John Cofield

COLUMN: Oxford Mourns the Loss of Angelo Mistilis

By John Cofield Special to Hotty Toddy News He was a local legend for all the Oxford generations lucky enough to have known him during his 85...

Alyssa Schnugg - February 6, 2021

JOHN COFIELD'S 'OXFORD & OLE MISS' –– RIDING WITH THE HOUNDS

Grandfather Cofield took this photo at the studio on Jackson Avenue. Mr. Faulkner commissioned five paintings from this shot. Grandaddy enlarged the photograph, and...

JOHN COFIELD'S 'OXFORD & OLE MISS' –- THE GREAT TELESCOPE

Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard was the University of Mississippi's first Chancellor. In 1856, Barnard, the former Chair of Physics and Astronomy, convinced the legislature...

JOHN COFIELD'S 'OXFORD & OLE MISS' –– DR. PORTER L. FORTUNE

Dr. Porter L. Fortune was the 21st chief executive of The University of Mississippi. Dr. Fortune received a PhD from the University of North Carolina...

JOHN COFIELD'S 'OXFORD & OLE MISS' –– GENTLE BEN

Robert Jerry "Ben" Williams was the first black football player at The University of Mississippi. A defensive lineman from 1972-1975, he thrilled fans with...

JOHN COFIELD'S 'OXFORD & OLE MISS' –– The Warehouse & Cofield's Studio

You have to be 'old' Oxford –– from the 70's and 80's, and probably a drinker –– to have a clue as to what...

JOHN COFIELD'S 'OXFORD & OLE MISS' –– SHADOWLAWN

Built by W.S. Neilson, founder of Neilson's on the Square, the Neilson-Culley-Lewis House located at 712 South 11th Street is a large wood-frame vernacular...

JOHN COFIELD'S 'OXFORD & OLE MISS' –– THE FALKNERS of OXFORD

Dean Swift Falkner, the youngest of the four Falkner brothers, was born in 1907. The family nurse, Mammy Callie, gave him his family nickname,...

JOHN COFIELD'S 'OXFORD & OLE MISS' –– JUDGE NOAH SWEAT, JR.

Noah S. "Soggy" Sweat, Jr., of Corinth, was a former judge and lawyer whose 1952 "Whiskey Speech" became a monument to political doubletalk. His...

JOHN COFIELD'S 'OXFORD & OLE MISS' –– FIDDLER'S FOLLY

The Howry-Hill-Sultan house, better known as Fiddler's Folly, located at 520 North Lamar Boulevard, Oxford, Mississippi, was built in 1878. In 1875, Charles Howry,...

JOHN COFIELD'S 'OXFORD & OLE MISS' –– The First Family of Ole Miss

A number of Mississippi families are known for their collective contributions to Ole Miss sports, but perhaps none can equal the honors and achievements...