I viewed the country life as one of self-sufficiency, masculinity, freedom, calm. Knowledge that provided understanding of how to live off the land, use a knife to skin an animal, cultivate and grow a garden, build something out of nothing.
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Like any good community tradition forced to change with the times, Oxford’s Fourth of July celebration will always be synonymous with the city’s Avent Park.
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From Mississippi to Manhattan How an Ole Miss alum with a love for photography stopped at nothing...
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Joe Rogers weighs in on Ole Miss graduates and their abiding affection for Oxford, Mississippi.
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Contributing Editor Jim Dees reflects on Mississippi’s mysterious month of June.
Read MoreThinking of Willie and Jim one realizes that Jim was right. Yes, they are both dead, but thanks to the work of their lives, including these two new, wonderful books, they’ll never be gone.
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This is the one city in France people tell you to avoid. Too much crime, they say, too many Arabs, too many Africans, a Mafia stronghold that was knows as the “French Chicago” back in the 1930s, a time when British writer Basil Woon labeled it “the world’s wickedest port.”
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The attributes and amenities of Oxford are well known: our civic charm, temperate weather and ravenous parking meters. But another plus of living here is how easy it is to get somewhere else.
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A foreboding new phrase has entered our national lexicon, “a new normal,” which sounds innocent enough, but translates roughly into the more familiar, “Uh oh.”
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Dawn knew things I didn’t, like how to blow a bubble inside of a bubble and that the school bus would let a student the driver didn’t know ride home with another student without a note from parents.
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