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Butch Agrees That Age Is a State of Mind

   One of my former students called me last week, and we caught up on...

Butch Sees Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign

  Last week I drove a friend to a doctor's appointment in Fishers...SR 32 to...

Butch Recalls Montgomery County ‘Cold Case’ Murders

    If you watch the news on an Indy channel, you know that murders occur...

Butch Thinks You Might Like the ‘Back Road’

   My folks made several trips to Crawfordsville through the years when I was a...

Have a Bad Day? Butch Says Take a Lesson from Fido!

Did you ever have one of those days when everything goes wrong? I guess just...

Butch Recalls School During the War Years . . .

  From the early 1900s to the 1970s, our country was involved in four military...

Butch Recalls the Amazing Tribbett Brothers

  On a few occasions when I was a youngster, I accompanied my Dad when...

Butch’s Cousins Are in the Principal’s Office!

  When I wrote a book about Darlington School in 1988, I interviewed hundreds of...

Butch Wants Pat to Give Him One More Chance!

   As you all know, Montgomery County has always been a hot spot for basketball....

Butch Says Goodbye to the Outhouse!

   I think you fellow "baby-boomers" would agree that the present generation of whipper-snappers might...