Bloom Magazine
Category: Features
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Autumn in Monroe County
PHOTOGRAPHY BY J. BRUCE BAUMANN Is there anything more beautiful in nature than autumn leaves? And is there anyplace more…
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The Most Amazing Creature on the Planet: Lil Bub (Video)
BY SOPHIE ABRAMS, TRANSCRIBED BY RACHEL OSMAN, PHOTOGRAPHY BY LYNAE SOWINSKI With more than 70,000 Facebook fans, 2.5 million YouTube…
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And the Winners Are…
BY JEREMY SHERE, PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVE RAYMER One day last February, Barry Lessow, executive director of United Way of Monroe…
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Held Hostage in Iran (Video)
BY JEREMY SHERE The Ben Affleck movie Argo tells the story of six Americans who were spirited out of Iran…
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A Hoosier Holiday Feast
BY LEE ANN SANDWEISS During the holidays, many dream of going over the river and through the woods to a…
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IU Jacobs School of Music: The Next Generation
BY ELISABETH ANDREWS Certain names are perennially associated with Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, such as pianists Menahem Pressler…
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A Home Where Art Lives
BY LEE ANN SANDWEISS You’ve probably driven by the sprawling yellow villa on Bloomington’s east side—the one with the life-size…
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A Sentimental Journey
BY LEE ANN SANDWEISS ‘As the plane approached the runway, I saw the royal palm trees—the national tree of Cuba—that…
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Lotus Festival (Video)
BY ELISABETH ANDREWS Ancient Sanskrit texts were not common in turn-of-the-century southern Indiana—certainly not within one-room log cabins housing families…
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