Local actress, writer, and historian Gladys DeVane dressed as Rosa Parks to commemorate the activist’s 105th birthday with Bloomington Transit on Saturday, February 3. DeVane was participating in Bloomington Transit’s Free Ride Day event, which was part of the city’s Black History Month and Bicentennial celebrations.
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Stormy Walker found her forever home at 18 years old. Watch her speech here.
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(From Bloom’s October/November 2012 issue) Marc Haggerty, 64, elder statesman of Bloomington’s counterculture, grew up hunting, fishing, and playing guitar in the countryside south of Indianapolis. His father served as Democratic Party chairman for Marion County, and Haggerty recalls visiting the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City with his brothers. “We ran up and down the boardwalk, in and out of the convention, looking for girls—there was no security, nothing.”
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From February/March 2015: When Mary Alice Dunlap was appointed by the Bloomington City Council as the city’s first woman mayor in 1962 after the resignation of fellow Democrat Tom Lemon, it provided a cause for celebration. The former city clerk/treasurer was just the second woman ever to serve as the mayor of an Indiana city, but the breakthrough was short-lived.
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In celebration of Bloomington’s annual Week of Chocolate, Down Syndrome Family Connection will host a fashion show in Shreve Hall at Ivy Tech Community College–Bloomington on Friday, February 16, from 6–7:30 p.m.
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