Southern So & So

Southern So & So: How I Became “Archie”

By Robert Woolfolk Christiana, TN rwoolfolk@hotmail.com)   Shortly after I started my freshman year at Ole Miss my friends and I decided to play some touch football.  Being...

Southern So & So: “Pawn Stars” Sell Space Shuttle Seat Made in Mississippi

*Editor's note: This story was originally published in the Southern So & So (REVIA PERRIGAN, Columbus, MS. cowgirljenks@hotmail.com)   A downtown Las Vegas pawn shop, Gold and...

Southern So & So: My Turtle Pome

               (CARL W. HARDEMAN, Collierville, TN.  mymaters@yahoo.com)                   Today when I was...

Southern So & So: Solar Powered Shower

*Editor's note: This story was originally published in the Southern So & So. By M.G. "RUSS" RUSSELL Memphis, TN aspengloves@gmail.com In Thaxton, Mississippi (Pontotoc County) during the late...

Maralyn Bullion: A Look Back to Oxford’s Yesteryear Through a Letter

By Maralyn Bullion Special to Hottytoddy.com Editor's note: This article was originally published in the Southern So & So. Maralyn Bullion is a 96-year-old native Oxonian...

VIDEO: Oxford Local Maralyn Bullion Describes 1940s Ole Miss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYlhho2YilI&index=3&list=PLUmz2DowXPPYkqZC1F_suhqb0SKenrTUn&t=0s Video 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...

VIDEO: Jay Mitchell on Moving to Oxford

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRsim04jAuo Jay Mitchell is a regular contributor to The Oxford SO & SO. He is a local oral historian who grew up in Oxford. As...

Jay Mitchell: My Education on William Faulkner

By J.W. (Jay) Mitchell Coldwater, MS coldwaterjay@aol.com *This article was originally published in The Oxford SO & SO. I'm not Faulkner and I am struggling to find the...

Galloway: Faulkner's Small World

By Bettye H. Galloway Hottytoddy.com contributor Oxford in the early 1950s was not a typical small southern town. Of course, we had some lovely old homes,...

Richard Burns: The Sports Trader Remembered

By Richard Burns for hottytoddy.com oxfordsoandso@yahoo.com *The article was originally published in The Oxford SO & SO It recently came to my attention that the giant baseball card magazine,...

Gordon: Package Stores and The Black Market Tax

*This story was originally published in a 2009 "Oxford SO & SO." By Ralph Gordon Daddy liked to take a little snort from time to time,...