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Monroe County Commission Plans Limestone Quarry Heritage Park
Many of Monroe County’s limestone quarries lie hidden in plain sight. A grove of trees along a highway or country road may look like another forested acreage, perhaps sheltering a farmland of soybeans or hay. But behind the trees are acres of rocks piled high and deep. Visitors to a working quarry may be somewhat shocked at the scar the quarries leave upon the landscape.
Rise to Run Trains Young Women to Enter Politics
“Frankly, women haven’t really been given the chance,” says Shay Upadhyay, a senior at Bloomington High School South, about women in politics. Shay Upadhyay, a senior at Bloomington High School South and a member of the Advisory Council for Rise to Run.
In Memoir ‘Crazy Is Relative,’ Past Informs the Present
“My relationship with my mother-in-law, Shirley, was like one of those woven cylinder finger traps I played with in my youth, the kind that is impossible to escape if you’re pulling in different directions,” writes Melissa Keller, in the prologue of her debut memoir, Crazy Is Relative (TMI Publishing, 2017). This heartfelt memoir tells the story of the relationship between a daughter- and mother-in-law, and how past informs the present.
9 Hoosier Haunts to Rattle Your Halloween
It’s that time of year again! Here are nine Indiana haunts that’ll keep you up at night. Just a reminder, though, it’s illegal to go to some of these places yourself — and we don’t advocate trespassing — but the stories themselves are quite thrilling! Big Tunnel (Tunnelton) Big Tunnel in Tunnelton, Indiana. | Photo by Carla Roberts “Oh, yeah, we parked the car. Turned off the lights. … When we turned them back on, there were people moving across the tracks in the distance,” said the store employee.
Indiana Democrats and the Politics of White Nativism
Since the election of Donald Trump to the White House in 2016, much of the journalistic and academic spotlight has been focused on how Trump’s ascension to the presidency is reshaping the national Republican Party and the degree to which the nationalist and nativist forces unleashed during the 2016 campaign will reshape American politics in coming electoral cycles. As president, Trump has become the de-facto leader of the GOP.
B-town Summer Kicks Off with Busy Weekend June 1-3
LOCAL ART FAR Grand Opening and Exhibits Friday, June 1, 5 to 8 p.m. FAR Center for Contemporary Arts, 505 W. 4th St. The long-anticipated grand opening of FAR Center for Contemporary Arts features photography by Jeffrey A. Wolin in the exhibit “Stone County: Then & Now.” A limestone sculpture by local artist Amy Brier will accompany Wolin’s photo series of people who worked with limestone, as well as famous buildings and sculptural art created from it.
'Stone Country,' the Land That Carved a People
This photo by Jeffrey Wolin shows the last day of quarry season at the Independent Limestone quarry in 1983. This is one of many photographs Wolin took for his book, with text by Scott Russell Sanders, on the Indiana limestone industry, “Stone Country.” | Photo by Jeffrey Wolin Man — or woman, as the case may be — against rock. It’s the proving ground for the human stories we hope will last. It’s me bounding up a face of red sandstone in Moab after the man I loved.
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