In the book An Almost Perfect Season: A Father and Son and a Golden Age of Small Town High School…
In the 1968-1969 Illinois high school basketball season, tiny Bluford High School, having just over a hundred students, reeled off…
Today our sweet mother, Mary Alice Newell, would have been ninety-one. In the photo of her holding a small dog,…
I had the special privilege of being the keynote speaker at Vincennes University’s Veterans’ Day program on Thursday, November 8th,…
Digging through the artifacts in the Oakland City University library archives can be enlightening, sometimes dredging up little mysteries to…
On September 19th, Danny Dunivan and I had the exciting opportunity to represent Oakland City University as guess panelists at…
This photo, taken from the 1969 Webber Township (Bluford) High School yearbook, shows me as a rather solemn looking senior…
Roxanne and I were recently interviewed on Indianapolis NPR station, WFYI by John Krull. John hosts the show No Limits. It always such…
In 1994, the Indiana Historical Society awarded me a generous CLIO Grant to carry out research and write about a…
I found this photo in Mary Frances’ worn brown scrapbook, the one filled with the letters you sent her when…