Bloom Archives
Category: Features
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Cover Story: Off to See the World (Photo Gallery)
Mason Cassady and Rachel Irvine wanted to learn about everyday life in other cultures. Bicycles, they felt, would be the best way to go. BY BARB BERGGOETZ…
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Feature Story: Guarding FDR — Secret Service Agent Val Nolan Jr. (Video)
EDITED BY ELISABETH ANDREWS Val Nolan Jr. was known to the Bloomington community as an exceptional scholar of uncommon breadth. While serving as a professor in Indiana…
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Feature Story: Homes Where Artists Live & Work (Photo Gallery)
BY NANCY HILLER, PHOTOGRAPHY BY KENDALL REEVES Art may indeed be its own reward, but still it’s nice to have a comfortable nest to…
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Cover Story: College Sports in Crisis
BY MIKE LEONARD Renowned sportswriter and commentator Frank Deford is unsparing in his criticism of intercollegiate athletics. “It is an inequitable system. It is…
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Feature Story: Eva Kor of Terre Haute — A Holocaust Survivor Who Believes in Forgiveness (Video)
BY NANCY HILLER On a Saturday this past June, Bloom writer Nancy Hiller and photographer Darryl Smith went to Terre Haute, Indiana, to meet…
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Feature Story: ‘An Artist’s Images on the B-Line Trail’ — Poem and Photography by Roger Pfingston (Video)
Roger Pfingston is a retired English and journalism teacher who taught at Bloomington High School North for 25 years. He has been quietly publishing…
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Feature Story: 8 Months in Lyon (Photo Gallery)
DIARY, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND ART BY ETHAN SANDWEISS ‘They say that when good Americans die, they go to Paris.’ So wrote Oscar Wilde in The…
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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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Cover Story: Buddies: Filmmakers Angelo Pizzo and David Anspaugh
BY MIKE LEONARD, PHOTOGRAPHY BY SHANNON ZAHNLE David Anspaugh thinks for a moment and then recalls the first time he encountered Angelo Pizzo nearly…