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Depression-era art show one for the ages
By Bill Kemp. Published on October 19, 2009.
In the spring of 1939, area residents flocked to the Bloomington Consistory to gaze upon paintings by the likes of Rembrandt, Renoir an...
Colonial Theatre once Colfax mainstay
By Bill Kemp. Published on April 29, 2018.
As with most small town movie houses, the Colonial Theatre in Colfax offered area residents more than a parade of Hollywood legends on ...
Million-dollar cartoonist got start in Bloomington
By Bill Kemp. Published on August 12, 2018.
Although nearly forgotten today, Bloomington-born artist Sid Smith was a towering figure in American popular culture. From 1917 until h...