Big Mike’s B-town: Abegunde, Writing to Heal
Dr. Maria Hamilton Abegunde has been given many names, each one representative of her own history, her family’s history, and her Yoruba cultural heritage. And, like her names, Abegunde’s work represents the personal and the historical. LP columnist Michael G. Glab talks with the poet and scholar about her work with healing and social justice.
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Ross Lockridge Jr., a Great American Tragedy
In 1948, Ross Lockridge Jr. died by suicide in Bloomington just months after his best-selling novel,
Raintree County, was published. In 2014, Doug Storm interviewed two of Lockridge’s sons for
Interchange, his show on WFHB. Here, Storm writes about the sons’ conflicting opinions on the suicide and the assessment of
Raintree County as the Great American Novel.
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