Southern Experience

Double Decker 2025: A Celebration of Music, Art, and Community in the Heart of Oxford

Oxford’s Double Decker Festival brings two days of live music, art vendors, Southern food, and family fun to the Square.

New Nightclub App is Brainchild of Ole Miss Entrepreneurs

  Two former Ole Miss roommates have come up with a new Smartphone app that lets users instantly know what's going on at any bar...

Faulkner Fox-Hunting Portrait Made From Cofield Photos

This portrait of William Faulkner is based on a photograph by my grandfather J.R. Cofield. Five oil paintings were done from the photograph. One hangs...

UM Students Attend MSF Legislative Day in Jackson

The Ole Miss chapter of Mississippi First travelled to the capitol city for the group’s second annual Legislative Day. Mississippi First is a policy activism...

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...