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Tag: memoir

The Road Taken

December 3, 2021 Randy Mills

I’ve always enjoyed doing research, seeking out and discovering interesting but unexplored stories about people that reveal long hidden dramas…

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Posted in: News Filed under: memoir, mother, southern illinois

“Stride, set, shoot”: A Story of Merle McRaven

January 28, 2021 Randy Mills

The important teachers in my life were not only in school, they were everywhere. Some of their essential teachings, however,…

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Posted in: News Filed under: memoir, small-town basketball, the sixties

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

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

Twenty-Six Bones

March 10, 2020 Andrea Turner

There are 26 bones in the human foot (28 if you include the sesamoid bones at the base of the big toe). The Basic Book of Human Anatomy…

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Posted in: Human Interest Filed under: family history, memoir, plane crash

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
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