Bloom Archives
Adam Kent-Isaac
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WTIU Celebrates 50 Years of Serving and Entertaining Viewers in Southern Indiana
When it began broadcasting on March 3, 1969, Indiana University television station WTIU had three employees, began its day with the national anthem, and…
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Bloom’s Greatest Hits: James Alexander Thom—Historical Novelist
James Alexander Thom, acclaimed historical novelist, has the wispy white hair and bushy beard of a biblical prophet. In fact, he jokes that he…
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Bloom’s Greatest Hits: The Bugs of Bloomington
Spring is upon us, and with it comes new life in the form of fragrant flowers and greenery, and the bugs that depend on…
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Bloom’s Greatest Hits–Marc Haggerty: Activist
(From Bloom’s October/November 2012 issue) Marc Haggerty, 64, elder statesman of Bloomington’s counterculture, grew up hunting, fishing, and playing guitar in the countryside south…
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100 Reasons to Love Bloomington (August Cover Story)
BY CARMEN SIERING WITH BARB BERGGOETZ & ELISABETH ANDREWS, ILLUSTRATIONS BY MIKE CAGLE It’s a wonderful town. It was no easy task honing down the…
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Trojan Horse Introduces Smartphone Loyalty App
BY ADAM KENT-ISAAC If it’s not the rotating gyros meat in the front window at the corner of East Kirkwood and South Walnut, perhaps…
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The Green Nursery Where Diapers Rule
BY ADAM KENT-ISAAC Calling a business “our baby” is usually just a figure of speech. But in the case of The Green Nursery, operated…
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B-town Author Writes a ‘Bomb’ of a Book
BY BILL WEAVER Bloomington author Ian Woollen tells a tale that encapsulates the Cold War era within the lives of three generations of a…
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The Art of Framing Everything from Memorabilia to Bicycles
BY ADAM KENT-ISAAC To some, the frame around a piece of art or memorabilia is primarily an apparatus to display and protect whatever is…