October Art at the Blue Bottle - Photos by Earl Conn

Photos by Earl Conn will be on display throughout October at Blue Bottle coffee shop in Downtown Muncie.

Earl L. Conn is a Muncie, Indiana, writer, photographer, and speaker.

His weekly column, "Traveling Indiana," which appears in five Indiana newspapers, is based on his visits to historic and interesting places around the Hoosier state.

Photographs from his travels are on display at the Indiana History Center in Indianapolis at the History Market. He has written five books and more than 700 published articles. His most recent book is the just-published My Indiana: 101 Places To See, with text and some 300 photos based on his weekly columns and published by the Indiana Historical Society Press.

Others include Beneficence: Stories About the Ball Families of Muncie, published in 2003, Painting Indiana, for which he wrote 600-word essays about Indiana's 92 counties, published in 2000; a history of Ball State University's Administration Building, and a text on business writing.

He also has worked for newspapers, a news service, and as a military writer. He was founding editor of Quaker Life magazine.

He is founding dean emeritus of the College of Communication, Information, and Media at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Previously, he was chair of the Department of Journalism for 12 years. He taught university journalism for 40 years. Conn holds degrees from the University of Kentucky, Ball State University, and Indiana University.


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