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Tornado Season

April 23, 2022 Randy Mills

Like other young boys growing up in the 1950s in the Horse Creek region of rural southern Illinois, I was…

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Posted in: News Filed under: 1950s, memior, southern illinois, tornadoes

How the Fabulous Fox Found His Place in the Game He Loved. 

April 9, 2022 Randy Mills

  It was late October in southern Illinois, a time when the leaves were morphing into astounding colors of yellow,…

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Posted in: News Filed under: Evansville College basketball, Illinois high school basketball, Jerry Sloan

King of the Hay Fields

March 15, 2022 Randy Mills

My first real job, hauling hay for a farmer I hardly knew, started on a bad note.  This was in…

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The Oldest Things on Earth

March 5, 2022 Randy Mills

My dad loved to quail hunt, a yearly ritual that began during the relatively warm Indian summer days of November.…

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Bringing Audiences to Their Feet: Oakland City College and the Evolution of Early Basketball in Indiana

January 30, 2022 Randy Mills

In 1891, James Naismith was tasked by his employer at the Y.M.C.A. International Training School at Springfield, Massachusetts, to come…

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Posted in: News Filed under: Early Indiana basketball, Evansville High School, Evansville Y.M.C.A., History of Basketball, Oakland City College, Y.M.C.A.

Remembering Indiana Soldier Dick Wolfe

December 31, 2021 Roxanne Mills

January 6, 2022, will mark the 54th year anniversary of the Vietnam War battle of Xom Bung, a fight that…

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Posted in: News Filed under: Summer Wind, Vietnam War

“The Best High School Basketball Coach in the State of West Virginia”: Remembering Coach Paul Greer

December 27, 2021 Randy Mills

Those of us who have come to believe that Indiana is the only state that harbored great boys’ high school…

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Posted in: News Filed under: 1960s, high school basketball, Paul Greer, West Virginia

The Road Taken

December 3, 2021 Randy Mills

I’ve always enjoyed doing research, seeking out and discovering interesting but unexplored stories about people that reveal long hidden dramas…

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Posted in: News Filed under: memoir, mother, southern illinois

An Answer to a Prayer: Coach Charlie Trafton, Curt Gilstrap, and a Forgotten Era of Oakland City College Basketball

October 19, 2021 Randy Mills

In the early morning hours of May 30, 1986, Oakland City College’s Student Memorial Gymnasium was destroyed by a fire…

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Posted in: Human Interest, News Filed under: Coach Charlie Trafton, Curt Gilstrap, Oakland City College basketball

A Seething Presence: My Boyhood Adventures in Haunted Houses

September 19, 2021 Randy Mills

Of all my boyhood adventures in rural southern Illinois, nothing ever matched the experience of exploring, with my older brother,…

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Posted in: News Filed under: haunted houses, rural boyhood memories, southern illinois

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