Mike's been writing recently about how he is pleased (albeit sometimes for odd reasons) to come from Bloomington IN, where he and I met and started our long friendship.
It all but goes without saying that I feel the same way. You can hardly wander through Anne's or my logs without seeing the occasional reference to that fine southcentral Indiana city.
There's good resources available for Bloomington and the area for those of us who are, in a sense, Bton expats. The local newspaper, the Herald-Times has a decent, though sometimes frustrating, web presence. The student newspaper of Indiana University at Bloomington has an online Indiana Digital Student (which even includes an avantgo version for handheld users, quite handy!).
For what I think is a nice taste of the local culture, the work of Sarah Hoskinson Frommer (disclaimer, parent of a friend from -way- back) captures a nice rendition of what it is to grow up in a smallish college town, couched in the genre of mystery writing.
Today in reading the HoosierTimes, I came across reference to a new anthology of Bloomington Poets, which is another reason I love Bloomington. Not that I'm personally a big consumer of poetry, but that as a community Bloomington can consistently pull together such small projects for itself. It's a pity about some of the glitches in the web design (and I think the designer is one of those people you know in High School but don't remember clearly). The navigation shifts unexpectedly, and you have to look at the back cover GIF in order to find out who is represented on the anthology). But the book is something I look for next time I'm in town visiting.
Posted by esinclai at November 10, 2002 11:40 AM |