All Dressed Up
This file appears in: Hoagy Carmichael Growing Up in Bloomington
An informal picture of Hoagy, his mother Lida, and his sister Georgia on the IU campus taken when Hoagy was a child. Inscribed on the back in Hoagy's handwriting, "Jazzy suit and hat. Georgia on right. Mother looks pretty jazzy, too."
This file appears in: Hoagy Carmichael Growing Up in Bloomington
Hoagy Carmichael Growing Up in Bloomington
In his unpublished memoir Jazzbanders, Hoagy said of his hometown, “Bloomington offered everything. Creeks, ponds, rabbits, circuses and wide open spaces. I could cross a dusty street here in my bare feet without the aid of a traffic cop.” The…