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In this issue holiday 2013

HOLIDAY 2013

features Handmade HOLIDAYS

66 Hunting for Beauty

Photographer Joe Mac Hudspeth Jr. captures north Mississippi wildlife with patience, a little luck and a camouflaged lens. YAC ornament auction item made by Debbie Myers and photographed by joe worthem

74 Let the Games Begin

Regular game nights are all about friendship for these bunco, mahjong and bridge groups.

90 Light and Bright

A new, sun-filled house overlooking Pat Lamar Park brings the outdoors inside and is a haven for homeowners Dotsie and John Glass.

EVENTS

39 On Pointe

Holiday classic The Nutcracker runs Dec. 6-7 at the Powerhouse. Thanks to an educational trip abroad, some of the Oxford Ballet School dancers will perform with a French flourish.

26 Reading Greetings

Oxford is known as a literary town, so this holiday consider sending handmade Lafayette County Literacy Council’s book-themed cards.

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46 Busy as a Bee

It’s long gone, but fond memories remain of Georgia Moore-Isaiah’s Busy Bee Café, which fed Oxford residents for 29 years.

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Oxford Holiday Market Dexter McCluster Signing Paws for Art Fall Fun and Food Fest Rebel Rave Charity Run We Can Be Heroes Walk M-Club Reception Out of Darkness Walk Relay for Life Halloween Celebrations Trot for Togo 5K Women of Distinction Music in the Hall Anniversary Homecoming Parade P(ART)y Auction Ten Minute Play Festival Park Stevens Golf Tourney Square Jam

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Letter From the Publisher Contributors What’s Happening In Season: Spiced Cakes Pets of the Month Out and About I Am Oxford: Wayne Andrews Holiday 2013 | INVITATION OXFORD

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INVITATION Oxford PUBLISHER Rachel Malone West EDITOR Phil West DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING Cindy Semmes MANAGING EDITOR Sonia Thompson ASSOCIATE MANAGING EDITOR Emily Welly EDITORIAL DESIGN Emily R. Suber, Hallie M. Thomas STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Joe Worthem SOCIAL MEDIA & EVENTS COORDINATOR Tarah Wiley ADVERTISING CONSULTANTS Trey Alexander, Alise M. Emerson, Sheena Hagemann, Leigh Lowery, Lynn McElreath, Mary Moreton, Moni Simpson

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grew up in a tiny town across the Mississippi River. Small towns occasionally have hometown heroes who are known, admired and loved for generations. In Pocahontas, Ark., our hero was Pocahontas High School football coach Dave Williams, who served as head coach for more than 40 years and won more than 200 games and a few state championships. From small-town football legends to Santa Claus himself, holiday season is a time for reflecting on traditions and creating new ones. My mother and I have a holiday fruitcake baking tradition. Each year, just after Thanksgiving, out comes the candied fruit, mixers, nuts, flour and sugar, and it’s time to make dozens of cakes. This month, we celebrate many different parts of our community and the traditions they are creating. In this issue, you will find stories of people who share their talents, their crafts and their resources to make Oxford a wonderful place to live and learn. Some members of Oxford Ballet School visited France over the summer to learn about the food, the culture and the art of ballet. The young women who made the journey say it was a lifechanging experience. Genevieve Fortner, Oxford Ballet School owner and instructor, organized the event, and said she hopes they have begun a tradition. Plans are being made for the French dancers to visit Oxford. The Yoknapatawpha Arts Council has a long-standing tradition of local artists making Christmas ornaments that are then auctioned to benefit YAC. You can read more about this year’s ornament auction in our interview with YAC Executive Director Wayne Andrews on page 112. Meantime, hometown hero Dave Williams, 70, who was still the head coach of the Pocahontas Redskins, died recently after a battle with liver cancer. Traditions don’t last forever, but the lessons he taught for more than three generations do.

AD DESIGN Rebecca Bailey, Zach Fields, Paul Gandy CONTRIBUTORS Lena Anderson, Leslie Brooks, Meaghin Burke, Allen Butler, Melanie Crownover, Caroline Beffa Franks, Deborah Freeland, Joe Mac Hudspeth Jr., Megan Marascalco, Ann-Marie Wyatt OFFICE MANAGER Hollie Hilliard COPY EDITORS Linda Jansen, Kate Johnson DISTRIBUTION Donald Courtney, Brian Hilliard Advertising Information (662) 701-8070 ads@invitationoxford.com MAIN OFFICE (662) 234-4008 To subscribe to one year (10 issues) of Invitation Oxford, send payment of $50 to: P.O. Box 776, Oxford, MS 38655 or visit invitationoxford.com to pay online To request a photographer at your event, email Tarah at tarahmwiley@gmail.com

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Holiday contributors

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Deborah Freeland

Lena Anderson

In the mid-1970s, Deborah Freeland began taking photographs of small-town Oxford life. She chooses her subjects based not on the prettiest picture but rather on the moment in time they capture and the story they tell. One of those photographs inspired Freeland to ask others to share stories about Georgia Moore-Isaiah’s Busy Bee CafÊ for this month’s feature, Busy as a Bee.

Lena Anderson is a freelance writer who has written on topics ranging from the local craft beer scene to caning chairs the oldfashioned way. For this month’s issue, she interviewed people who play in regular game nights for the feature Let the Games Begin. “I learned that these nights aren’t about winning or competition, they’re about getting together with friends on a regular basis,� she said.

Meaghin Burke

Melanie Crownover

Meaghin Burke is (in no particular order) an intellectual property lawyer, a filmmaker and a runner. As she says, “One of the best things about Oxford is that the thriving arts community allows you to participate in a variety of activities.� Since Wayne Andrews is a vital component of the arts scene, Burke was excited to talk to him about the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council’s annual ornament auction for I Am Oxford.

North Mississippi native Melanie Crownover is staff writer for Invitation Oxford. The Mississippi University for Women graduate has written for publications in the Southeast in the past eight years while touring the region courtesy of the U.S. Army. While working on the story for this issue on photographer Joe Mac Hudspeth, Crownover said, she was impressed with how he works to make each shot perfect.

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rs. Tana Person Graham of Oxford, Miss., and Mr. Howard O’Keefe Graham of Jackson, Miss., announce the engagement of their daughter, Tana “Tan” Graham, to Will Burroughs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wayne Burroughs of Ellisville, Miss. The Southern Debutante Assembly in Greenwood, Miss., presented Tan in December 2008. She graduated from the University of Mississippi in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in applied sciences with an emphasis in hospitality management. Will graduated from the University of Mississippi in 2005 with a bachelor’s of business administration in banking and finance. He earned a master’s degree in higher education and student personnel in 2012. While at the University of Mississippi, he was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. He is pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of West Florida. A Feb. 1, 2014, wedding is planned at Oxford-University United Methodist Church in Oxford.

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r. and Mrs. David Nieuwsma announce the engagement of their daughter, Chantelle Karina of Moscow, Idaho, to Jerry Barton Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Young of Oxford. The couple will exchange vows at 3 p.m., Nov. 30 at First Presbyterian Church in Moscow. The bride-to-be is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Hendrik Vroom of Chatham, Ontario, and Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Nieuwsma of Lynden, Wash. A graduate of Logos High School in Moscow, she studied liberal arts at New Saint Andrews College and emergency medicine at Guardian College. She worked in Europe and the Middle East as an independent contractor for several years and now works as an accountant for a CPA firm in Moscow. The prospective groom is the grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Barton Bailey of Long Beach, Miss., and Oxford and the late Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie W. Young of Oxford. After graduating from Tara High School in Baton Rouge, La., he received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and a master of theology from Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas. He is a chaplain in the U.S. Army. After a deployment in Iraq, he is stationed in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The couple will make their home in Germany. Holiday 2013 | INVITATION OXFORD

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PHOTOGRAPHy by renee reedy

enna Joe Rose Davis and Samuel Avent Cooper were united in marriage at half past six on the evening of Aug. 3, 2013, at North Oxford Baptist Church in Oxford, Miss. The ceremony was officiated by the Rev. Rick Blythe. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Strawn Davis of New Albany, Miss. She is the granddaughter of Mrs. Ottis Davis of New Albany, the late Mr. Joe Strawn Davis, Mrs. Anne Garrett of New Albany, and the late Mr. John Lewis Garrett. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lynn Cooper. He is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Avent of Michie, Tenn., and the late Mr. and Mrs. Warren Cooper of New Albany. Escorted by her father, the bride wore an ivory vintage-inspired lace and Dolce satin gown with a chapel-length train and sweetheart neckline. To accent her gown, she wore a scalloped lace veil and estate diamond and sapphire earrings. Knowing his bride’s love of pearls and estate jewelry, the groom converted an estate filigree bar pin into a bracelet by adding a string of pearls for his wedding gift to her. The bride’s friend Mr. Hubert Lynn Foley gave her a sixpence coin that was minted the year her father was born to wear in her shoe. She carried a hand-tied bouquet of Virginia roses and white hydrangeas. Katelyn Johnston was the maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Chelsea Davis, Jennifer Davis, Jordan Dunnam, Briley Elliott, Ashley Ferguson, Mary Katherine Kerce, Katie Kaiser, Brooklee Lightsey, Mary Alden Mills, Kassie Plummer and Ashton Walters. The bridesmaids wore floor-length blush dresses and carried bouquets of green and pink hydrangeas. To complement their dresses, the bridesmaids wore pink pearl earrings. Chuck Cooper, father of the groom, was the best man. Groomsmen were Van Cooper, Ray Cooper, Jack Cooper, Jeremy Davis, Justin Davis, Chance Fair, William Frierson, Jeff Hamm, Luke Lawrence, Jonathan Lindsey and Cameron Thomas. The bride’s aunt Martha Venable directed the wedding. Organist Martha Francis Monroe and pianist Donna Kay Sizemore, and singers Jordan, Olivia and Randy Dunnam and Tonya Herron, provided music for the ceremony. Dawn Carson and Katie Davis read scripture. Isabella Davis and Ann Luckett Montgomery served as flower girls. Floral arrangements adorning the church and reception consisted of Virginia and Anna roses, hydrangeas, bells of Ireland, snapdragons and calla lilies and were created by Diane Tate. Wedding photography was provided by Renee Reedy Photography. Following the ceremony, guests enjoyed a reception at the Powerhouse, which was directed by Diane Tate. Soule Band provided music and Maia Miller Catering supplied a spread of Southern food. Guests were given a jar of Cooper’s Homemade BBQ sauce as a thank-you gift from the bride and groom. The groom’s parents honored the couple on the eve of their wedding with a rehearsal dinner at the University Club of Oxford. Following a honeymoon on the island of Maui, Hawaii, the couple resides in New Albany.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING December 2013-January 2014 A sampling of important, fun and interesting events in our area. For more, visit facebook.com/invitationoxford.

Fundraisers

holiday happenings

December 3

December 2

December 13-15

The annual show, sponsored by Oxford High School’s Future Educators Association, features Oxford School District teachers showcasing their talents and benefits FEA. Tickets $5. 5 p.m., Oxford High School Auditorium Contact Roxanne Wright at 662-234-1562 or rwright@oxfordsd.org.

Oxford’s annual Christmas parade featuring the University of Mississippi marching band and festive holiday floats. 6:30 p.m., Courthouse Square

Theatre Oxford Presents a comedic play about small-town Southern life and attitudes. The Powerhouse theatreoxford.com

December 6-7

December 13-15

December 5

Oxford Ballet’s The Nutcracker and A Christmas Carol Ballets

OSD Teacher Talent Show

Square Toast for Scholarships A walking food and wine tasting, presented by the Ole Miss Department of Nutrition and Hospitality Management, that is spread across restaurants and retail businesses on the Oxford Square. Benefits the Ole Miss Department of Nutrition and Hospitality Management. Tickets $50. 5-9 p.m., the Square

December 6

Thacker Mountain Radio Membership Holiday Party

Party includes food by chef John Currence, signature cocktails by Snackbar’s Jayce McConnell, music by the Yalobushwhackers and a silent auction to benefit Thacker Mountain Radio. Holiday attire. Entrance is free for members, $75 partner membership, $50 individual membership or $20 student membership. 6-9 p.m., Southside Gallery

December 14 Rebel Resale

Ole Miss Athletics sells unworn polos, hats, warmups, shoes, footballs, jackets, jerseys, cleats and more. Benefits Ole Miss Athletics teams. Time TBA, the Manning Center

Oxford Christmas Parade

An abridged version of two Christmas classics presented by Oxford Ballet School. 6:30 p.m. Dec. 6; 2 p.m. Dec. 7 The Powerhouse

December 10

Chamber of Commerce Christmas Party Oxford-Lafayette County Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Foundation’s Christmas Party. 5-7 p.m., the Powerhouse

December 10-20

Gingerbread Village

A Tuna Christmas

Holiday Arts Market The market, co-sponsored by the Oxford Artists Guild and Yokonapatawpha Arts Council, features artwork and handmade holiday gifts. The Powerhouse

December 15 The Nutcracker

The full Christmas ballet, presented by Dance Alive National Ballet. 7 p.m., the Ford Center

December 15

Cedar Oaks Christmas Open House Join the Cedar Oaks Guild at the historic Cedar Oaks Mansion for refreshments and holiday music. 3-6 p.m., Cedar Oaks

Visit a village made of gingerbread or try to construct your own to display. The Gingerbread Village supports local food banks, and visitors are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to donate. 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri., Ford Center fordcenter.org/gingerbread-village-information

December 12

YAC Ornament Auction The Yoknapatawpha Arts Council presents its annual holiday ornament auction, which features ornaments handmade by local artists to benefit YAC. 7-10 p.m., the Powerhouse

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A sampling of important, fun and interesting events in our area. For more, visit facebook.com/invitationoxford.

Music December 4

Grace Notes Concert and Luncheon The University of Mississippi Department of Music student showcase. noon, First Presbyterian Church

December 6

Holiday Choral Concert Featuring the University of Mississippi choirs. 7:30 p.m., the Ford Center Ole Miss Program Coordinator Ryan Vreeland, 662-915-2036

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An Oxford Christmas Presented by the First Baptist Church of Oxford Celebration Choir and Orchestra. 7 p.m. Dec. 7; 2:30 p.m. Dec. 8 the Ford Center

December 8

Grace Notes Concert Series A Festival of Lessons and Carols with the Chancel Choir; Joseph W. Garrison, director of music and organist; Stacy Rodgers and Diane Wang, piano; Susan Gaston, cello. 6 p.m., First Presbyterian Church

December 11

Grace Notes Concert and Luncheon Featuring Jos Milton, tenor, and Amanda Johnston, piano. noon, First Presbyterian Church

Art and Literature

Rebel Sports

December 3

December 4

A drop-in workshop for toddlers and a parent or guardian. $5 per family. 3:45-4:30 p.m., University Museum

11 a.m., Tad Smith Coliseum

December 5

Ole Miss women’s basketball vs. Mississippi Valley State

Mini Masters: Letters and Numbers; Art of Jasper Johns

Ann Patchett Book Signing

Ole Miss women’s basketball vs. Louisiana Tech

December 7

Ann Patchett reads from and signs her new book, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage, essays previously published in The Atlantic, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, and the Washington Post. 5 p.m., Off Square Books

noon, Tad Smith Coliseum

December 7

December 14

Santa’s Workshop Family Activity Day Families can create seasonal crafts and contribute a gingerbread house for the Ford Center’s annual Gingerbread House Village. Free for University Museum members and $5 for nonmembers. 10 a.m.-noon, University Museum

December 18

Artist Lecture: The Wellspring: Works by Hamlett Dobbins The Wellspring gathers a handful of paintings that draw specifically from Hamlett Dobbins’ relationships with his two children. University Museum

December 8

Ole Miss men’s basketball vs. Oregon 4 p.m., Tad Smith Coliseum

Ole Miss men’s basketball vs. Middle Tennessee State 4 p.m., Tad Smith Coliseum

December 18

Ole Miss men’s basketball vs. Louisiana-Monroe 6 p.m., Tad Smith Coliseum

December 22

Ole Miss men’s basketball vs. Mercer 3 p.m., Tad Smith Coliseum

December 30

December 18

Grace Notes Concert and Luncheon

Ole Miss women’s basketball vs. Austin Peay

Featuring Mary Donnelly-Haskell, Mary Lane Haskell and Andrew Fox, piano. noon, First Presbyterian Church

6 p.m., Tad Smith Coliseum

January 2

Ole Miss women’s basketball vs. Missouri 6 p.m., Tad Smith Coliseum

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Clockwise from top left, artwork by Anne Elizabeth Pittman, Alexis Hemphill, Charli Kendricks and Calendula Cheng, all eighth graders, Oxford Middle School.

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Oxford is known as a literary town, so consider sending bookthemed holiday cards this year. The Lafayette County Literacy Council invited students from grades pre-K-12 to design greeting cards that promote reading or are about their favorite books. Purchase the winning designs, shown here, in four-packs for $10 to benefit the Literacy Council’s programs. Visit lafayetteliteracy. org to buy the cards online.

Above, artwork by Chloe Childress, kindergartner, Lafayette Elementary School. Left, artwork by Alex Garnett, kindergartner, Oxford University School.

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events Oxford Holiday Market View more event photos @ facebook.com/invitationoxford.

The Oxford Holiday Market was held Nov. 1 at the Oxford Conference Center where vendors sold holiday gift items. The event included photos with Santa Claus. Ticket sales for the preview party benefited the Oxford-Lafayette Humane Society.

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Steven, Jake and Zack Mena

Nita Morris and Gail Miller

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Christle Carpenter and Kaitlyn Davis

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Jimmy and Barbie Cheatham

Whitney Bright with Megan and Kim Stroud

Holly, Nicole and Gay Eubanks with Chasity Logsdon

Matthew and Hope Guthrie

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events Dexter McCluster Meet and Greet View more event photos @ facebook.com/invitationoxford.

Former Rebel Dexter McCluster, who plays football for the Kansas City Chiefs, greeted fans Nov. 9 at Rebel Rags. McCluster and the Chiefs won nine games before losing to Denver Nov. 17, enjoying one of their best seasons in history.

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The Paws for Art charity art auction was held Nov. 7 at the Oxford Conference Center. The event included silent and live art auctions and music. The event benefited the Oxford-Lafayette Humane Society.

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events Good Food for Oxford Schools Fall Fun and Food Fest View more event photos @ facebook.com/invitationoxford.

Good Food for Oxford Schools, GO Orthodontics and dentists Hayden Perkins and Michael Perry held Fall Fun and Food Fest with face painting, games and a candy exchange benefiting Operation Gratitude Nov. 1 at Children’s Dental Center.

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Melody and Paxton Sharp

Julia Jones and Caroline Rohde-Moe

Connor, Jamie and Keeton Adams

Kylan, Jerimia and Alexis Lawson

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events Good Food for Oxford Schools Fall Fun and Food Fest View more event photos @ facebook.com/invitationoxford.

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On Pointe Holiday classic The Nutcracker runs Dec. 6-7. Some of the Oxford Ballet School dancers will perform with a French flourish this year.

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allet has decidedly French roots even though holiday classic The Nutcracker was composed by Russian-born Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Over the summer, 16 girls who dance with Oxford Ballet School explored that connection with a weeklong ballet trip to France. Many of those students will perform an abridged version of The Nutcracker at the Powerhouse Dec. 6-7. Oxford Ballet School founder and director Genevieve Fortner, who organized the trip, said she believes the experience her students had in France will translate into a meaningful show. “I think there’s a level of excitement going

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into this performance,” Fortner said. “They’re ready to tackle whatever choreography is given. A lot of them have taken that inspiration back home with them, and I see the difference in the ballet classes here. They want to work hard. I see a little more of a spark. It’s wonderful.” The trip was something that Fortner, who is French, had been planning for many years. “France and ballet are my passion, so to combine the two and share that with my students was something I’d been wanting to do for a long time,” she said. Fortner organized a three-day workshop for her students and students of her aunt, who owns a dance studio in Saint Malo, France. Fortner said the dancers worked well together.

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Oxford Ballet School students perform The Nutcracker. Students will perform an abridged version of the ballet Dec. 6-7.

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“France and ballet are my passion, so to combine the two and share that with my students was something I’d been wanting to do for a long time.” – Genevieve Fortner

Top, Oxford Ballet School students, as well as students from the Yuma, Ariz., Classical Ballet School (who traveled to France with Fortner’s group), pose in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles. Left, Sallie Hardy and Caroline Hodge practice ballet positions in Claude Monet’s Giverny garden. Right, Jena Brown, Caroline Hodge, Sallie Hardy and Anne Allen Hodge enjoy the Palais Garnier in Paris before attending the Paris Opera Ballet’s performance of La Sylphide.

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“There was a language barrier, but ballet vocabulary is French, so the girls didn’t feel lost even though they were in a foreign country,” she said. Fortner’s hope is that her aunt’s students will visit Oxford this summer and that the exchange program will become an annual tradition. Oxford Ballet School student Anne Allen Hodge said she would be excited to return to France. “We sometimes have overnight trips, but the furthest is Jackson,” Hodge said. “This was a pretty epic sleepover.”

Support Oxford Ballet School Due to funding cuts, Oxford Ballet School will present an abridged version of The Nutcracker this year. Visit oxfordballetschool.com for information about how to donate to Oxford Ballet Association, the nonprofit that supports Oxford Ballet School. Full performances of The Nutcracker are Dec. 7 by the Tupelo Ballet at the Tupelo High School Performing Arts Center, Dec. 7-8 by Ballet Mississippi at Thalia Mara Hall in Jackson, Dec. 15 by the Dance Alive National Ballet at the Ford Center in Oxford and Dec. 1315 by Ballet Memphis at the Orpheum Theater in Memphis.

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It’s long gone, but fond memories remain of Georgia Moore-Isaiah’s Busy Bee Café. story and photos by Deborah J. Freeland

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Christmas Eve, 1971, when most of the businesses on the Oxford Square had already closed, Georgia Moore-Isaiah opened her new café for the first time. The weather was predicted to hit a low of 34 degrees that night, but inside the café it would have been warm and filled with the smell of Southern cooking. She christened her little restaurant Isaiah’s Busy Bee, named for a vintage coin bank in the shape of a bumblebee that was sentimental to her. The little bee bank would sit on her café counter for the next 29 years. Georgia was born in Lafayette County on Feb. 7, 1920, the only child of Katie Stokes and Rufus Moore. Growing up, she spent much of her time in the kitchen with her mother and grandmother. Time-honored recipes were passed from mother to daughter as they prepared meals together. Steps were memorized, and ingredients were measured by a dash of this or a pinch of that. In 1953, Georgia began working for the University of Mississippi as the head cook for Chancellor J.D. Williams and later for Chancellor Porter Fortune. When she opened her café, her reputation as a celebrated cook was well established. Her daughter-in-law, Annie Ruth Isaiah, explained, “After many years of working for the university, she just wanted her own business. She didn’t have a big family but she just loved to cook. She decided to open up a restaurant so she could serve people the good things she made.” Still, for nine years after she opened the Busy Bee, she worked both jobs, continuing to cook for Chancellor Fortune. She retired from the university in 1982. Georgia worked long hours, but she didn’t do it alone. Her husband, Willie Isaiah, helped construct the building, and Annie Ruth waited tables. The Isaiah family lived in a separate house

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on the same property. It was located on a hill near where Kroger is today. In the 1970s the location was considered to be the outskirts of town. The nearest neighbor was WSUH radio station, 1420 on the radio dial. The café was reminiscent of small houses common in the Mississippi Delta. It had one main room with a modest porch on the front and an efficient kitchen on the back. A hand-painted wooden sign was nailed to the gable. From the gravel driveway, two steps led to the porch. A generous pecan tree shaded the porch and the regulars who liked to linger there in the summer. A screened door would snap closed behind customers as they entered. Inside, there was a cozy dining area furnished with just a few small wooden tables and red-bottom chairs. Only 10-15 people could be seated at one time. None of the décor matched. The dinner plates and silverware consisted of a varied collection of vintage pieces. There was no air-conditioning. The screened windows were left open all summer, and a light breeze blew through the tiny dining area. Eating dinner at the Busy Bee was like eating on a screened porch. The Bee was open Monday through Thursday and some Fridays from 4-7 p.m. Hungry latecomers could still get dinner if there was any food left. Georgia served a Southern dinner and dessert for the fixed price of $5.75. She fixed a little something special for young children. She never

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had a printed menu. Whatever she decided to cook that day was what she served. She began planning the evening meals early in the morning, finishing most of her preparation by 1 p.m. That night’s dinner was then written on a chalkboard behind the counter. Customer Jack Case Wilson remembers the Busy Bee in 1972. “I had been to a reception at the Chancellor’s House, where I was told that Georgia Isaiah, the chancellor’s head cook, had opened a small restaurant out at what was then the edge of town,” he said. “Driving up a peach-colored clay-and-gravel drive, I could see several people waiting on the porch. When my turn came, I sat down at a wonderful old table and was given a glass of sweet tea with a fresh sprig of mint. I felt like I was home in the Delta with crispy fried chicken, freshly picked and cooked vegetables and some chess pie.” Georgia kept a guest book that was signed by her many customers, including students and well-known university faculty. Bill and Sheryl Gregg, students at Ole Miss in 1977, said they chose the Busy Bee for their rehearsal dinner “because of the great food, the total lack of pretense and the homey ambience.” “My non-Southern parents were at first taken aback by the appearance of the place,” Sheryl said. “But they were won over by the food and the cook.”

The Busy Bee was famously good. Annie Ruth, who greeted customers, described a typical evening at the Busy Bee. “When I came to work, I could smell bakery and goodies,” she said. “As customers came in, I could see big smiles on their faces. She [Georgia] was jolly to see them too. Everybody would ask for the mint tea. They always left with a smile and seemed very happy with the meal. She did serve plenty, and you could have seconds if you wanted.” The café began gradually closing in the late 1990s, officially shutting down in 2000, and Georgia died in 2004. But warm memories of both remain. “I returned many times to the Busy Bee, sometimes alone, then later with friends,” Wilson said. “I don’t recall the interior or exterior ever changing, nor did the food, which was always served with fresh mint tea and a lot of love. After a great dinner I had to walk over to the kitchen door and tell Mrs. Isaiah how wonderful the meal was. As she turned from the stove, she smiled and thanked me, for it seemed to really please her that her hard work was appreciated. Someone like Georgia Isaiah is unforgettable.” See the In Season column on page 52 for some of Georgia’s favorite holiday recipes. Opposite, some of Georgia Moore-Isaiah’s treasured recipes, now in the care of her daughterin-law, Annie Ruth Isaiah. Above, the Busy Bee was named for this vintage coin bank, which sat on the café’s counter for 29 years. Holiday 2013 | INVITATION OXFORD

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ry baking a spiced bread for a twist on the more traditional holiday fruitcake this season. Spiced breads and coffee cakes make easy and delicious holiday gifts. Bake them in advance and freeze; then give to friends and neighbors just before their families come home for the holidays. Georgia Moore-Isaiah, who opened the doors to her Busy Bee Café on Christmas Eve, 1971, liked to bake cinnamon bread and coffee cake as gifts for her regular customers during the holiday season. Georgia died in 2004, but her daughter-in-law, Annie Ruth Isaiah, shared two of her old recipes with Invitation Oxford. (See story on the Busy Bee Café on page 46).

Georgia Moore-Isaiah’s Easy Coffee Cake 2 teaspoons cinnamon 2 cups flour 1 cup brown sugar ½ teaspoon nutmeg ½ cup white sugar ¼ teaspoon salt ¾ cup salad oil 1 cup buttermilk 1 egg 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking power ½ cup chopped nuts Preheat oven to 350°F. Mix 1 teaspoon cinnamon with flour, brown sugar, nutmeg, white sugar, salt and salad oil. Reserve 3 Table spoons of the mixture for topping. Add butter milk, egg, baking soda and baking powder, and beat until smooth. Add nuts. Pour into greased 9x13 inch pan. Add remaining cinnamon to reserved topping and sprinkle topping on cake batter. Bake for 20 minutes at 350°F.

Georgia Moore-Isaiah’s Cinnamon Spiced Bread 1 package yeast, compressed or dry ¼ cup lukewarm water ½ cup milk ¼ cup sugar 1 teaspoon salt 2 Tablespoons shortening 1 egg ½ teaspoon grated lemon rind (if desired) 2½ cups sifted flour ½ teaspoon melted butter or margarine ½ cup sugar mixed with cinnamon Handful of chopped nuts (for topping)

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events Rebel Rave Charity Run View more event photos @ facebook.com/invitationoxford.

The Rebel Rave 5K charity run was held Oct. 30 on the University of Mississippi campus and benefited the OxfordLafayette Humane Society and Leap Frog tutoring program. The run benefits different local charities each year.

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events We Can Be Heroes Walk for Diabetes View more event photos @ facebook.com/invitationoxford.

The We Can Be Heroes Walk for Diabetes was held Nov. 3 at the University of Mississippi. The event benefited the Diabetes Foundation of Mississippi, which provides assistance for Mississippians living with diabetes.

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events M-Club Hall of Fame Reception View more event photos @ facebook.com/invitationoxford.

The University of Mississippi M-Club Association held a reception Oct. 18 at the Inn at Ole Miss for its new Hall of Fame inductees. The 2013 class includes Art Bressler (football), Joe Harvell (basketball), Stacy Hudson-Rich (track and field), Pascale Piquemal (women’s tennis) and Stan Torgerson (the “Voice of the Rebels” for 17 years).

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Hunting for By Melanie Crownover Photographed by Joe Mac Hudspeth Jr.

Wildlife photographer Joe Mac Hudspeth Jr. captures north Mississippi creatures and landscape with a lot of patience, a little luck and a camouflaged lens.

Many Mississippians look forward to the winter months and the start of hunting season. Wildlife photographer Joe Mac Hudspeth Jr. is one of those people, except he prefers to shoot duck, dove, geese and other waterfowl with a camera rather than a rifle. Hudspeth, an Oxford native who now lives near Brandon, Miss., has spent the last 30 years peeking out from behind homemade camouflaged contraptions with his camera to capture animals in their natural habitats. When he was first starting out, he would rise early on weekdays to get in a couple of hours of photography time before 8:30 a.m., when he would report to his day job in the trucking industry. His obsession with documenting wildlife started with carrying a Kodak Extralite 10 around his neck during hunting trips to his family’s Benton County deer camp as a youngster. The amateur snapshots Hudspeth took and pasted into his scrapbook inspired him to look closer at the living world around him. Holiday 2013 | INVITATION OXFORD

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Joe Mac Hudspeth’s subjects range from fawns to a green heron and mallards, and his photography has graced Mississippi Duck Stamps and sporting licenses. He photographs wildlife only in its natural habitat, which means he has to be both creative and patient in order to get the shot he wants.

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Today, his photos are crisp, clear and beautiful, but it took years of practice and trial and error. “I saved my money in college to get an automatic camera with a lens, but I put it on auto and did everything wrong, so I put it up in a closet in the box after two years,â€? he said. “Later, my fiancĂŠe got me a telefocusing lens, and I got a book on photography and stopped chasing after animals that could outrun me.â€? The developing photographer shot countless rolls of film filled with turkeys, turtles, butterflies and ducks in the following years to improve his work. In 1987, Hudspeth reveled in his first published photo, an image of a tree frog that ran in Mississippi Outdoors magazine. It led to more than 1,000 of his photos running in local and regional publications, including Ducks Unlimited and Nature Conservancy calendars. Unlike most of his professional contemporaries, Hudspeth passed on the tamer animals at the national parks for the true wild subjects hiding in the state and federal refuges of Mississippi and the backwoods private properties he’d hunted most of his life. He finally worked up to a better-quality lens to focus on wood ducks in the mid-’90s. But it takes more than a fancy camera and knowledge of the landscape to catch some subjects in their natural habitats. “Contrary to popular belief, you can’t just walk up to them and snap a photo just because you don’t have a gun,â€? Hudspeth said. “Working with nature is nothing like posing a model a certain way and saying, ‘Hold it right there’ until you are sure you have the perfect shot. You’re at their mercy for however long it takes, and I had to find a way to be less than 20 feet from my subjects without them spooking.â€? Hudspeth remedied the problem by experimenting. The result was a makeshift floating duck blind made of PVC pipe that an upholstery shop covered in Mossy Oak material for him. It allowed him to be waist-deep in cypress swamps with his camera propped up and dry until he got the shot he wanted. The lifelike photographs earned Hudspeth a place of honor as the photographer for Duck Stamps in 1997, the same year his

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Above, Hudspeth’s new book, My Southern Wild, will be released in early 2014. Left a purple Gallinule. Right, a sunset in Wilkinson County.

varied wildlife shots became the face of the state sporting license and car tag. The sporting license celebrates its 18th edition this year, and Hudspeth still offers signed and numbered collector prints. But for all the acclaim, Hudspeth still attributes his biggest break to his mother’s Oxford garden club. After Hudspeth presented a slide show to the club during a meeting at the University Museum, the curator asked him to do a gallery show. Three years later, the show turned into a rotating show among the Eudora Welty Museum, New Stage Theatre and Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, which drew the attention of University Press of Mississippi. The publisher released Hudspeth’s first book, In the Southern Wild, in 2003. Hudspeth then released Return to the Southern Wild, his follow-up photo book, in 2011, and his third book, My Southern Wild, is due out in early 2014. But he may not be finished photographing and publishing yet. “There are still places along the Mississippi River, the Delta, the Pascagoula River, the Coast, the barrier islands and the rocky bluffs of Northeast Mississippi I haven’t seen,” he said.

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Begin By Lena Anderson Photographed by Joe Worthem

Game nights are about more than getting a blitz, rolling three of a kind, building sets or even bragging rights. For these mahjong, bridge and bunco group members,

it’s all about friendship.

Oxford may not have a glitzy strip, slot machines or blackjack tables, but it does boast several groups of gamers committed to playing regular hands of cards or dice. While the stakes may be a little lower than in Las Vegas, the enjoyment levels are just as high. Taylor residents Alice Hammell, Jeepsie Smith and Kay Croom gather almost every afternoon to play mahjong, a game similar to gin rummy that is played with 144 tiles instead of cards. There are as many variations of the game as there are ways to spell it, but Hammell and her friends play by the rules of the American National Mah Jongg League. The object of the game is to build sets and create a hand listed under one of the categories on the card. In order to do this, each player selects and discards tiles until an entire set of combinations has been made. Hammell, Smith and Croom said they were drawn to mahjong because of the game’s flexibility.

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“The true appeal to it is it’s competitive but not cutthroat,” Hammell said. “We don’t have partners. You can stop in and out, come and go as you please. Or at least that’s how we play it here.” They hold their games inside Taylor antiques store Tin Pan Alley, which Hammell owns. The location is more than convenient; it’s part of an ancient tradition. Legend has it that Chinese philosopher Confucius developed mahjong in 500 B.C., and it has evolved into a game that today is often played inside Chinese shops by storeowners and their friends. Hammell and her friends put their game on hold when the phone rings or a customer walks in. Often they ask curious shoppers to join, eager to teach those who don’t know how to play. Everyone is welcome. “When you get to play a hand with someone, you get to know that person a lot better than you would if you were just having a conversation with them,” Hammell said.

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The mahjong group includes eight women from Taylor, Oxford and surrounding towns. The members have been playing together for two years. The idea to play came from Smith, whose son brought her a mahjong set from China, where he had served in the Peace Corps. Smith, a former Gulfport, Miss., resident, lost the set in Hurricane Katrina, but she never lost the desire to learn to play. When she relocated to Taylor and met friends who knew the game, she decided it was time. The group attends regional tournaments and hosts one in Taylor each fall that includes more than 50 participants. The women don’t take the competition too seriously. Last year they invited a friend who had never played the game before to a tournament in Birmingham, Ala. They taught her to play on the drive. While the game may be easy to learn, the women believe it has depth. There is some strategy involved.

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“Mahjong is a lot like real life, and you can tell a lot about a person by how they play,” Smith said. “There’s always the rebel who takes chances, and the predictable one who does the same thing over and over. But you just have to play the hand you’re dealt.” Playing the hand you’re dealt is a little more difficult in the complicated card game of bridge, which at its most basic level is a tricktaking game that uses a standard 52-card deck and is played by four players in two competing partnerships. The rules are many and can be difficult to master, which is why having a regular group where everyone knows how to play is ideal. Members of the co-ed Oxford Newcomers Bridge Club have been meeting in the activity center at Oxford-University United Methodist Church twice a month for regular bridge games for 10 years. The second and fourth Tuesdays of the month bring the 12-16 group members

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together for “fun, not serious” cards. After every four hands, they sit with new people so everyone has a chance to play together. Light refreshments are provided by a rotating host, and community announcements are made. Mary Poole, chairperson for the Oxford Newcomer’s Bridge Club, describes the group as very laid-back. “Everyone is welcome,” she said. “This is such a great social outlet for people of our community.” Ken Pfister and his wife, Sandy, have been playing in the group for seven years. “I was in the U.S. Navy, and being a sailor, you learned to play cards,” Pfister said. “This is a good place for folks like me to spend time.” Like the Pfisters, Casey Cockrell Stuart understands the benefits of catching up with friends regularly. Her bunco group, which is made up of a mix of her friends and her mother’s friends, has been meeting monthly for the last five years.

The group members admit their game nights have a little more to do with socializing than playing bunco. The game is played with three dice and based solely on luck. There are many different versions, but the basic premise is that six rounds are played, progressing in order from one to six, where the number of the round serves as the target for that round’s rolls. Within a round, players alternate turns rolling three dice, aiming for the target number. Players gain one point for each die matching the target. If the player gets three of a kind of the target number (a bunco), then she gets 21 points. The round stops when a player at a head table gets 21 points. Whoever wins the most rounds is the overall winner. “Bunco is an easy game to pick up on, so you can talk and play and not think about it too much,” Stuart said. “It’s not uncommon for someone to get ready to roll [the dice] but hold them and say, ‘Oh so, did you hear about...?’

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The Girl Scouts Heart of the South hosted the Women of Distinction Luncheon Nov. 6 at First Baptist Church. Nominations were based on leadership, community contributions and professional accomplishments.

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Dotsie and John Glass love the light that floods in through the large living and dining room windows.

or Dotsie and John Glass, Oxford is a haven. The couple recently built their dream retirement house, tucked away behind Pat Lamar Park. For now, they split time between Oxford and Memphis, spending as many long weekends in Oxford as they can. Most of those weekends, John can be found unwinding on the expansive screened

porch with his beagle, Oxford, in his lap. “This is like heaven,” John said. “Every time I cross the Mississippi line, I start relaxing. I’m all tensed up till I get there, and when I hit that line, I just relax.” From their favorite spots on the screened porch, John and Dotsie can see Lake Patsy through the trees. “I think what attracted us to the house,

other than the floor plan, is the magnificent view,” Dotsie said. “We can see that little lake, and there’ll never be anything in front of us because it’s the park.” The house purposefully overlooks expansive green and wooded spaces and blends with nature, which is exactly what architect Billie Brian had in mind when she found the lot. The Baton Rouge, La.-based Brian is a disciple of Holiday 2013 | INVITATION OXFORD

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the famous Louisiana architect A. Hays Town, and she wanted to give the Glasses a house with a similar French West Indies feel. “The whole house is really centered around the screened porch,” Brian said. Other features include tall windows, fulllength shutters and reclaimed materials used for details like the pine floors, cypress doors and interior brick archway. Since they entertain a lot, it was important to Dotsie for the house to be welcoming, and she, along with Brian, focused their attention on every detail. “I wish you could have seen us,” Dotsie said, laughing. “One day, Billie and I and the two floor guys were down here on the floor trying to make sure we got the color exactly right. It couldn’t be just a regular stain; I wanted a warm, honey color.” While the home’s architecture has a Brian flair, the lighting is decidedly Dotsie. Her family owns Graham’s Lighting, a longtime Memphisbased company, and the fixtures throughout the house all came from Graham’s. “My Daddy opened Graham’s in 1957,” Dotsie said. “All of our lighting is handmade. It maintains the integrity of the house.” Some of her favorite fixtures include the grand entrance and dining room lanterns, which help illuminate the couple’s sizable art collection, most of which is by Mississippi artists. Over the years, the couple have invested in several paintings by Dsay Anderson, William Dunlap and Pryor Graber; plates made by Lisa Chudy Dyess; and many pieces of McCarty and Peter’s pottery. Some of their more whimsical artwork includes handmade copper flags

by Ben Caldwell and a sculpture by the artist known as Poor Julia made from an old air tank, a tractor seat and a soup pot welded together. The house doubles as gallery space for their collection, so much so that they considered it a happy accident when the brick archway that divides the living room and entryway didn’t end up extending as far as was drawn in the original plans. “We just figured it would leave us more room for our art,” Dotsie said. She added that in addition to buying Mississippi art, they also wanted to use as many local people as they could during

construction. On that list is ironwork by Jeff Daniels and landscape design by Todd Garner. Oxford builder Bruce Massey oversaw the home’s construction, and his work on the Glasses’ house recently won first place in the Mississippi Home Builders Association’s Best in Mississippi Building and Remodeling Awards. But for all the accolades and architectural details, the couple said what they love best is having friends over to watch football and how warm and inviting the finished product feels. “The flow and the openness are great to me,” Dotsie said. “I just love how it all turned out.”

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events Music in the Hall Fifth-Anniversary Party View more event photos @ facebook.com/invitationoxford.

Live music series Music in the Hall celebrated its fifth anniversary Nov. 6 with a party at the Lyric. The event featured video of recorded shows and live performances by the Red Thangs, Julie Lee, Hinge Dance Company and Rocket 88.

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Brittany and Annie Zeleskey

Kevin Felker, Connie Braseth, Clay Cavett and Beth Blaha

Tim Hebert and Andree Walker

Julie Lee, Daniel Morrow and Sarah Masen

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events Ole Miss Homecoming Parade View more event photos @ facebook.com/invitationoxford.

The University of Mississippi homecoming parade was held Oct. 25. The parade began at the Grove and ended at the Square with a pep rally featuring the cheerleaders, Rebelettes and Pride of the South marching band.

Katherine and Jennifer Goates Neal

Madison Portie, DeeAnn Williams, Fritz Valerio and Erin Peebles

Natasha Lewis, Joshua Tucker and Natalie Lewis

Dana and Will Jefferies

Robbie Steder, Betsy Griffith, Beverly Griffin and Linda Steeler

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Merrill Lamar, Emma Reed Farese and Katie Parker

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events P(ART)y Auction

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The University of Mississippi Art Department on Nov. 7 auctioned artwork produced by students, faculty and alumni at the Powerhouse to benefit the department’s gallery and visiting artist programs.

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Kristiana Chenier, Clara Kinney and Rachel Peters

Tina Lutz, Jake Weigel and Eunika Rogers

Chancellor Dan and Lydia Jones

Jennifer and Benny Melton

Jordan Leavitt and Desiree Kapler

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events Ten Minute Play Festival View more event photos @ facebook.com/invitationoxford.

Theatre Oxford held its annual Ten Minute Play Festival Oct. 24-27 at the Powerhouse. The next Theatre Oxford production is the performance of A Tuna Christmas, which runs Dec. 1315 at the Powerhouse.

Kat and Bettie Childress with Charles Low and Susan Alford

Beth Andrews and Carol Strider

Janet Watkins and Wesley Dickens

Donna Levine and Richard Gershon

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events Park Stevens Memorial Golf Tournament

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The Park Stevens Memorial Scholarship Fund Drive for 75 Golf Tournament was held Oct. 25 on the University of Mississippi Golf Course. Stevens, who wore number 75 on the Ole Miss football team, was killed in a car accident in July.

Brian Roach, Dave Smith, Teddy Tidwell and Kirk Johnston

Lawson Graves, John Brewington, Steve Wilson and Robby Pierce

Robert Luke, Stan Pielak, Dan Luke and Steve Nichols

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events Square Jam

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A basketball court was set up on the east side of the Square Oct. 25 to kick off the beginning of the University of Mississippi basketball season. The players held competitions that included a game of knockout and a three-point shooting contest.

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1. Julia and Anna Way at the Emeritus Senior Living Halloween costume contest Oct. 31. 2. Marjorie Buckley, Morgan Walter, Niles Lovelady and Brittany Norman at the Emeritus Senior Living Halloween costume contest. 3. Anzaria Dean, Barbara McAlexander and Amanda May at the Mississippi State Veterans Home (VA) Halloween party Oct. 31. 4. Ricky Tramel, Judy Lott and Rob McMinn at the VA Home Halloween party. 5. Ice Core Fitness hosted a Healthy Holidays workshop Nov. 3 at the Mill at Plein Air in Taylor. Pictured are Leighton McCool, Kate Green, Liz Duperier and Julie Field. 6. Blake Jacob and Molly Tanner at the Ice Core Fitness Healthy Holidays workshop. 7. Mickey and Nancy Carole King hosted a welcome party Oct. 29 at their home for Simi and Dr. Karan Bath. Bath recently joined the practice at Oxford Bariatric. 8. Dr. Thurston Wilkes, Martha Burnett and Brenda Spencer at Bath’s welcome party. 9. Tis and Ralph Dean with Mary Sharp Rayner at Bath’s welcome party. 10. Lotte Luber won the Bramlett Elementary Parent Teacher Association’s Disney Trip Raffle on Oct. 31. The raffle raised more than $43,000 for Bramlett Elementary, Oxford Elementary, Della Davidson Elementary and Oxford Middle School. 11. Lafayette High School cheerleaders at the LHS homecoming game against New Albany on Oct. 18.

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12. Lee Family Dentistry held a Halloween candy buy-back Nov. 4 to benefit Operation Gratitude. (front) Hadley Talavs and Anna Hooker; (back) Parker Brown with Miranda and Preston Hooker. 13. Chris Reeves, Elise Lee and Joseph Sears at the Lee Family Dentistry candy buy-back.14. Lake, Olivia and Atticus Dale at the Lee Family Dentistry candy buy-back.15. Hugh Franklin, Maggie Collins and H.C. Franklin at the Oxford University School Veterans Day event on Nov. 8. 16. Sharon Lovelace with Cortney and Colton Butler at the OUS Veterans Day event. 17. Victoria Garrett, Anna Alger and Kyra Knispel-Heyworth at the OUS Veterans Day event. 18. Ashley Gilland and Kristi Carmichael at a reception for new artwork by Carlyle Wolfe and Drew Galloway at Southside Gallery Nov. 8. 19. Suzanne Scanlan with Jessica, Ivy and Jane Dennis at the Southside Gallery reception. 20. Brad Garrett, Maxwell Smith, Anders Sinha, Taylor Porter, Miles Caradine, Luke Phillips, Clayton Waites and Master Sung Ra at the Fort Worth International Taekwondo Championships on Oct. 19. 21. Mt. Hope Missionary Baptist Church members held at a 3-mile cancer walk Oct. 19. 22. Oxford girls U10 soccer team MS Flood won their semifinal in the Crossroads Soccer Tournament Oct. 27 in Jackson, Miss. Georgia Caroline Self, Makenzie Smith, Kate Blankenship, Caydence Trost, Kaley Harden, Trinity Markert, Katie Huckaby and coach Dallas Trost.

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I Am Oxford Wayne Andrews interviewed by Meaghin Burke

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Yoknapatawpha Arts Council Executive Director Wayne Andrews spoke to Invitation Oxford about the council’s holiday ornament auction. This year’s event is Dec. 12 at the Powerhouse. The ornament on this issue’s cover was made by Debbie Myers.

Q: The holiday ornament auction is YAC’s biggest fundraiser. What makes it special?

A: It’s a fun, relaxed thank-you event for YAC members. Local artists make and donate the ornaments, which we hang up all over the Powerhouse. What better decorations for a party than fun ornaments that you can take home? The great thing is that because of the number of ornaments, you’re going to find something handmade that fits your personality, and it’s going to be in your price range.

Q: How did the ornament auction start? A: It’s been a long-standing tradition for the Arts Council. It started in board members’ homes years ago, and it became the event of the season. It outgrew that setting, and they moved it to the Powerhouse. Now we have a lot of generous sponsors, and we’ve added a holiday tasting menu and signature cocktails.

Q: What are some of the popular ornaments? A: Every year there is a battle over ornaments. Lisa Howorth’s Richard Howorth ornament was very popular. She made a little Richard Howorth doll out of stuffed felt. It was awesome! It had a little book; it was very playful. One year, we had several popular scratch-and-sniff ornaments. The bidding was very competitive.

Q: Why is it important to be a YAC member? A: The people who have an annual membership are the people who support the free art programs you see around town. When you see movies in the parks, that’s your money. Why are kids getting free art classes? That’s your money. Our programs for senior citizens and veterans, that’s your money. We’re putting money into things that make Oxford great.

Q: What makes you well suited for your job? A: I love art. I’m a music junkie. I love live theater. My appreciation for art was instilled by my parents. They took us to plays, museums, historic homes. It was a big deal for us.

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