The 1950s and on through the early 1970s was a golden age of high school basketball in the Midwest and…
Like other young boys growing up in the 1950s in the Horse Creek region of rural southern Illinois, I was…
I’ve always enjoyed doing research, seeking out and discovering interesting but unexplored stories about people that reveal long hidden dramas…
Of all my boyhood adventures in rural southern Illinois, nothing ever matched the experience of exploring, with my older brother,…
In the 1968-1969 Illinois high school basketball season, tiny Bluford High School, having just over a hundred students, reeled off…