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.

Revered Attorney and Professor Charles Walker Honored

Former students endow scholarship fund in Walker's name  A stickler for grammar, a lover of clever songwriting, and a "natural explainer," Charles Walker has had...

Realtree's Jordan Supports Vaught Foundation

Businessman, TV host family make gift to athletics programs When Bill Jordan visited the University of Mississippi as a blue chip wide-receiver recruit in 1968,...

Fatback Philanthropy (with cake)

On Monday night, right about the time my wife Blair and I took seats at a pop-up dinner at City Grocery here in Oxford,...

This Oxford Icon Was a Blacksmith With a Heart Forged in Gold

Marion Randolph Hall owned and operated his blacksmith shop on Tyler Avenue in Oxford from just before World War I until the 1970s. About this...

6 Ways Winter Affects Your Health

Winter does more than just raise your heating bill and chill your bones. It can have an effect on both your physical and mental...

Old Ethridge Home on South Lamar Leaves Lasting Impression

The home above is perhaps most commonly known as the Old Ethridge Home. Judge Ethridge owned the home before selling it in the early 1950. According...

Examples of Two Organizations with Positive, Caring Cultures

In today's world it is important to work in as positive a culture as possible. Several weeks ago I was at Goshen High School...

So You Think You're Smart Oxford, Ole Miss — Answer These Brain Twisters

Editor's note: We need a little help on this one. We encourage you ingenious readers to make a comment with the correct answer to...

North End Project Brings Awareness to Off-Square Shopping

It’s a proven fact there is strength in numbers. And that’s what is going on with Oxford’s “North End” project, a mutual joining of...

Perspective from a Wounded Warrior's Mother

Editor's Note: This is a followup to a story about the CJ Stewart Foundation that we posted on Jan. 20, 2014. Click Here to...