Southern Experience

Clarksdale Author to Publicly Debut New Book at Cutrer Mansion Ahead of Juke Joint Festival

Author Chilly Billy Howell debuts his new book at Cutrer Mansion in Clarksdale ahead of Juke Joint Festival opening night.

Longtime Public Ole Miss Golf Course Benefits from Private Support

This week, on the heels of the Ole Miss Men’s Golf team receiving its first bid to the NCAA Golf championships since 2011, the...

Curb Appeal: Mailboxes Worth Attention, Can Be Unique

A neighborhood of matching mailboxes is sometimes mandated by Home Owners Association rules. The Architectural Review Board for the HOA may state that mailboxes...

Mr. Magazine Interviews ‘Country Living’ Editor-in-Chief Rachel Barrett

“Country Living had never dipped its toes fully into the country music waters, but if that audience is going to read a shelter decorating...

UM English Instructor Tim Earley Wins Statewide Poetry Prize

University of Mississippi English instructor and former graduate student Tim Earley is among the 2015 honorees in the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters‘ awards program. The...

Mississippi Sportsman of the Month: Oxford High’s John Owen Yoste

A freshman at Oxford High School jumpstarted his summer with a wild hog kill. John Owen Yoste was visiting his cousin, Jeff Dennis, who lived...

4th Annual Tunes & Tails Returns to Powerhouse May 25

The Fourth Annual Tunes & Tails returns to the Powerhouse Monday, May 25, for a Memorial Day party in Oxford. The benefit hosted by the...

Exchange Club’s Golf, Crawfish Bash Rescheduled for June 12

The Exchange Club Family Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse of North Mississippi, Inc., has set June 12 for its second annual Golf...

Adams: How a Dime Novel led a Man to Harvard, Yale, a Rhodes Scholarship and Olympic History

In the mystical village of Lake Placid, near the skating arena where the likes of Scott Hamilton, Dorothy Hamill and Sonja Henie have skated,...

‘A Shade Tree’ by Shane Brown

The private property and no trespassing sign that use to be nailed up on the cedar tree that shades the dock are gone. So...

Oxford’s Olden Days: Faulkner’s Lifelong Hunting Companion, Sheriff Ike Roberts

Many of you may have seen a famous photograph of William Faulkner and his hunting companions. In that photograph is a large, round-faced man in...