It will be fifty years ago in early September of 2019 that I, a scared seventeen-year-old teenager from southern Illinois,…
Southern Illinois basketball stories can sometimes pop up in such unexpected places. My interest in Coach Dick Jones is just…
Like many baby boomers, my husband Randy and I often listen to the “oldies” while traveling. A few years ago,…
There were fifteen rural grade schools in Jefferson County, Illinois, when I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s,…
One of my favorite events that I related in the book An Almost Perfect Season: A Father and Son and…
The coldest day on record in southern Illinois was February 2, 1951. A dome of bitter Arctic air settled over…
A Country Boy on a City Boy Basketball Team Some of the great Illinois high school basketball players sometimes get…
One of southern Illinois’ most successful basketball teams you probably never heard of. Accounts from Illinois newspaper sports pages clearly…
A Brief History of Some of the Best Bluford High School Basketball Teams and Scorers, 1950-1970 During the exciting, highly…
The Story of a Waltonville Boy, Jimmy Newell, who traveled to the Big City in 1906, as Told through Family…