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Author: Randy Mills

The Newell Letters

March 18, 2019 Randy Mills

The Story of a Waltonville Boy, Jimmy Newell, who traveled to the Big City in 1906, as Told through Family…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: family, family history, geneology, illinois, Waltonville, Waltonville Illinois

A Heartbreaking Loss: The Story of the 1942-1943 Waltonville Commandos

March 4, 2019 Randy Mills

While my book, An Almost Perfect Season, primarily features Bluford basketball teams, the book also give ample space to many…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: basketball, high school basketball, Waltonville, Waltonville Commandos

Southern Illinois’ Elegant Elephant: The Guy Lee Turner Story

February 18, 2019 Randy Mills

In the book An Almost Perfect Season: A Father and Son and a Golden Age of Small Town High School…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: basketball, elegant elephant, Guy Lee Turner, Guy Turner, high school basketball, human interest

Coming In the Fall of 2019

January 30, 2019 Randy Mills

In the 1968-1969 Illinois high school basketball season, tiny Bluford High School, having just over a hundred students, reeled off…

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Posted in: Events Filed under: 1960s basketball, basketball, Blueford, Blueford Basketball, Blueford Trojans, book, high school, high school basketball, illinois, southern illinois, Trojans, upcoming book

On My Mother’s Birthday

December 3, 2018 Randy Mills

Today our sweet mother, Mary Alice Newell, would have been ninety-one. In the photo of her holding a small dog,…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: family, family history, mother, Newell

Keynote at VU Veterans’ Day Program

November 12, 2018 Randy Mills

I had the special privilege of being the keynote speaker at Vincennes University’s Veterans’ Day program on Thursday, November 8th,…

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Posted in: News

The Walkout

October 15, 2018 Randy Mills

Digging through the artifacts in the Oakland City University library archives can be enlightening, sometimes dredging up little mysteries to…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: History, Oakland City College, Oakland City University, OCC, OCU, Otis Johnson, school newspaper, walkout

Religion & the Divided Frontier

September 25, 2018 Randy Mills

On September 19th, Danny Dunivan and I had the exciting opportunity to represent Oakland City University as guess panelists at…

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Posted in: Events, Human Interest Filed under: discussion panel, History, Oakland City University, Religion, Religion and the Divided Frontier

High School Basketball

July 24, 2018 Randy Mills

This photo, taken from the 1969 Webber Township (Bluford) High School yearbook, shows me as a rather solemn looking senior…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: basketball, Bluford High School, high school, memoir, Webber Township

Interview on WFYI’s ‘No Limits’

July 9, 2018 Randy Mills

Roxanne and I were recently interviewed on Indianapolis NPR station, WFYI by John Krull. John hosts the show No Limits. It always such…

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Posted in: Events, Reviews Filed under: No Limits, No Limits with John Krull, NPR, radio broadcast, radio interview, WFYI

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