth. But writers John C. Decker, Pete DiPrimio, and Doug Wilson…
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Local Community Has Support of Two Health Foundations
Those looking to support health programs in Bloomington and Monroe County now have more ways to give, but it can get a little confusing.
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David Polly: Paleontologist
As a professor of geological sciences at Indiana University, David Polly uses the past to divine our climatic future. Polly studies how vertebrate animals…
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New Exhibit at Waldron — How Mexican Workers Aided the U.S. in WWII
As American men were heading to the frontlines during World War II, Mexican braceros, or “manual laborers,” were heading to the United States to…
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The Serviceable Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemums were aptly described by the title character in the 1969 film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as “serviceable flowers.”