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Bill Rose


Bill Rose teaches depth reporting at the Meek School of Journalism & New Media. A graduate of Ole Miss, he held numerous writing and editing jobs at The Miami Herald, Palm Beach Post and Delta Democrat-Times. He and his wife Susan have lived in Oxford since 2009.

billrose@bellsouth.net

 

 

 

 

Rod Moorhead –– Art From Stone and Bronze

You’ve seen Rod Moorhead’s work all over Oxford. It’s big, it’s bronze, it’s distinctive. You can’t miss it. The giant cellist and violinist seeming to make music in front of the Gertrude Ford Center. A young James Meredith striding into history between the Lyceum and the Ole Miss library. The kindly robed figure with..

November 21, 2012
All Things Red and Blue

All Things Red and Blue

All Things Red and Blue  By Bill Rose Walk through the double glass doors leading into the house from Jim Stephens’ driveway, and you are suddenly in the middle of everything Ole Miss. The walls, the shelves, the chairs, the tables, the television; you name it, it’s Ole Miss. There are even two Christmas trees [...]

October 31, 2012

It Was A Texas Invasion

By Bill Rose The Texas invasion was nothing short of stunning. Burnt orange everywhere. Boys in full cowboy regalia. Ten-gallon hats. Longhorns mounted on car hoods. Tight-skirted, big-haired blondes every bit the match for the Ole Miss coeds whose beauty we are known to worship. So many airplanes that they had to install two rental

October 24, 2012
Experience Oxford

We want to see how you show your Ole Miss Spirit! Send us pictures to hottytoddynews@gmail.com with "Ole Miss Spirit" as the subject.

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John Hailman’s Wine Tips of the Week

Julius Caesar’s Favorite Roman Wine: Still Around?
Ancient Romans liked their wine. In Pompeii, their resort near Naples, there were more than 100 wine bars and 20 wine shops in a city of 20,000. We know this because a volcanic eruption of nearby Mount Vesuvius suddenly buried the city under nine feet of ash in A.D. 79. Many Pompeians were buried alive at their tables, and thousands of large wine jugs, or amphorae, were preserved in place. Read More

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Mississippi Deer Population

The Mississippi Department of Wildlife and Fishers estimates that 1.5 million deer live inside our state boundaries. Only Texas and Michigan support more deer than Mississippi.

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The Chickasaw –– Spartans of the Mississippi Valley

By: Jack Mayfield
Last week I wrote about the arrival of the Chickasaw Indians into this area of north Mississippi. If you will recall, there were two groups of Indians who made their way from the Northern Plains of the American Continent to the “Father of Great Waters” (later known as the Mississippi River) and then into the area that would become the states of Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama. Read More
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