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VIDEO: Jay Mitchell on Moving to Oxford
Jay Mitchell is a regular contributor to The Oxford SO & SO. He is a local oral historian who grew up in Oxford. As a child, he remembers interacting with William Faulkner.
By Mykki Newton
Newton is an Emmy and Telly Award-winning journalist/producer/director who spent 13-years as a television anchorman and reporter, 10-years as an actor and nearly a lifetime as a filmmaker. In the 1980s she studied at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and Actor’s Studio in New York.
Newton’s producing and directing credits include the documentary shorts Wrestlemania, The Oxford Eagle and the Emmy Award-winning, Learning to Fly, a two-part series about skydiving she wrote, produced and directed while an anchor/reporter at WPTY in Memphis, Tennessee. In 2012 her feature-length documentary, The Coal Shoot, the story of a Mississippi Delta community on the verge of extinction was nominated for a Peabody Award.
Mykki Newton is currently a filmmaker, film historian, and staff member at The Meek School of Journalism and New Media at The University of Mississippi.
| 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 | W, 28-10 |
| Sat, Nov 23 |  | @ Florida | L, 24-17 |
| Sat, Nov 30 |  | vs Mississippi State | W, 26-14 |
Bettye H. Galloway
September 5, 2018 at 5:24 pm
And now, Jay, you’re a movie star, too! Good job–congratulations!
Jay Mitchell
September 5, 2018 at 9:42 pm
I want to sincerely thank Dr. Norton and Mykki, I thought that they were interested in my Faulkner manuscript, I was not prepared for what happened.
When I met Dr. Norton that day, his first remark was, “Mr. Mitchell, you have lived an interesting life, haven’t you ?”
I thought that he was making reference to the fact that I had a few encounters with William Faulkner as I was growing up in Oxford. I had no idea that he wanted to hear my life story.
I can not wait to see what else I said.
Thank you Richard Burns and Dr. Ed Meek.
Bettye H. Galloway
September 7, 2018 at 7:53 am
I cannot wait to hear what you say next, either, Jay! Keep up the good work!
Mr. E.R. Locke summer cumLaurdy, Graduate Yale, (Locks & Keys)
September 7, 2018 at 10:56 pm
OK now we know how you got to Oxford, Where is the rest of this award winning story Mr. Holier than Thou ????????? YeeeeeeeHaaaaaaw
Jay Mitchell
September 28, 2018 at 1:39 pm
I do not know who, Mr. E.R. Locke is, but if this is old Richard Locke, Mayor of Alfaba—I have never ever heard anyone call you Mr.—“splan yo self”.