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Category: Human Interest

A Heartbreaking Loss: The Story of the 1942-1943 Waltonville Commandos

March 4, 2019 Randy Mills

While my book, An Almost Perfect Season, primarily features Bluford basketball teams, the book also give ample space to many…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: basketball, high school basketball, Waltonville, Waltonville Commandos

Southern Illinois’ Elegant Elephant: The Guy Lee Turner Story

February 18, 2019 Randy Mills

In the book An Almost Perfect Season: A Father and Son and a Golden Age of Small Town High School…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: basketball, elegant elephant, Guy Lee Turner, Guy Turner, high school basketball, human interest

On My Mother’s Birthday

December 3, 2018 Randy Mills

Today our sweet mother, Mary Alice Newell, would have been ninety-one. In the photo of her holding a small dog,…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: family, family history, mother, Newell

Nobody is Going to Fight for Us

October 25, 2018 Roxanne Mills

While Randy and I have written two books and several articles together about Hoosiers in combat, there was one story…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: Howard Trockman, Journal for the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Thomas Boyd, Vietnam, Vietnam War

The Walkout

October 15, 2018 Randy Mills

Digging through the artifacts in the Oakland City University library archives can be enlightening, sometimes dredging up little mysteries to…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: History, Oakland City College, Oakland City University, OCC, OCU, Otis Johnson, school newspaper, walkout

Religion & the Divided Frontier

September 25, 2018 Randy Mills

On September 19th, Danny Dunivan and I had the exciting opportunity to represent Oakland City University as guess panelists at…

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Posted in: Events, Human Interest Filed under: discussion panel, History, Oakland City University, Religion, Religion and the Divided Frontier

High School Basketball

July 24, 2018 Randy Mills

This photo, taken from the 1969 Webber Township (Bluford) High School yearbook, shows me as a rather solemn looking senior…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: basketball, Bluford High School, high school, memoir, Webber Township

Wherefrom the General Baptists of the Midwest and Upper South?

June 26, 2018 Randy Mills

In 1994, the Indiana Historical Society awarded me a generous CLIO Grant to carry out research and write about a…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: articles, General Baptists, History, Indiana Magazine of History, published article, Religion

Dear Dad…

June 16, 2018 Randy Mills

I found this photo in Mary Frances’ worn brown scrapbook, the one filled with the letters you sent her when…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: dad, family, family history, father, fathers' day

An Officer of Admirable Courage

June 11, 2018 Randy Mills

Lyles Station, Indiana native Aaron Fisher was Indiana’s most highly decorated African American soldier of WWI.  I wrote an article about…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: Aaron Fisher, Indiana History, Lt. Fisher, Lyles Station, military, Traces, Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, World War I, WWI

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