Arts & Entertainment
Crockett's Vision Led to Today's Double Decker Art Festival
In the early 80’s, Evelyn Crockett had a vision of a festival to showcase Oxford’s artist, of all stripes.
Thus after tirelessly lobbying the mayor and Board of Alderman and with much planning, the first Arts and All That Jazz Fest was held on the Square and Courthouse lawn. The festival grew and evolved into what is now a nationally known annual event in Oxford — Double Decker Arts Festival.
Visiting here on the Courthouse lawn at that first festival is Crockett with Oxford icons Edmund and Ephraim Lowe. The brothers played the Gowrie twins in MGM’s motion picture of William Faulkner’s, Intruder in the Dust. Evelyn recalls, “I was the only woman to come between the Lowe brothers!”
–John Cofield
| Sat, Aug 31 |  | vs Furman | W, 76-0 |
| Sat, Sep 7 |  | vs Middle Tennessee | W, 52-3 |
| Sat, Sep 14 |  | @ Wake Forest | W, 40-6 |
| Sat, Sep 21 |  | vs Georgia Southern | W, 52-13 |
| Sat, Sep 28 |  | vs Kentucky | L, 20-17 |
| Sat, Oct 5 |  | @ South Carolina | W, 27-3 |
| Sat, Oct 12 |  | vs LSU | L, 29-26 (2 OT) |
| Sat, Oct 26 |  | vs Oklahoma | W, 26-14 |
| Sat, Nov 2 |  | @ Arkansas | W, 63-35 |
| Sat, Nov 16 |  | vs Georgia | 2:30 PM ABC |
| Sat, Nov 23 |  | @ Florida | 11:00 AM ABC or ESPN |
| Sat, Nov 30 |  | vs Mississippi State | 2:30 PM ESPN or ABC |
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