Southern Experience

Heaton: 10 Essential Tips for Moving to the South

Embrace Southern hospitality with these essential tips on traditions, food, and customs to help you settle into your new home.

Park: My Wish List re: Guns in America

  In light of President Obama’s recent expansion of background checks via his executive order and his State of the Union address, this gun owner...

OFF Alumni Filmmakers Return in Droves

HottyToddy.com’s 2016 Oxford Film Festival (OFF) coverage continues today, picking up where we left off on Monday by featuring OFF veterans and their return...

TJ Ray: A Salute to Holly Spring and the Mississippi Industrial College

Not everything was damaged or destroyed in the tornado that ripped through our friendly and neighborly county to the north earlier this month; although...

Oxford Stories: Small Town Girl Meets College Life

Growing up in Belden, Mississippi, a small country town in Pontotoc County, I always had big dreams. As a child, I knew that I was...

6th Annual Oxford Fiber Arts Festival Kicks Off January 28

The Powerhouse hosts it but Knit1 produces and maintains the annual Oxford Fiber Arts Festival; you know, the one that is set to kick...

Next Stop: Oxford – Nebraska Couple Leads Kerouacian Existence

Hey Jack Kerouac I think of your mother And the tears she cried They would cry for none other Than her little boy lost in a little world...

NPR: For Growing Partisan Divide, The Bridge is Still Out

Conservative former Senator Trent Lott talks about the great political divide across the nation, including his relationship with liberal brother-in-law, Dick Scruggs, who is...

‘Cowboy Up’ by Shane Brown

My heart started racing when I strapped the rope around the chest of the brahma heifer's chest. I strapped it tight and pulled the part...

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebrated at Burns-Belfry Museum

African American history takes center stage from 1-5 p.m. today as the Burns-Belfry Museum celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. According to its website BurnsBelfryMuseum,...

Oxford Stories: The Southern Yankee – 20 Vital Tips on Moving from the North to Dixie

A “Southern Yankee” – oxymoronic right? That’s exactly what it feels like to move from the North to the South. It’s culture shock. It’s...