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An oral history of Red Hill High School in Bridgeport, IL
A 1993 regional replay lets you hear a former player wonder how he forgot the game.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A 1993 regional championship game returns through watch-along reactions, half-recovered memories, and Red Hill basketball lore.
Old School Red Hill revisits the 1993 Red Hill-Lawrenceville regional championship game from Olney, Illinois as a relaxed watch-along with Brian Emmons, Chip Jamerson, Gary Emmons, and Old School Mook.
A Christmas song list turns into Red Hill memories, school traditions, and friendly disagreement.
The holiday countdown gives this Old School Red Hill episode its shape, but the real draw is the way the list keeps opening side doors. Brian Emmons, Chip Jamerson, Gary Emmons, and David King move through Christmas-song picks that include Wham!'s "Last Christmas" and "Jingle…
A warm Christmas memory piece finds local history in chorus tryouts, school art, and karaoke.
The Old School Red Hill Podcast offers a warm, memory-led look at school life through recollections of chorus, special chorus tryouts, fifth- and sixth-grade art classes, and a holiday performance.
A local pyramid-style game turns teacher names, hometown references, and loose banter into an easygoing trip through shared memory.
Old School Red Hill frames a local pyramid-style game as shared memory, with Brian Emmons leading Chip Jamerson, Gary Emmons, and David King through clues rooted in Red Hill and Bridgeport.
A newspaper's production crisis opens into a warm, fragile piece of local history.
A 1978 issue of the Bridgeport Leader turns into a compact lesson in how fragile local news production could be. A fire early in the week is followed by a broken typesetting machine, a failed Mount Carmel press for the Leader-Times, a move to Princeton, and another press failure…
Miller Beach chaos, served breakfast-style.
Pennsylvania by county, landmark, and stone.
Nebraska culture, live and close to home.
This episode features a watch-along of the 1993 Red Hill vs.
Gary Emmons says The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" is one of his favorite songs ever.
Old School Red Hill uses the December 18, 20, and 23 papers to revisit Christmas at Red Hill, Bridgeport, and the K-5-6 Center.
Brian Emmons frames the return of a 2022 game as "the thousand dollar pyramid" with Red Hill and Bridgeport clues.
Old School Red Hill’s June 29, 1978 Bridgeport Leader covers a Unit 10 special board meeting, the Lions Jamboree, and Jim Herring’s 'Here and There' column.
A bonus episode of a local oral history podcast featuring a Vegas travel tips segment from a related show.
Hosts conduct a fantasy little league baseball draft, reminiscing about past players and building teams with a budget.
The hosts discuss a new idea to assemble and reminisce about 250 Little League players and coaches from Bridgeport.