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Category: News

Held in High Esteem: The True Story of Two Midwest Outlaw Brothers who came to Hide in the Horse Creek Region of Southern Illinois.

January 10, 2021 Randy Mills

There is at least one unconfirmed story out there about Jesse James and his gang spending time in Farrington Township…

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Posted in: Human Interest, News

My Blow-Out Team: A Story about Oakland City College Intramural Basketball in the Early 1970s

January 7, 2021 Randy Mills

Intramural sports have long played an important but under-recognized role down through the years in the Oakland City College/University culture.…

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Posted in: Human Interest, News Filed under: Intramural sports, memoir, Oakland City College history

The Most Barbaric Sound: Rock and Roll Bands and the Vietnam War Come to Oakland City College

January 2, 2021 Randy Mills

Oakland City College in the mid to late 1960s, despite its remote location and a mostly conventional student body, still…

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Living with the General: How Irish Twins Made Peace

December 31, 2020 Randy Mills

To have a brother eleven months older than you, an Irish twin, is to have a constant companion and a…

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Unlucky in Love: The Forgotten Love Story of Oakland City College’s Ella Wheatley

December 27, 2020 Randy Mills

Randy Mills There are many unsung heroes who were deeply involved in the early nurturing of Oakland City College, but…

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“Just Making Myself Count”: A Vietnam War Christmas Story

December 9, 2020 Randy Mills

Tobey Herzog, in his book, Vietnam War Stories: Innocence Loss, believed there were lessons to be learned from Vietnam War…

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Posted in: Events, Human Interest, News Filed under: Christmas, Vietnam War

Our Woods

November 21, 2020 Randy Mills

Like the adult southern Illinois farmers who lived around us in the late 1950s, my older brother, Marshall, and I…

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Posted in: News Filed under: memoir, rural southern Illinois

“The People’s Choice”: A Classic Story of a Small Town Indiana Basketball Team

November 18, 2020 Roxanne Mills

In the late winter of 1967, an iconic Hoosier dream of basketball success was unfolding in the small town of…

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Posted in: News Filed under: 1960s high school basketball, Charlie Brauser, Hoosier basketball history, Indiana high school basketball, Oakland City acorns

Vote for the Jones Boy: How I Learned Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Politics

September 9, 2020 Randy Mills

My father’s people immersed themselves in local political affairs with the same fervor they showed when they were baptized in…

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How My Dad and the 1961 Oakland City High School Football Team Saved Johnson’s Restaurant

July 25, 2020 Roxanne Mills

For almost three decades, Johnson’s Restaurant in Oakland City, Indiana, was a favorite place to go, to eat great food,…

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