Focus on Flowers

A collection of short conversations about love from members of the community who were recorded by StoryCorps, during their visit to Bloomington last summer.

For Valentine’s Day, most of us will buy flowers, and those flowers are already enroute to us from abroad.

Aaron Cain speaks with conductor Patrick Summers, Artistic and Music Director of Houston Grand Opera.

Native plants are well adapted to our growing conditions, and so most of them are easy to grow and need only minimal care once established.

Meet The Art Collector Next Door, visit architectural marvel Columbus, Indiana, and more.

The cornetto is a woodwind instrument with a brass-style cup mouth piece which flourished in the mid 1600’s, in the early to middle-baroque period.

This year, I’m going to buy more plants that provide food and shelter for pollinators.

Dana Marsh speaks with Bruce Dickey, one of a few musicians who have dedicated themselves to reviving the cornetto, which fell into disuse in the 19th century.

Liatris attracts lots of those lovely Monarch butterflies into our gardens.

Steve Sanders speaks with Brooklyn Law School Professor William Araiza about giving new life to the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection.