Category: Columns

When Oxford Freezes

Posted by Jenna Mason | Jan 10, 2018 | Columns, Features | 0

Reinventing Willie

Aug 16, 2022 | Columns, Features, Jim Dees | 0

By: Jim Dees Reinventing Willie Oxford is known as a retirement destination but it’s also a place for those of any age to rebound from a crisis, tie up messy loose ends or reinvent yourself. Perhaps no one practiced this art...

Sing one for Son

Jun 1, 2022 | Columns, Jim Dees | 0

By Jim Dees This time of year is blues season with music festivals and outdoor concerts popping up like wild onions. The blues are a good teacher and that includes the late James “Son” Thomas of Leland. In the 1980s, Son would...

When Oxford Freezes

Jan 10, 2018 | Columns, Features | 0

Like most Southern towns, Oxford has a strange and curious history with snow and ice.

The Redneck Riviera

Jul 19, 2017 | Columns, Features | 0

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.

Avent Park’s Fourth of July

Jul 19, 2017 | Around Town, Columns, Features | 0

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.