Like other young boys growing up in the 1950s in the Horse Creek region of rural southern Illinois, I was…
It was late October in southern Illinois, a time when the leaves were morphing into astounding colors of yellow,…
My first real job, hauling hay for a farmer I hardly knew, started on a bad note. This was in…
My dad loved to quail hunt, a yearly ritual that began during the relatively warm Indian summer days of November.…
In 1891, James Naismith was tasked by his employer at the Y.M.C.A. International Training School at Springfield, Massachusetts, to come…
January 6, 2022, will mark the 54th year anniversary of the Vietnam War battle of Xom Bung, a fight that…
Those of us who have come to believe that Indiana is the only state that harbored great boys’ high school…
I’ve always enjoyed doing research, seeking out and discovering interesting but unexplored stories about people that reveal long hidden dramas…
In the early morning hours of May 30, 1986, Oakland City College’s Student Memorial Gymnasium was destroyed by a fire…
Of all my boyhood adventures in rural southern Illinois, nothing ever matched the experience of exploring, with my older brother,…