Bloom Archives
Category: Our Town
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Ken Nunn: Attorney
BY ELISABETH ANDREWS “I’m still a poor kid living on the wrong side of the tracks,” says Ken Nunn, 72. It’s a difficult image…
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Charles Beeker: Underwater Explorer
BY JEREMY SHERE When Charles Beeker isn’t holed up in his subterranean, nautically themed lab in the basement of the IU Health, Physical Education…
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Leo Cook: Jack of All Trades
BY ELISABETH ANDREWS Things Leo Cook can do: mix an award-winning cocktail, play the electric washboard, make 50 varieties of Rice Krispies treats, and…
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Marc Haggerty: Activist
BY ADAM KENT-ISAAC Marc Haggerty, 64, elder statesman of Bloomington’s counterculture, grew up hunting, fishing, and playing guitar in the countryside south of Indianapolis.…
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Lauren Robel: IU Bloomington Provost
BY ELISABETH ANDREWS “I’d love to set up a time-lapse camera here,” says Lauren Robel, looking out her office window at the Sample Gates,…
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Arjia Rinpoche: High Lama
BY LEE ANN SANDWEISS “His Holiness has specifically named you as the person he wants to take over the management of Indiana’s Tibetan Cultural…
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Keith Kline: Artist (Photo Gallery)
BY JEREMY SHERE Among Bloomington’s many talented artists, painter Keith Kline is one of the most successful, but also one of the most discreet.…
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Honey Michelle Gregory: Attorney
BY LEE ANN SANDWEISS Honey Michelle Gregory turns the stereotype of the blonde bimbo on its peroxided head. In the early- to mid-1990s, B-movie…
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The Clock Man Of Monroe County
BY BRIAN HARTZ The minivan in the driveway of Dan Toth’s 30-acre woodland estate in eastern Monroe County contains the first clue: the license…