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Category: Human Interest

In a Class of his Own

December 17, 2019 Randy Mills

It was my recent privilege to write an article for the fall 2019 issue of the Indiana Basketball History Magazine…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: basketball, Dave Schellhase, Evansville North, Evansville North basketball, Evansville North High School, high school basketball

Marshall Says He’ll Share His Car with you: The Story of my Family’s Romance with Cars

November 7, 2019 Randy Mills

While waiting for the release of my Bluford  basketball book, I thought I’d send out a story for all the…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: cars, family, Marshall, Marshall Mills

A Tale of Two Swords

September 23, 2019 Randy Mills

I would be the first to admit my lacking an appreciation for plays, my appetite for such advanced cultural things…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: drama club, Oakland City College, oakland city college drama club, occ drama club, theater, theatre

Don’t you be going into any caves: The First Year College Adventures of a Southern Illinois Farm Boy

September 3, 2019 Randy Mills

It was fifty years ago this week, but seems like only yesterday. I was the first of my parents’ children…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: college, College in the 70's, History, Oakland City College, OCC

Best Friends to the End

August 12, 2019 Randy Mills

Princeton, Indiana, native Dick Wolfe and Alabama native Robert Hilley could have never imagined being thrown together in the cauldron…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: Alabama Heritage, Alpha Comany, Dick Wolfe, Robert Hilley, Vietnam, Vietnam War

Our Love Won’t End: The tragic death of Corvette keyboardist Mike Blythe

July 29, 2019 Roxanne Mills

Oakland City Indiana’s very own rock band, The Darndest Things, as well as most other area garage bands in the…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: 1960s, Corvettes, local band, Mike Blythe, music, Oakland City College

Oakland City College and me Fifty Years Ago

July 24, 2019 Randy Mills

It will be fifty years ago in early September of 2019 that I, a scared seventeen-year-old teenager from southern Illinois,…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: 1960s, 1970's, Age of Aquarius, Oakland City College, Oakland City College durring the Age of Aquarius, Oakland City University, OCC, OCU, The Scent of Rebellion is in the Air

McLeansboro’s Dick Jones: Southern Illinois’ Congenial High School Basketball Coach

July 9, 2019 Randy Mills

Southern Illinois basketball stories can sometimes pop up in such unexpected places. My interest in Coach Dick Jones is just…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: Basketball Coach, Coach, Dick Jones, McLeansboro, McLeansboro Foxes, Richard Jones

The Darndest Things: How a local band in the 60s rocked our lives

July 2, 2019 Roxanne Mills

Like many baby boomers, my husband Randy and I often listen to the “oldies” while traveling.  A few years ago,…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: 60s rock, Carnaby Street, dance, street dance, The Darndest Thing

A Farrington Kid

June 19, 2019 Randy Mills

There were fifteen rural grade schools in Jefferson County, Illinois, when I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s,…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: a father and don and a golden age of small town hitgh school basketball, an almost perfect season, basketball, farrington eagles, high school basketball, illinois, Illinois basketball, Illinois high school basketball, middle school basketball, small town basketball

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