Turbulent times at 19th century Bloomington hotel

By Bill Kemp. Published on April 4, 2006.
The Ashley House, Bloomington’s largest hotel from the Civil War until its fiery end in 1900, had a tumultuous history replete with fin...
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Intrepid Pantagrapher paid visit to Santa’s North Pole

By Bill Kemp. Published on December 2, 2018.
In 1897, 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon famously wrote the New York Sun newspaper to ask if that “jolly old elf” was in fact real. One wo...