There were fifteen rural grade schools in Jefferson County, Illinois, when I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s,…
One of southern Illinois’ most successful basketball teams you probably never heard of. Accounts from Illinois newspaper sports pages clearly…
The Story of a Waltonville Boy, Jimmy Newell, who traveled to the Big City in 1906, as Told through Family…
In the 1968-1969 Illinois high school basketball season, tiny Bluford High School, having just over a hundred students, reeled off…