In 1891, James Naismith was tasked by his employer at the Y.M.C.A. International Training School at Springfield, Massachusetts, to come…
January 6, 2022, will mark the 54th year anniversary of the Vietnam War battle of Xom Bung, a fight that…
Those of us who have come to believe that Indiana is the only state that harbored great boys’ high school…
I’ve always enjoyed doing research, seeking out and discovering interesting but unexplored stories about people that reveal long hidden dramas…
In the early morning hours of May 30, 1986, Oakland City College’s Student Memorial Gymnasium was destroyed by a fire…
Of all my boyhood adventures in rural southern Illinois, nothing ever matched the experience of exploring, with my older brother,…
In the time of my early boyhood, my family and almost all our southern Illinois neighbors lived in farmhouses that…
While Indiana has such a rich history of high school basketball, it is easy for many of the stories of…
Today is my little brother, Marty Mills’ 60th birthday. To celebrate this special event, I share this story of how…
Stories of iconic American figures can often become stale, losing much of their meaning in their repeated tellings from generation…