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  • We hear from a style icon about vintage style vs vintage values. The director of our local library reflects on libraries as public trusts. And the head of curatorial services at IU’s special collections library describes the similarities between a library and a seance.
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Kevin Weaver and Matt Rice, organizers of the Bloomington International Film Festival (BIFF), talk to Nice Work Intern Jonah Ballard about the festival.
  • A black and white line drawing of an early steam locomotive stopped at a station labeled "DEPOT." The train's engine features a large, funnel-shaped smokestack emitting a thick plume of dark smoke. Several figures are present: a man in a top hat and a woman in a Victorian-style dress stand on the station platform, while workers near the back of the engine appear to be loading wood or coal .
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    First railroad in Indiana, ca. 1851. From an illustration in a memoir by Oregon Trail pioneer Ezra Meeker.
    Oliver Smith got elected to Congress when his opponent pledged support for railroads, which in 1826 Indiana were not only nonexistent but almost mythological.

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  • There’s an antiphon that features in the masses for Easter Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Its words begin: “This is the day the Lord has made,” and ends with a joyous Alleluya. This week on Harmonia, exultant music for Easter. Join us!
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