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Category: Human Interest

The Season of the Summer Plague: One Family’s Story

April 30, 2020 Andrea Turner

In the first week of September, in 1937, my father became an unexpected statistic, the state health department noting that…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: childhood disease, family history, polio

All the Candy and Ice-Cream You Could Ever Want

April 20, 2020 Randy Mills

Slipping through the door of Leonard Wilson’s General Store in the 1950s was to step into a place of community…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: family history, Keith Mills, mills general store

Twenty-Six Bones

March 10, 2020 Andrea Turner

There are 26 bones in the human foot (28 if you include the sesamoid bones at the base of the big toe). The Basic Book of Human Anatomy…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: family history, memoir, plane crash

That’s it! We’re going Home: The Story of my Family’s One and Only Vacation

February 21, 2020 Andrea Turner

Funny how seemingly unrelated events can connect into undeniable cause-effect scenarios that when looked back upon, seem nothing less than…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: family, family history, family vacation, national park, rushmore, vacation, yellowstone

In a Class of his Own

December 17, 2019 Randy Mills

It was my recent privilege to write an article for the fall 2019 issue of the Indiana Basketball History Magazine…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: basketball, Dave Schellhase, Evansville North, Evansville North basketball, Evansville North High School, high school basketball

Marshall Says He’ll Share His Car with you: The Story of my Family’s Romance with Cars

November 7, 2019 Randy Mills

While waiting for the release of my Bluford  basketball book, I thought I’d send out a story for all the…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: cars, family, Marshall, Marshall Mills

A Tale of Two Swords

September 23, 2019 Randy Mills

I would be the first to admit my lacking an appreciation for advanced cultural things such as theater plays was…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: drama club, Oakland City College, oakland city college drama club, occ drama club, theater, theatre

Don’t you be going into any caves: The First Year College Adventures of a Southern Illinois Farm Boy

September 3, 2019 Randy Mills

It was fifty years ago this week, but seems like only yesterday. I was the first of my parents’ children…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: college, College in the 70's, History, Oakland City College, OCC

Best Friends to the End

August 12, 2019 Randy Mills

Princeton, Indiana, native Dick Wolfe and Alabama native Robert Hilley could have never imagined being thrown together in the cauldron…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: Alabama Heritage, Alpha Comany, Dick Wolfe, Robert Hilley, Vietnam, Vietnam War

Our Love Won’t End: The tragic death of Corvette keyboardist Mike Blythe

July 29, 2019 Roxanne Mills

Oakland City Indiana’s very own rock band, The Darndest Things, as well as most other area garage bands in the…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: 1960s, Corvettes, local band, Mike Blythe, music, Oakland City College

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