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Category: Human Interest

Oakland City College and me Fifty Years Ago

July 24, 2019 Randy Mills

It will be fifty years ago in early September of 2019 that I, a scared seventeen-year-old teenager from southern Illinois,…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: 1960s, 1970's, Age of Aquarius, Oakland City College, Oakland City College durring the Age of Aquarius, Oakland City University, OCC, OCU, The Scent of Rebellion is in the Air

McLeansboro’s Dick Jones: Southern Illinois’ Congenial High School Basketball Coach

July 9, 2019 Randy Mills

Southern Illinois basketball stories can sometimes pop up in such unexpected places. My interest in Coach Dick Jones is just…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: Basketball Coach, Coach, Dick Jones, McLeansboro, McLeansboro Foxes, Richard Jones

The Darndest Things: How a local band in the 60s rocked our lives

July 2, 2019 Roxanne Mills

Like many baby boomers, my husband Randy and I often listen to the “oldies” while traveling.  A few years ago,…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: 60s rock, Carnaby Street, dance, street dance, The Darndest Thing

A Farrington Kid

June 19, 2019 Randy Mills

There were fifteen rural grade schools in Jefferson County, Illinois, when I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s,…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: a father and don and a golden age of small town hitgh school basketball, an almost perfect season, basketball, farrington eagles, high school basketball, illinois, Illinois basketball, Illinois high school basketball, middle school basketball, small town basketball

Memories of the Wayne City Holiday Tournament

May 24, 2019 Randy Mills

One of my favorite events that I related in the book An Almost Perfect Season: A Father and Son and…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: 1960s basketball, basketball, basketball tourney, Bluford High School, Bluford Trojans, Illinois basketball

What the Cows Saw

May 10, 2019 Randy Mills

The coldest day on record in southern Illinois was February 2, 1951. A dome of bitter Arctic air settled over…

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Posted in: Human Interest

Sledge Leads the Charge:

May 1, 2019 Randy Mills

A Country Boy on a City Boy Basketball Team Some of the great Illinois high school basketball players sometimes get…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: 1960s, 1960s basketball, basketball, high school, high school basketball, Illinois basketball, Illinois high school basketball, Mt. Vernon, Mt. Vernon Illinois, Mt. Vernon Rams, south eastern illinois high school basketball, southern illinois basketball

The 1968- 1969 Fairfield Mules

April 15, 2019 Randy Mills

One of southern Illinois’ most successful basketball teams you probably never heard of. Accounts from Illinois newspaper sports pages clearly…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: 1960s basketball, basketball, Fairfield, fairfield illinois, fairfield mules, high school basketball, illinois, southern illinois basketball

Trojans!

April 1, 2019 Randy Mills

A Brief History of Some of the Best Bluford High School Basketball Teams and Scorers, 1950-1970 During the exciting, highly…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: 1950s basketball, 1960s basketball, basketball, Bluford High School, Bluford Trojans, high school basketball, southern illinois basketball

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

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