The important teachers in my life were not only in school, they were everywhere. Some of their essential teachings, however,…
There is at least one unconfirmed story out there about Jesse James and his gang spending time in Farrington Township…
Intramural sports have long played an important but under-recognized role down through the years in the Oakland City College/University culture.…
Oakland City College in the mid to late 1960s, despite its remote location and a mostly conventional student body, still…
To have a brother eleven months older than you, an Irish twin, is to have a constant companion and a…
Randy Mills There are many unsung heroes who were deeply involved in the early nurturing of Oakland City College, but…
Tobey Herzog, in his book, Vietnam War Stories: Innocence Loss, believed there were lessons to be learned from Vietnam War…
Like the adult southern Illinois farmers who lived around us in the late 1950s, my older brother, Marshall, and I…
In the late winter of 1967, an iconic Hoosier dream of basketball success was unfolding in the small town of…
My father’s people immersed themselves in local political affairs with the same fervor they showed when they were baptized in…
For almost three decades, Johnson’s Restaurant in Oakland City, Indiana, was a favorite place to go, to eat great food,…
It was in the grassless plot just outside our back door where we “played little” with our toy tractors and…