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.

Hotty Toddy News Services - February 19, 2025

BSU Hosting Retreat for Freshmen/Transfer Students

Baptist Student Union will host retreat beginning August 30 through September 1. With the college year starting on Monday, there are a lot of new...

Oxford Troop 146 Camps at Sardis

Members of Oxford Troop 146 had a two day camp-out at Sardis Aug. 23-25, enjoying the beach, swimming, canoeing and even kitchen duty! Sardis Lake,...

Partyology Helps Prepare Oxford for Celebrations

Chris and Charlotte Dicus help customers get ready for special party events Next week marks the beginning of the college school year and the Ole...

The Heat Is On At Ole Miss

This sign in front of Leavell and Vardamen halls makes an unintended point about academic excellence at Ole Miss that goes well beyond the...

Piney Woods Digital Collection in J.D. Williams Archives

This 1923 letter seeks to raise funds for the Piney Woods Country Life School. Piney Woods was founded in 1909 to create educational and...

In Memoriam: Cowboy Jack Clement, 1931-2013

Whatever may be wrong with the world, at least it has some good things to eat. —”Cowboy” Jack Clement Country musician “Cowboy” Jack Clement, an...

August Science Cafe Focus on Lightning Flash Observations

Monthly science forum begins fall in Lusa Pastry Café's new West Jackson Avenue location OXFORD, Miss. – How lightning is created and how it gets...

Blog: Morgan Freeman: Hollywood Great & Delta Great-Great

Last week, actor Morgan Freeman came to my hometown of Cleveland to meet our new Delta State President president, Bill LaForge. A few years...

Blog: The 1840’s Before Opening the University, Part V

The Governor and members of the state legislature continued to request reports about the progress of the establishment of the University, and eventually the...

Join the FNC Tennis Center Groundbreaking Ceremony

The Oxford Park Commission invites the Lafayette-Oxford-University community to the FNC Tennis Center's groundbreaking ceremony at the John Leslie Courts. "As Oxford has grown, so...