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You may have heard the legend of the town that’s below the surface of Monroe Lake, Indiana’s largest man-made lake. Learn the true story of Elkinsville in this 2003 documentary from WTIU.
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The Indiana University Center for Rural Engagement and the Indiana Landmarks Black Heritage Preservation Program are working to uncover and preserve the history of Black people across the state.
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WTIU Public Television and the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music have earned a Regional Emmy® Award for The Nutcracker at the Jacobs School of Music, a nationally distributed production that brings Sasha Janes’ acclaimed reimagining of the holiday classic to PBS audiences across the country.
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What does it take to turn history into something people can see and experience?
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Have you noticed if you yawn, your pet tends to copy you? Why does that happen?
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WFIU invites you to a summer evening filled with live jazz, community spirit, and music under the evening sky at Jazz in July: Columbus. This free outdoor concert features the Visions Jazz Ensemble, led by Indianapolis trumpeter and composer Sam Butler, whose performances blend classic jazz traditions with contemporary influences and vibrant improvisation. -
Indiana Public Media invites community members to join us for a conversation about the issues, opportunities, and stories that deserve more attention in their community.
Vigo County Public Library - Main Library (Lifelong Learning Center)
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Celebrate 250 years of American history with the Monroe County History Center and Indiana Public Media (WFIU/WTIU) on Saturday, July 11th from 12-3pm on the Monroe County History Center front lawn. Enjoy hands on activities, live music, educational demos, guided tours, and more! Plus at 2 pm, watch a special screening of clips from the new PBS docuseries THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. After the screening, attendees are encouraged to visit the History Center’s exhibition of Monroe County Revolutionary War veterans. This screening, and all the block party activities are free and open to the public.
Danny William
We’re saying goodbye to Nice Work this week. For our last show, hosts Tyler Lake and Alex Chambers talk about some of their favorite moments, look back at stories and interviews and reflect on what they hoped the show would accomplish.
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Mary Dezember reads her poems " Wild Conviction Epigraph: Poem 1," and "Poetry within the story: Poems 2-4" from her novel, Wild Conviction.
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Gary—a city that social reformers had already dubbed the “City of the Century”—seemed a perfect site to try out new types of urban housing.
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About 150 years ago, Indiana nearly bankrupted itself building a statewide canal system. Now, a new archaeological project seeks to learn more about this maligned period of Indiana history.
In case you missed it!
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A look at celebrations of summer in vocal jazz and traditional popular song.
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Wikimedia Commons, BNFWe’re exploring music in and about the Americas during the first centuries of European colonization. We begin our journey in New France with the musical legacies of Jesuit missions, fur trading outposts, and occupied indigenous nations.
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In 1957 tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins was at the peak of his first great period, playing with a confident, swinging, and radical abandon both as a leader and with Max Roach and Miles Davis.
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While blind people can learn that roses are red, how deep is this understanding of “redness”? -
Learn more about the practical effect known as Pepper's ghost illusion. -
Additional oversight coming for public-virtual school partnerships. -
The convention is Thursday through Sunday at the Indiana Memorial Union and Lilly Library on campus. -
Activists are calling on the RDC to go into a special session to negotiate with the CIB on a land transfer before the hotel developer is decided. -
A spokesperson for the Monroe Fire Protection District says medics responded to an emergency at an address matching Emmanuel church in Bloomington, which was hosting a fireworks show. -
Two Bigfoot enthusiasts have opened a sasquatch themed store and research center in Brown County. -
Brian English announced his resignation in a LinkedIn post, writing that he had helped turn around many of the problems at the facility used to house ICE detainees. -
Indiana's utility consumer watchdog will ask regulators to reconsider a $71 million AES Indiana rate increase, setting off a legal process that could reopen a contested approval. -
While water levels at Monroe Lake are still well above normal, the lake is open and safe for boating this holiday weekend.
