Elizabeth Bridgwaters Archives

Bloom’s Greatest Hits: Women Who Helped Shape Our Town

From February/March 2015: When Mary Alice Dunlap was appointed by the Bloomington City Council as the city’s first woman mayor in 1962 after the…

January 25, 2018

BY DOUGLAS WISSING, ART BY SHANNON ZAHNLE Read the full story here! (Additional photos can be found at the bottom of this page.) A different…

February 12, 2016

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…

February 10, 2015