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Tracks Through Time: The Trains of 1970s Bloomington
Richard Koenig
In the 1970s, a budding photographer in Bloomington captured images of trains as they passed through the area. Today, Richard Koenig, a professor of art at Kalamazoo College, shares his photographs with Limestone Post, showing how a once essential industry was threaded into the very fabric of town life. Click here to read the full story and to see Koenig's photos.
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Some of our favorite restaurants might never have happened without world-renowned chef, author, and food activist Alice Waters, who will visit Bloomington in April to inaugurate the IU Food Project. | Photo courtesy of Pexels, surajith s

Food Icon Alice Waters to Help Launch IU Food Project
Benjamin Beane
Some of our favorite restaurants might never have happened without world-renowned chef, author, and food activist Alice Waters. Writer Benjamin Beane spoke to Waters about her visit to Bloomington on April 6-8 to officially launch the IU Food Project, which was created to address the challenges of providing sustainable food for a changing planet. Click here to read the full story.
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A Reimagining Opera for Kids (ROK) performance of "Rufus and Rita," featuring (l-r) Dexter Griffin as the Sloth, Alejandra Martinez as Rita, and Marquese Carter as Rufus. | Courtesy photo

Behind the Curtain: Making Opera ‘Not a Dirty Word’
Jennifer Pacenza
An opera coach at IU has been working to lessen the damage of dismantling arts education in public schools. Kim Carballo’s Reimagining Opera for Kids performs for school children, introducing them to opera and helping to “make opera not a dirty word.” LP columnist Jennifer Pacenza takes a look at ROK in Behind the Curtain. Click here to read the full story.
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West Coast "Super Smash Bros." competitors, Joey “Lucky” Aldama and Binyan “Darkatma” Lin, at Smash at IUB's Full Bloom 2 tournament. | Photo courtesy of Smash at IUB

IU’s ‘Smash’ Tourney Largest in Indiana History
Dason Anderson
The popularity of video games has grown into full form, for both players and spectators. The Smash at IUB event on March 25, for instance, will draw nationally ranked players in one of the Midwest’s largest-attended Super Smash Bros. tournaments. Writer Dason Anderson looks into the smashing success of this and other eSports. Click here to read the full story.
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Big Mike’s B-town: Nancy Hiller, Cabinetmaker and Author
Michael G. Glab
Nancy Hiller went from “cobbling together” scraps of wood in her dining room in England to owning a successful woodworking studio in Bloomington. She has also written several noteworthy books about her craft, including her latest, Making Things Work: Tales from A Cabinetmaker’s Life. Read more about Hiller and her many talents in Michael G. Glab’s column, Big Mike’s B-town.
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Former Bloomington Mayor Tomi Allison (far right) and Indiana University Professor Emeritus Jim Allison (second from right) say our democracy is in urgent need of reform to give voices back to the majority of Americans. At Inaugurate the Revolution in January, the Allisons discussed three key efforts — instate the popular vote, eliminate gerrymandering, and create a rank-choice voting system. | Limestone Post

Democratic Reforms Needed for Your Vote to Count
Tomi and Jim Allison
Former Bloomington Mayor Tomi Allison and Indiana University Professor Emeritus Jim Allison say our democracy is in urgent need of reform to give voices back to the majority of Americans. They suggest starting with three key efforts: instating the popular vote, eliminating gerrymandering, and creating a rank-choice voting system. Click here to read the full story.
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Writer Laura Martinez, a citizen of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas, writes, "Life cannot exist without water. We can survive without oil by investing in renewable energy, but we cannot sustain life without clean water." This message has led many Native and non-Native people from all over the country to stream into Standing Rock by the thousands. | Limestone Post File Photo, Indiana University First Nations Educational and Cultural Center's (FNECC) 5th Annual Traditional Powwow at Alumni Hall in Indiana Memorial Union, 2015

Standing Rock Protestors: ‘Water Is Life’
Laura Martinez
Protestors at Standing Rock in North Dakota have a simple message: “Mni Wiconi” — Water is life. Or as Laura Martinez, a Bloomington resident and citizen of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas, writes, "Life cannot exist without water. We can survive without oil by investing in renewable energy, but we cannot sustain life without clean water." Click here to read the full story.
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In the so-called “post-truth” era, says Elijah Pouges, pictured here giving a lecture on media literacy at Inaugurate the Revolution in January, “the reasons to be media literate have never been so dire.” | Limestone Post

Becoming Media Literate in a ‘Post-truth’ Era
Elijah Pouges
In the so-called “post-truth” era, says Elijah Pouges, a journalism student at Indiana University, “the reasons to be media literate have never been so dire.” Learning when news sources frames stories for their own agenda can help people become better consumers of the media. Click here to read the full story.
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Genograms are like family trees illuminated with the patterns of good and bad behavior of your ancestors. | Photo courtesy of Pexels, Kaboompics

Know Thyself Part 3: Behavioral Patterns in Your Family Tree
Samantha Eibling
Genograms are like family trees illuminated with the patterns of good and bad behavior of your ancestors. In this third and final article of Know Thyself, writer Samantha Eibling explores genograms and how the behavioral patterns in your family history may inform your behavior. But, she writes, there are ways to override the behaviors that no longer serve you. Click here to read the full story.
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Fastpacking mixes "trail running for fitness and backpacking for pleasure," says adventure-travel writer Michael Waterford. | Courtesy photo

Outfitted: Fastpacking, the ‘Sexy Hybrid’ of Trail Running and Backpacking
Michael Waterford
Adventure-travel writer Michael Waterford says the best way to see more fauna and foliage on long-distance trails is by fastpacking — the “sexy hybrid” of trail running and backpacking. Calling fastpacking “the stripped-down, all-out pursuit of mileage in the forest,” he offers these tips for your first fastpacking trip. Click here to read the full story.
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Writer TJ Jaeger looks at the difficult circumstances people face — and choices they have to make — when they find themselves living on the streets of Bloomington. | Photo by TJ Jaeger

Paths of Homelessness, Part 1: Your First Day
TJ Jaeger
It's your first day of experiencing homelessness. What do you do? What are your options? Where will you sleep tonight? In the first of this two-part series, writer TJ Jaeger looks at the difficult circumstances people face — and choices they have to make — when they find themselves living on the streets of Bloomington. Click here to read the full story.
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(clockwise from top left) Ruthie Cohen's beef stew, carrot salad with dried cherries, and macaroni and cheese. | Photo by Ruthie Cohen

Stirring the Pot: Guiltless and Often Tastier Shortcuts
Ruthie Cohen
Sometimes, taking a shortcut will reveal something new and wonderful; sometimes it just gets the job done faster. In the kitchen, as Ruthie Cohen has discovered several times, something as simple as a jar of salsa could be your eureka moment. Click here to read the full story.
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