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

Cofield On Oxford — Our WWII Ole Miss Boys

It was getting late in World War II and Oxford and Ole Miss were intertwined in a grief that can only darken small college...

Cofield on Oxford: Six Months in ’62

Where have you gone old Oxford town, why did you have to leave us? Oxford laments its Mayberry but knows she is long gone. Faulkner...

Cofield on Oxford — On Account of Faulkner

Gone, but never forgotten he is. He was bigger than us and the aftershocks of his earth-shaking literary genius will forever reverberate down through...

Cofield on Oxford — an American in Jerusalem

"Today is the day; my youngest son, Jordan, begins his journey as a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces. There is no adequate way...

Cofield on Oxford — The Second Time Around

They weren't buying many photographs during The Great Depression. The Cofields got by on vouchers from Ole Miss and the little cash business that...

Cofield on Oxford: The Run of the Place, Part XIII

An excerpt from the previous piece in this series, THE RUN OF THE PLACE, Part XII Turning to go, postponing the comfort of riding the...

Cofield on Oxford — Do You Know It?

Rebels, we are in a special time. The Ole Miss 'here & now' is rising on the backs and standing on the shoulders of...

Cofield on Oxford — ‘Soggy’ was a Rebel

"It was a tour de force," Judge Sweat said in a 1989 interview with The Daily Corinthian newspaper. Judge Noah Spurgeon "Soggy" Sweat Jr., of...

Cofield on Oxford — Dean of the Freshman Class

Grandfather Cofield took this last photograph of Mr. James "Blind Jim" Ivy in front of the Lyceum in September, 1955, just a few weeks...

Cofield: Cold Home Concrete

With cash and a nod, I paid Sneed for the supplies and walked out the hardware store door and went left into a drizzling...