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.

The Run Of the Place, Part X — Oxford Memories

I knew all along I'd never make it to the top, but, age and anger knows no admission of average. The old faces and facades...

How I Cured Homesickness with Catfish

Two years ago, I was living in Boston and working toward my master's degree. That summer, I took a course on new media which...

How to Keep Swimmer’s Ear From Ruining Your Summer

The content and information below is republished with permission from the Cleveland Clinic. You may be surprised to learn that the shape of your ears...

Oxford Skateboarding History: Behind the Anchorage Building

In 1986, there was no skateboard park in Oxford. There were no half pipes. No launch ramps yet. We'd only seen those things in...

Cofield on Oxford: Faulkner Has Fans Everywhere — Especially Japan

I was talking with a friend yesterday and we were discussing whether Oxford appreciated Mr. Faulkner, then, or now, or not. And then a...

10 Things That Surprised Me About New York City: A Southern Perspective

A trip to New York City is a once in a lifetime opportunity that you just can’t, and shouldn't, pass up. Opinions of the...

UM, City of Oxford Renew Fire Contract

Maintaining the longstanding arrangement that yields substantial savings and an improved fire rating, the University of Mississippi has renewed its quadrennial fire protection contract...

Oxford University Bank Has New Location, Same Great Products, Service

There's no shortage of banks in Oxford, but only a couple of locally founded and operated institutions. Oxford University Bank is one of those...

Gift Provides a Tribute to Lifelong Friendship, Gifted Scholarship

Much like chess pieces moving around a game board, Ruff Fant and Hubert McAlexander have been in and around each other’s lives since they...