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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 40.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOriginally from Indianapolis, Ian Woollen has lived in Bloomington for nearly 40 years. He, and his wife Sue Sweeny, are the proverbial graduate students who never left town. Ian is also a psychotherapist. In both his writing and therapy practice Ian says he is looking for the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:42 — 44.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | More(Original air date: July 30, 2019) Forget the haters – they have not read deliberately nor with imagination, only as partisans. You could do much worse than spend many hours reading and studying just two of Thoreau’s great essays, “Civil Disobedience” and “A Plea for Captain John …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:33 — 28.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday is the last day to register to vote in Indiana, ahead of November’s midterm elections; City of Bloomington Communications Director Yael Ksander made the announcement the city will change Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day; Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb, business leaders, and local officials met with …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:59 — 6.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode of the Bicentennial Journal, Donn Hall tells about the Underground Railroad in Monroe County. Local families who helped – and handed over – runaway slaves, in this week’s edition of The Bicentennial Journal—looking back on 200 years of history in South Central Indiana. Support …