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 Oxford, Mississippi Dictionary: Behindoplasty

Needed nomenclature for a growing community. Editor’s Note: This is an installment in a series of blogs on new Oxfordisms. When I traverse Oxford’s highways, byways, sidewalks, and...

Ya-Ka-Mein in New Orleans

This week’s Featured oral history project is hot out of the pot: Ya-Ka-Mein in New Orleans. Ya-ka-mein. Yakimi. Yet-ca-mein. Yak e mein. Yacamein. Ya-ka-meat. Yaka...

NWCC Education Majors Make Hall of Fame

Just this past week, the 2014 Northwest Hall of Fame was announced, and three of the 11 students named to this highest honor were...

Calling All Rebels to Show True Spirit of Ole Miss

What Kind Of Rebel Are You -- Yeah that's a legit question this very day at Ole Miss. In fact, it has always been...

Wicker Unemployment Still a Top Concern Five Years After Obama's Failed Stimulus

Five years ago, President Obama assured Americans that his stimulus plan would generate "shovel-ready" jobs and jumpstart the economy. At a cost of nearly...

Bramlett Is Historical Oxford Name, Cherished 5th-Grade Teacher

  The name Bramlett is easy to find in Oxford history. My brother, Glenn, was born in the old Bramlett Hospital. We all started school at...

Busting 5 Myths About Blood Pressure and Heart Rate

Blood pressure and heart rate go hand in hand (or arm in cuff) in most people’s minds. After all, these two “vital signs” are...

Star Package Sell Spirits, Celebrates Spirited History

Star Package houses more than just bottled spirits. The history of this particular liquor store’s location holds the rough-and-tumble spirit of Oxford's past within...

African American Males' Perspective on Acts of Vandalism

Early Sunday morning, two suspects came onto the University of Mississippi campus and hung a noose and an old Georgia state flag around the...

Be Kind: Positive Changes Happening at Lafayette Middle School

Lafayette County Middle School recently started the “Be Kind” program in hopes of encouraging students to be kinder to each other. The school has...