So many fascinating southern Illinois high school basketball stories have been lost in the dark shadows of time. Exploring old…
There was something ancient and communal about small-town high school basket in the 1960s—a rite of passage for young male…
In the early morning hours of May 30, 1986, Oakland City College’s Student Memorial Gymnasium was destroyed by a fire…
Over the years, Oakland City College/University has sent hundreds of basketball coaches out into the high school ranks. These graduates…
There is at least one unconfirmed story out there about Jesse James and his gang spending time in Farrington Township…
Intramural sports have long played an important but under-recognized role down through the years in the Oakland City College/University culture.…
Tobey Herzog, in his book, Vietnam War Stories: Innocence Loss, believed there were lessons to be learned from Vietnam War…
It was in the grassless plot just outside our back door where we “played little” with our toy tractors and…
In the first week of September, in 1937, my father became an unexpected statistic, the state health department noting that…
Slipping through the door of Leonard Wilson’s General Store in the 1950s was to step into a place of community…