Bloom Archives
Category: Community
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Feature Story: ‘Pigeon Hill: Then and Now’ — Photography (and Words) by Jeffrey Wolin
BY MIKE LEONARD Jeffrey Wolin’s photo essay “Pigeon Hill: Then and Now” is prominent in a concurrent three-venue exhibit in Bloomington at the Indiana…
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Bloomington Minister Joined Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma
‘I knew Martin Luther King Jr. before he was Martin Luther King Jr.’ BY MIKE LEONARD The Rev. Joe Emerson’s face reddens and his…
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Cover Story: Women Who Helped Shape Our Town
BY MIKE LEONARD, PHOTOGRAPHY BY SHANNON ZAHNLE When Mary Alice Dunlap was appointed by the Bloomington City Council as the city’s first woman mayor…
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Feature Story: ‘The American Spectator’ Born and Bred in Bloomington
In this bastion of liberalism, a groundbreaking, impertinent campus magazine attracted the best conservative thinkers and writers of the day and spread its influence…
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Bloom’s 9th Annual Holiday Party
December 10, 2014 The Tudor Room at the Indiana Memorial Union was the site of Bloom‘s 9th annual holiday party. Two hundred and fifty civic…
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Cleaning up After a Murder of Crows (Photo Gallery)
Every day at sunset during the winter, thousands of crows fill the sky over Bloomington. They descend, primary over the downtown, finding branches, wires,…
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IU Begins Moving Houses in University Courts (Video)
Workers began the arduous and exacting task of relocating five houses in Bloomington’s University Courts Historic District recently by uprooting a home built in…
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Taliaferro Reunion with Old Friend to be Featured on Friday’s ‘Today’ Show
BY MIKE LEONARD It started with a handshake — a handshake that neither man could possibly know would turn into a friendship of more…
