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LEGACY R EALT Y
#1 Re/Max Team in MS in 2014
Oxford, Mississippi ... The place you want to be!
Mark C. Cleary (713) 303-8924
Markccleary@gmail.com
1 FINISHED HOME LEFT! $299,000
Blake Cannon (662) 380-7144 blake@oxfordvip.com
3 LOTS LEFT, starting at $69,000
Alison Alger (662) 832-1697
•Quaint Small Subdivision! •Neighborhood Pool! •Bike/Walk to the Square! • 4 Acre Park! •AMAZING LOCATION!
alisonmalger@gmail.com
Lee Pittman (662) 645-3695 lee.pittman1@gmail.
Starting in the mid $300,000’s
Measuring in at just under 1 mile from campus, 800 Park includes luxury features like gas fireplaces, 10 foot ceilings and heart pine floors. Professionally designed, each of the 4 floor plans are one level and have private screened in porches overlooking Pat Lamar Park and Davidson Creek. There is also a pet park that will be exclusive to the 800 Park owners. The 800 Park development has plans to include some specialty retail shops, as well.
1413 South Lamar Historic Downtown Oxford Restoration. 4 bedrooms 4.5 bathrooms, a formal living and dining room, superb office, 2 real wood burning fireplaces, 3 porches, boasting a gorgeous screened in porch on approximately an acre corner lot on South Lamar. This once in a lifetime opportunity is finished out with top of the line finishes throughout orchestrated by a professional design team. Come get involved and make this masterpiece your piece of Oxford History.
$1,730,000
Contact Mark Cleary (713) 303-8924
1755 Jackson Ave. E, # 5 •Walking distance to the Square •Luxury Living •Private Balcony
$715,000
115 Hot Spur Lane
Oxford Square #141
504 Fazio Dr
204 Studio Street/Plein Air
2623 West Oxford Loop
•6 Sold/2 available for Football Season •Top Notch Finishes •Garages Available
•2 Bed 2 Bath Corner Unit •New Pool & tennis court •Walking Distance to campus
•Custom home in the country club •Walk to the club house •4 bedrooms/office/bonus room •Three-car garage
•Charming southern cottage •Real wood floors •Wood burning fireplace •Plantation shutters
•Commercial space •+/-5600 sq. ft. •Great location! •Income-producing law firm tenant
$360,000
LEGACY R EALT Y
$110,000
$625,000
$220,000
Search the entire Oxford Market at www.MarkClearyOxford.com and www.OxfordVip.com 662.234.5621 1923 University Ave Oxford, MS 38655 • Each office independently owned and operated. All information deemed reliable but is not guaranteed and subject to change without notice.
$800,000
Wellsgate
2203 Long Spur Pointe 4 Bedrooms 3.5 Baths $577,500
Spring, a time for renewal, new life.... why not welcome the season in a new home! 16008 Woodview Drive 4 Bedrooms 3.5 Baths $525,000
11015 Covington Way 5 Bedrooms 3.5 Baths $551,000
Oxford Condominiums
Beautiful Downtown Properties! ING
408 Andalusia
D PEN
4Bed/3.5Bath Attention to all details! This charming home has everything you want with maintenance-free living.
609 North 14th Street 3 Bedrooms 3.5 Baths
628 North 14th Street 4 Bedrooms 4.5 Baths $1,295,000 Cross Creek
One of Oxford’s best kept secrets! Very conveniently located and several great new plans to be built to your liking.
Condominiums Care-free living!
908 Highpointe 4Bed/4Bath Great deal in Highpointe! This condo is in great condition and features 3 bedrooms with 3 baths.
401 Bickerstaff #10 3Bed/3Bath You will not get closer to the Ole Miss campus in such a well planned condominium!
642 North 14th #1 3 Bedrooms 3 Baths $549,000 612 Centerpointe
4Bed/4.5Bath Beautiful Craftsman style home in popular Northpointe Subdivision. Inviting fireplace with exposed brick and open entertaining plan.
Wellsgate
11017 Covington Way 4 Bedrooms 3.5 Baths $544,000
3Bed/2Bath Such a well planned community of carefree living. Units are selling as quickly as they are built.
401 Bickerstaff #4 3 Bedrooms 3 Baths $249,000
13 CR (Levee Road) 3Bed/1.5Bath Charming cottage located on a tree covered lot with a convenient location. Great investment property!
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708 Ridgewood Manor
stonebridge
300 Winner’s Circle
4 Bed/ 2.5 Bath Southern charm at it’s best! Close to parks, schools, and downtown!
Stonebridge 3 Bedrooms 2 Baths $255,000
4Bed/3.5Bath Steeplechase is the location of this soon to be constructed dream home.
313 Fox hollow cove
4Bed/3Bath Taylor-Greene is the location for this well-planned home. So many great features!
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507 Tranquil Lane 3 Bedrooms 2 Baths $235,000
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302 Wellington Court 6 CR 376 237 Birch Tree Loop 111 CR 102 420 Deer Run 810 Brentwood 1605 Jackson Ave 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths 3 Bedrooms 3Baths 3 Bedrooms,2202 2 Baths 6 Bedrooms 4.5 Baths 5Bed/3Bath Cove #4 Longspur Pointe $249,900 Mature Crepe Myrtles line the$449,0004 Bed/3.5 Bath Space$489,000 galore! This home was $159,000 4Bed/3.5Bath Grandiose southern estate home located in Wellsgate subdivision. This home has it all!
entrance to this private estate home complete with a pool!
Just a minutes’ walk to the SQUARE!!
built by the builder for his family to reside-well done!
Jamey Leggitt 18007 Country wood Cove
Splendid home on a quiet cul-de-sac in Wellsgate! This home has a pool, beautiful kitchen! Everything you want!
Jamey Leggitt 662-832-7620
236 St. Andrews Circle
You have waited for this address! Absolutely wonderful neighborhood!
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802 Birkdale 5 Bedrooms 5 Bath $749,900
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IN THIS ISSUE OCTOBER 2015
OCTOBER 2015
FEATURES 26 Mapping Out School Spirit Charlie Buckley’s sculptural artwork of the Grove adds local flair to The Graduate Hotel. ON THE COVER: RON SHAPIRO AS OXFORD’S DOC BROWN ILLUSTRATED BY BRYAN NIGH
56 Bloom Again Volunteers repurpose flower arrangements to bring blossoms and smiles to those in need.
62 One Enchanted Evening The fourth annual Harvest Supper on the grounds of Rowan Oak is Oct. 22.
68 Fields of Dreams Mississippi artist Marie Hull is celebrated on what would have been her 125th birthday with the exhibit Bright Fields.
ANNOUNCEMENTS 34 Stribling & Jones 37 John Wesley Clark
EVENTS
75 Looking Back to the Future
A time machine isn’t necessary to explore the past. Pieces of local history are all around us, existing in the present day. Read about eight items that have been hiding in plain sight.
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Artist Receptions at Southside 9/11 Day of Service Art Crawl Yappy Hour Family Health and Wellness Fair The Odd Couple A Mighty Voice Oxford Fall Jamboree Junior Auxiliary Gathering Oxford Film Festival Fundraiser Crosstown Classic National Guard Symposium UM Museum Membership Party UT Martin vs. Ole Miss Football University Dames Reception
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Guest Letter From the Editor October Contributors What’s Happening In Season: Mushrooms Out and About I Am Oxford: Lila Herren
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Drs. Loria and Shipp, board certified dermatologists, at Oxford Dermatology offer specialized patient care to North Mississippi including medical and surgical treatments for all skin problems as well as a wide range of aesthetic procedures. With the addition of Dr. Shipp, we are now excited to offer cosmetic dermatology!
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from the editor
GUEST LETTER
PUBLISHER Rachel Malone West EDITOR Phil West EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Sonia Thompson ASSOCIATE EDITOR Lena Anderson ART DIRECTOR Hallie M. Thomas PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Emily R. Suber STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Joe Worthem ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Cindy Semmes ADVERTISING CONSULTANTS Alise M. Emerson, Leigh Lowery, Lynn McElreath, Stacey Raper, Moni Simpson, Whitney Worsham DESIGNERS Rebecca Bailey, Zach Fields CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Molly Brown, Rachel Burchfield, Meaghin Burke, Melanie Crownover, Matt Kessler, Kate Lechler, Gothataone Moeng, Julian Rankin, Emily Welly
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or a few years now, I’ve had a weird obsession with two palm trees in town. They line the eastern edge of the Jefferson Avenue city parking lot, and every time I pass by what’s left of them, they make me pause. Palm trees aren’t native to Oxford, and I always wonder how they got there. I mentioned them to a friend who went to Ole Miss. She told me the trees were leftover from a bar called the Sneaky Tiki, which closed before I moved to Oxford in 2007. Even though eight years is a relatively short time, I thought I had a good handle on what makes Oxford folks nostalgic: the Gin, the Hoka, the Coffee Bistro, the Kreme Cup, the original James Foods Center. But I’d never heard of the Sneaky Tiki. That got me thinking about all the other places I’ve never known about. It made me wish I could channel Marty McFly in Back to the Future. I’d hop into a time machine to take a look around old Oxford, maybe have a drink with William Faulkner
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or meet the French Marquis de Lafayette, for whom our county is named. This year is the 30th anniversary of that movie, and in one of those realizations that makes all children of the ’80s feel old, I remembered the date Doc Brown travels to at the end of the film is 2015. While we can’t take you to the future, we wanted to gain a better understanding of Oxford by exploring its history (also, we were short a flux capacitor). Pieces of the past exist all around us in the present – from dying palm trees or a pile of antique bathtubs to old posters from the Hoka, saved by owner Ron Shapiro (depicted as Oxford’s Doc Brown on this month’s cover). Each object has a story to tell, and on page 75, we bring you eight that might interest you, whether you are new to town or have lived here your whole life.
SONIA THOMPSON, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS & PHOTOGRAPHERS Joey Brent, Elizabeth Evans, Caroline Beffa Franks, Paul Gandy, Alex Hicks, Nathan Latil, Bryan Nigh, Jessica Richardson OFFICE MANAGER Hollie Hilliard COPY EDITOR 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, to obtain a copy of an event photo or to purchase an announcement, email Emily at emilysuber.invitationoxford@gmail.com.
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about the cover artist
october CONTRIBUTORS
molly McCULLY BROWN Molly McCully Brown is a John and Renée Grisham Fellow in poetry at the University of Mississippi, where she was the recipient of the 2015 Bondurant Poetry Prize. Raised in rural Virginia, she holds degrees from Bard College at Simon’s Rock and Stanford University. Her poems and essays have appeared in the Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, The Rumpus and others. For this issue, she explored the architectural history of the Flamingo apartment building and what used to exist before Rafters bar.
When artist Bryan Nigh isn’t daydreaming about the day his Honda Accord can fly him to the future, he’s helping make drawings come to life on the small screen. After earning a bachelor’s degree in 2D animation from Columbia College Chicago, he lived in Los Angeles for nine years working in the entertainment industry. Now an associate producer with Bento Box Animation Studios Atlanta, he’s worked on several animated series such as Allen Gregory, Brickleberry and The Awesomes. Nigh lives in Atlanta with his 1997 prom date and their two dogs. Although he’s bummed his Mizzou Tigers aren’t playing the Ole Miss Rebels on the gridiron this year, he hopes to return to Oxford soon because he believes bourbon tastes best there.
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kate LECHLER Kate Lechler is a visiting professor of English at the University of Mississippi, where she teaches early British literature and Renaissance drama. She also writes and reviews speculative fiction. Her work has been published in the NonBinary Review and is forthcoming in Illumen. She curates a weekly column called The Expanded Universe at FantasyLiterature.com, and is working on a novel set in a futuristic theme park. She lives in Oxford with her husband, Wil Oakes, along with a dog, a cat, and seven fish. She interviewed Ron Shapiro about his art and poster collection and answered a longtime question she’d had about the antique bathtubs on Highway 6.
matt KESSLER Matt Kessler is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing at the University of Mississippi. His articles have appeared in Candy, Vice, the Rumpus, ReadyMade and Hit It Or Quit It. He delved into two question-inducing items this month: remnants of historic wallpaper at Bouré and a peculiar windowpane that inspired William Faulkner.
gothataone MOENG Gothataone Moeng was born in Serowe, Botswana, and is working toward an MFA in creative writing at the University of Mississippi. Her short stories have been anthologized in Lemon Tea and Other Stories From Botswana, The Bed Book of Stories and Summoning the Rains and have been published in The Kalahari Review, Aerodrome and Mslexia. For this issue, she uncovered the hidden past of three historic church pews and researched a family-owned music store that was once on the Square.
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what’s happening October
A sampling of important, fun and interesting events in our area. For more events, visit invitationoxford.com.
10/22 HARVEST SUPPER
IN THE COMMUNITY
FOOD, ART AND FAMILY-FRIENDLY EVENTS & FALL PARTIES
October 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29
October 8
Thacker Mountain Radio Hour
Mini Masters: Got Milk?
Harvest Supper
A live radio show featuring author readings and a variety of musical performances. Oct. 1, 8, 22 and 29, 6 p.m., Off Square Books Oct. 15, 6 p.m., the Lyric Visit thackermountain.com for full schedule.
A fun, drop-in art workshop for toddlers with their parent or guardian. This class will focus on painting with milk. 3:45-4:30 p.m., the Powerhouse, museum.olemiss.edu/mini-masters
Friends of the University of Mississippi Museum host the annual dinner on the grounds of Rowan Oak to benefit the University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses. 7 p.m., Rowan Oak, museum.olemiss.edu
October 15-18
October 23
October 1 Visit Oxford Grand Opening The Oxford Visitor’s Center moves into the historic building that formerly housed the Freeland Law Firm. 4-5 p.m.,1013 Jackson Ave. E., visitoxfordms.com
October 2 Oxford Elementary School PTO Fundraiser Oxford Elementary School Principal Tamara Hillmer, students, and parent-teacher organization members kick off the school’s annual fundraiser. 10:15-10:45 a.m., first-grade program 11-11:30 a.m., second-grade program Oxford Elementary School, 1637 Highway 30 E.
October 2 EDF Golf Classic The Oxford-Lafayette County Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Foundation host the eighth annual EDF golf tournament. Noon, Country Club of Oxford, 662-234-4651 or info@oxfordms.com or economic.oxfordms.com
October 9 LOFT Benefit Concert Lafayette Oxford Foundation for Tomorrow hosts a benefit concert featuring ’80s cover band The Molly Ringwalds. The nonprofit supports the arts and cultural, civic, educational, health and human services, and municipal activities that improve the quality of life for residents. 7 p.m., the Lyric, loftms.org
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18th Annual Southern Foodways Symposium: Pop Goes the South! The Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi hosts its annual Foodways Symposium, where chefs, food writers and others will study food and popular culture. Tickets must be purchased in advance. southernfoodways.org
October 17 One Night Stand Motel Art Show + Saint Leo Pop-Up Dinner For one night only, artists turn motel rooms into mini popup galleries. In conjunction with the art show, forthcoming Italian restaurant Saint Leo hosts a pop-up pizza dinner. Dinner, 5-6 p.m., Ole Miss Motel (tickets required, $20 to $30, includes a Cathead vodka cocktail tasting) Motel Art Show follows, Ole Miss Motel
October 18 Buddy Walk This family-friendly walk benefits 21 United of Mississippi, a nonprofit organization that provides support and advocacy for families affected by Down syndrome. 1 p.m., the Grove, 21united.org
October 22 Mini Masters: Museum Spooktacular A fun, drop-in art workshop for toddlers with their parent or guardian. Children attending this class will create art and view “spooky” museum artifacts. 3:45-4:30 p.m., UM Museum museum.olemiss.edu/mini-masters
October 22
Friday Night Lights Barn Dance and Dinner A farm-to-table dinner at Woodson Ridge Farms. For tickets and reservations, contact dawn@woodsonridgefarms.com or 601-316-0669. woodsonridgefarms.com
October 25 Yoktail Party Sample original cocktails to be published in Yoktails, a collection of 10 Oxford cocktails to celebrate Square Table’s 10th anniversary. 6-8 p.m., the Powerhouse
October 30 Magnolia Montessori Halloween Carnival Games, cake walks and food trucks, all with a historic twist. Montessori students will also transform themselves into important historical characters and perform. 6-8 p.m., Community Pavilion on University Avenue magnoliamontessorischool.com
October 31 Color Invasion Oxford 5K Run/Walk A color run to benefit the Mississippi Alzheimer’s Association. All-white attire and costumes encouraged. 8 a.m., the Stone Center, racesonline.com
October 31 City Hall Haunted House Participate in the second annual haunted house at City Hall. Admission is $1 per person to benefit Toys for Tots. 6-10 p.m., oxfordms.net
FOR SPORTS FANS October 2, 16 and 29
Lafayette High School Football Home Games 7 p.m., Oct. 2 vs. Ripley 7 p.m., Oct. 16 vs. New Albany (homecoming) 7 p.m., Oct. 29 vs. Byhalia (senior night) All games at William L. Buford Stadium, LHS
October 9 and 23 Oxford High School Football Home Games 7 p.m., Oct. 9 vs. Lewisburg (homecoming) 7 p.m., Oct. 23 vs. Clarksdale All games at Bobby Holcomb Field, Oxford Middle School
October 9 Ole Miss Homecoming Parade and Square Jam Kick off the homecoming weekend with a parade around the Square and then watch the Ole Miss men’s and women’s basketball teams participate in a slam dunk contest on a basketball court set up on the Square. 6:30 p.m., Square Jam; Parade time TBA
October 10 New Mexico State vs. Ole Miss Football The Rebels take on the New Mexico State University Aggies in the Ole Miss homecoming game. Wear red. Time TBA, Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, olemisssports.com
October 24 Texas A&M vs. Ole Miss Football The Rebels take on the A&M Aggies. Wear navy. Time TBA, Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, olemisssports.com
October 31 Our Team, Our Town Members of Young Professionals of Oxford host the annual communitywide tailgate to benefit North Mississippi Boys & Girls Clubs. Watch the Auburn vs. Ole Miss away game on the big screen and participate in a silent auction. Time TBA, Auburn vs. Ole Miss, the Lyric October 2015 | INVITATION OXFORD
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what’s happening October
More to See, Do and Know
10/8 Triple Anniversary Tea Shop in Style The 176-year-old Neilson’s Department Store unveiled a newly renovated interior last month that features a bright, open layout with more space to display merchandise.
10/17 New House, New Home A dedication ceremony for Alpha Delta Pi, the first new sorority house built on the Ole Miss campus since the 1970s, will be held at 10 a.m. at 607 Rebel Drive.
10/24 Give Back Celebrate the spirit of philanthropy in our state by participating in the inaugural Mississippi Day of Giving. Give to the cause of your choice, and help catalyze the nonprofits in your community. msdayofgiving.org
Satisfy a Cookie Craving
Pig Out
Recently opened Insomnia Cookies, on the Square at 303 South Lamar Blvd., delivers warm cookies to your door until 3 a.m. Don’t forget a glass of cold milk to wash them down. insomniacookies.com
Tupelo-based Neon Pig Café and butcher shop is slated to open this month in the former Panini space in the Mid-Town Shopping Center on North Lamar Boulevard. The website thrillist.com recently voted the restaurant’s smash burger “Best Burger in America.” neonpig.net
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Oxford’s David Reese Chapter of the Mississippi State Society Daughters of the American Revolution hosts an honor tea from 2 to 4 p.m. at St. Andrews United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall. This is an occasion when age and length of service are rewarded, as the state’s second-oldest DAR chapter celebrates a triple anniversary: The founding of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) in 1890; the founding of the Mississippi Society in 1895; and the chartering of the Oxford chapter in 1900. Special honorees are David Reese members with 40 or more years of service, including Betty Brandon, Catherine Hoke, Lucia Holloway, Linda Norwood, Marjorie Peddle, Virginia Rebentisch, Laura Sale, Sara Smith and Louise Sneed. Sixteen other members with 20-39 years of service will also be recognized. As one of the most inclusive genealogical societies in the country, the NSDAR boasts 177,000 members in the U.S. and overseas, volunteering millions of hours annually to support the military. - Sally Malone and Laurie Triplette
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mapping out school The Graduate, Oxford’s new boutique hotel, gets high marks for referencing the local community throughout its elegant interior design, which features sculptural artwork of the Grove by north Mississippi artist Charlie Buckley. WRITTEN BY Sonia Thompson PHOTOGRAPHED BY Joe Worthem
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“The designers at The Graduate wanted something abstract but also based on actual data gathered from fans who tailgate.” -Charlie Buckley
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ven though the building is new, Mississippians will feel at home in The Graduate the minute they walk through the front door. The hotel features Cabin 82, a café inspired by the Neshoba County Fair, and its interior pays homage to the Manning family, Chucky Mullins, Princess Hoka, Wilco’s John Stirratt and Willie Morris. “Oxford has a lot of great stories to tell,” Andrew Alford, Graduate Hotels chief creative officer, said. “We wanted to combine the city’s literary history, sports legacies and vibrant arts community with the look and feel of Oxonians’ beautiful fashion style.” Perhaps one of the most striking ways that look was achieved was with a piece of commissioned art of the Grove by Tupelo-based artist Charlie Buckley (pictured). “It’s more of a sculptural piece, so it’s different from most things I do,” Buckley said. “The designers at The Graduate wanted something abstract but also based on actual data gathered from fans who tailgate.” The result is a three-dimensional, mapbased image that incorporates detailed Grove information, such as names on tailgate tents, names of Grove groups and locations of trees. “We hope for every Graduate Hotel to be the heart of the community,” Alford said. “Capturing the spirit and camaraderie of the Grove is a good place to start. This piece was a great way to represent all of our guests from this state, as well as give first-time visitors a beautiful overview of the Grove’s traditions.”
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Introducing Oxford’s most exciting Spring, a time for renewal, new life.... new development… why not welcome the season in a new home! Oxford Condominiums
408 Andalusia
4Bed/3.5Bath Attention to all details! This charming home has everything you want with maintenance-free living.
Saint Loup
908 Highpointe 4Bed/4Bath Great deal in Highpointe! This condo is in great condition and features 3 bedrooms with 3 baths.
401 Bickerstaff #10 3Bed/3Bath You will not get closer to the Ole Miss campus in such a well planned condominium!
stonebridge
3Bed/2Bath Such a well planned community of carefree living. Units are selling as quickly as they are built.
The Bernay
708 Ridgewood Manor
4 Bed/ 2.5 Bath Southern charm at it’s best! Close to parks, schools, and downtown!
Located within the country Club of Oxford Cross Creek
One of Oxford’s best kept secrets! Very conveniently located and several great new plans to be built to your liking.
612 Centerpointe
4Bed/4.5Bath Beautiful Craftsman style home in popular Northpointe Subdivision. Inviting fireplace with exposed brick and open entertaining plan.
Wellsgate
13 CR (Levee Road) 3Bed/1.5Bath Charming cottage located on a tree covered lot with a convenient location. Great investment property!
The Brie
2202 Longspur Pointe 4Bed/3.5Bath
Grandiose southern estate home located in Wellsgate subdivision. This home has it all!
810 Brentwood Cove
Mature Crepe Myrtles line the entrance to this private estate home complete with a pool!
The Talaud
18007 Country wood Cove
Splendid home on a quiet cul-de-sac in Wellsgate! This home has a pool, beautiful kitchen! Everything you want!
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236 St. Andrews Circle
You have waited for this address! Absolutely wonderful neighborhood!
300 Winner’s Circle
GRAND OAKS
313 Fox hollow cove
This 35 home development has panoramic golf course and aquatic views. With 10 timeless Acadia style plans to choose from and custom finishes to select, buyers can tailor INGtheir new home to their exact needs. PEND We invite you to visit our website today and watch our progress!
4Bed/3.5Bath Steeplechase is the location of this soon to be constructed dream home.
1605 Jackson Ave #4 4 Bed/3.5 Bath Just a minutes’ walk to the SQUARE!!
4Bed/3Bath Taylor-Greene is the location for this well-planned home. So many great features!
420 Deer Run
waterstoneofoxford.com
5Bed/3Bath Space galore! This home was built by the builder for his family to reside-well done!
Jamey Leggitt
Jamey Leggitt
Cell: 662-832-7620 Visit jameyleggitt.com jamey@kessingerrealestate.com
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The Laval
662-832-7620 • jameyleggitt.com jamey@kessingerrealestate.com
The Bordeaux
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IN SEASON Mushrooms WRITTEN BY Lena Anderson | PHOTOGRAPHED BY Joe Worthem
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eonard Brown (above), owner of Brown’s Farm in Water Valley, Miss., has the Food Network to thank for getting him into the mushroom business. While watching his favorite cooking shows, he noticed a trend of chefs “putting mushrooms in everything” and decided to help supply the demand. Brown has been growing and harvesting herbs for two decades and now runs the farm with his nephews. Two years ago he began growing shiitake mushrooms alongside his more than 25 varieties of mint, basil and more. He’s enjoyed the challenge of the new crop. “Mushrooms grow in cycles. If it gets too hot, they stop growing and shut down for a few weeks, then rest and start again,” Brown said. He also likes finding different ways to cook them; he appreciates the mellow flavor and versatility of shiitakes and uses them as a healthier
alternative to some of his favorite dishes. “I like to toss them in a little Louisiana Fish Fry batter and drop them in oil,” he said. “Almost tastes like fried chicken.”
4-6 cups canola oil 1 pound shiitake mushrooms, washed and dried well 1¼ cups Louisiana Fish Fry batter 1 egg Salt and hot sauce to taste
Pour Louisiana Fish Fry batter into a shallow dish. Whisk egg in a separate shallow dish. In small batches, dredge the mushrooms first in the egg and then in the batter until fully coated. Carefully drop the mushrooms into the hot cooking oil, and fry until golden, about 3-4 minutes. With a slotted spoon, remove the mushrooms, and place on paper towels. Repeat process until the full batch is cooked. Sprinkle with a little salt and hot sauce. Serve immediately.
Pour canola oil into a cast-iron skillet, and heat over medium heat until grease is hot and sizzles rapidly. Cut the stems off the mushrooms, and discard. Cut the caps of the mushrooms into slices about ¼ inch thick.
Brown’s Farm herbs and mushrooms are sold at the Oxford City Market every Tuesday and at the Mid-Town Market on Wednesdays and Saturdays. For more information or special orders, call Brown’s Farm at 662-701-8283.
Creole Fried Mushrooms
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Saturday, october 31 at the Powerhouse during the oLE MISS/AuBurN game. DoorS oPEN 1 Hour BEforE kICk-off
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SHELBY STRIBLING igh school sweethearts Shelby Stribling and Cody Jones were united in marriage at 6 o’clock on the evening of June 27 at Colonel’s Quarters at Castle Hill. Pastor Bill Barksdale of St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church of Oxford led the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Mr. Jack Stribling and Mrs. Jill Stribling of Oxford. She attended the University of Mississippi, graduating with a degree in communication sciences and disorders in May. She is employed with the North Mississippi Regional Center as a support coordinator and case manager. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Jones of Oxford. He attended the University of Mississippi, graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering in May. He plans to work toward a master’s degree. Dayka Briscoe served as matron of honor. Amber Bishop, Maegan Mallon, Macey Clarkson, Sydney Whittle and Kayla Shoffner were bridesmaids. Groomsmen were Tyler McManus, Alex Shoffner, Matthew Briscoe, David Rozier, Jonathan Norman and Allan Jacobs. The flower girl was Kaitlyn Jones, the groom’s niece. The ring bearer was Nicholas Jones, the groom’s nephew. Flowers were provided by Twisted Twig. Special moments were captured and photographed by Karla Watson Photography. The couple’s favorite songs, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Better Half by Keith Urban, and Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls were played during the ceremony by the bride’s brother, Brian Thurlow. Following the ceremony, the bride’s parents hosted the reception at Colonel’s Quarters at Castle Hill. Guests gathered poolside for a cocktail hour before the party began. Everyone then moved into the ballroom for additional wedding activities, which included dancing to music provided by Sammy Kim, great food, toasts and the cutting of the cakes. The bride’s cake was draped with flowers, and the groom’s cake was decorated as a golf fairway and putting green. Both were made by Decorator’s Delight of Batesville, Miss. On the eve of the wedding, the groom’s parents honored the couple with a rehearsal dinner at the Ole Miss Golf Course. Members of the wedding party, family and friends gathered to enjoy a Taylor Grocery Southern dinner and a sunset view over the 18th green. The couple honeymooned in New York City.
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events Artist Receptions at Southside Gallery View more event photos @ invitationoxford.com.
The closing reception of Terry Lynn’s exhibition, Beyond the Fields, was held Aug. 27 following a talk with the artist.
Catherine Smith and Terry Lynn
Martha Kelley and Marty Dunbar
Marisa Andropolis and Assllan Kelmendi
Paul Gandy and Allan Innman
Keelan Stokes and Spence Townsend
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Andrew McIntyre and Carlyle Wolfe
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The opening reception for the joint exhibition of Allan Innman and Spence Townsend was held on Sept. 3.
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events 9/11 Day of Service View more event photos @ invitationoxford.com.
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events Art Crawl View more event photos @ invitationoxford.com.
The University of Mississippi Museum membership party was held Aug. 25 in conjunction with the opening of an exhibit by Holly Springs native Kate Freeman Clark. The events also coincided with the Oxford Art Crawl, held the fourth Tuesday of every month.
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Emily Sanders and Emily Morton
Sofie and James Dunworth with Janine Know
Mary Edith Walker and Anne Gowdy
(front) Amy Johnson, (back) Maria Gondo, Michele Fier, Amy Schott and Samantha Fairclough
Tyrisha Battle, LaKisha Buffington and Shamecca Fitts
Vivian and Eugene Smith
Brenda West and John Stuber
Sheryl Bowen and Mark Miller
Sarah Frances Hardy, Camille Mitchell, Paula Farese and Stella Connell
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events Yappy Hour View more event photos @ invitationoxford.com.
Oxford-Lafayette Humane Society hosted Yappy Hour Aug. 25 at Round Table. Guests brought their dogs and enjoyed drink specials, appetizers and door prizes. All proceeds benefited OLHS. For more information, visit oxfordpets.com.
Colby and Kayla Kelly with Cooper
Drew Johnson and Brooke Starling with Bentley
Cele Hammett, Emily Huddelston and Kat Shenken with Lux and Maggie
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Zarabeth Childress, Cyd Dunlap, Karen Chain and Alex Yelton with Vegas
Alexis Hodges and Morgan Rhodes with Alex and Mavi
Danni Craddock, Val Rodriguez and Chelsea Sanceda with Archie
Haleigh Watson and Madelyn Temple with Lucy and Finn
Caity Maddox and Kate Wiggins with Ari and Sugar
Hannah Genes and Andrew McFann with Chef and Charlie
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events Baptist Family Health and Wellness Fair View more event photos @ invitationoxford.com.
Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi hosted a Family Health and Wellness Fair on Aug. 22 at the Oxford Conference Center. The free event included nutrition education, health screenings, fitness demos, and activities and wellness education for children.
Hayes McArthur, Hiram Eastland, Shea Johnson, Caroline Grace Gatlin and Laura Nann Harris and Avery Johnson
Renika Carothers, Wendy Traylor and Shannon Fortenberry
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Jihoon Hu, Sharjeel Gul, Kirkland Harwell, Shahbaz Gul and Wade Griffin Ruth Allison McMillin and Mariana Anaya
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Liz Young and Alex Wallace
Rachel Van Landingham and Dr. Tanya Fitts
Mia Standifer and Melody Madaris Copp
Shanta Bean and Lauren Rowlett
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Tiana, Iva and Brandon Gassion
Drew, Owens and Maggie Smith
Katie, Annie and Noah Amidon
Nora, Kelley and Cadence Clinton
Elizabeth Davis, Betty Von Kohn and Bella Gates
Macy, Gray, Charles and Mason Edmondson
Jessica, Dekota, Billy, and Chassie King
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events The Odd Couple View more event photos @ invitationoxford.com.
Theatre Oxford presented Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple Aug. 26-30 at the Powerhouse. Simon updated his original script about mismatched roommates to be a female-led comedy. Theater Oxford’s Ten Minute Play Festival will be held Oct. 8, 9 and 11.
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Mary Margaret Andrews and Courtney Hall
Melanie Addington and Daniel Perea
Caitlyn Jackson and Amanda Berrios
Christopher Schager and Rene Pulliam
Allison Abel and Abby Wilson
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events A Mighty Voice
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The annual Thisbe and Noah Scott Foundation fundraiser was held Aug. 20 at the Library Sports Bar. The benefit raised more than $81,000 to fund research and promote awareness and support for children and families affected by pediatric neuromuscular diseases.
Bonnie Anderson and Leigh Anne Carpenter
Toni Powers, Annie Haymans and Nancy Johnson
Jessica Perkins, Blake Jacob and Jessica Dennis
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Denise Jennings, Courtney Clift, Craig Jennings, Wynn Scott, Courtney Smith and Gwin Scott
Bill and Hart Quinn
Abby Flowers and Megan Tomes
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Lauren Schick and Lindsay Ballew
David McPhail and Jim Blackwood
Andrea and Ayers Spencer
Toni Capomazza, Rachel Horn and Jessica Lynch
Brooke Barnes, Lee Harris and Bill Quinn
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Mary Kate and Josh Whelan with Amanda and Jimmy Carr
David and Rachel Calhoun
Daniel Blount, Todd Wade and Norm Ellis
Claire Williamson, Abby Flowers and Cathy Lowe
Sean and Angela Maloney with Deb and Stirling Pittman
Kathie Wilson with Andy and Kimber Kennedy and Brooke Barnes
Kinney and Michael Ferris
Brooke Rutledge and Mary Morgan Wade
Leigh Lowery and Katherine Beard
Michelle McAuley and Ashley Wallace
Jim and Laurie Walker
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events Oxford Fall Jamboree View more event photos @ invitationoxford.com.
The Oxford Fall Jamboree was Aug. 14 and 15 at Bobby Holcomb Stadium at Oxford Middle School. The preseason football games were a series of two-quarter scrimmages and kicked off Friday night with an OHS Chargers’ victory against the Charleston Tigers.
John Handy Jennings, Winn Bridgers and Avery Kimbrell
Will Cooper and Jeff Cousar
Scott and Mary Leary
Morgan Harmon, Ayhuna Campbell and Jakayla Pegues
Warren and Heidi Smith
Ellen Price and Daisy Bonner
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Addison Meadows, Madison Hickey, Kaylee Gunderson, Janelle Minor and Olivia Gunderson
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Kaitlin Coker, Molly Love, Jenna Coker and Jesse Robinson
Mary Eva, Curt and Kathy Presley
Penny Heard and Aaron Craig
Nicole and Cullen Roberson
Megan, Cade, and Ella Kate Hooker with Livie Clair, Paul and Christa Moore
John, Mary Cile and Keri Meagher
Hiram Wadlington and Rashad Raybon
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bloom again A new Oxford volunteer organization was created to repurpose discarded flower arrangements to bring blossoms and smiles to even more people. WRITTEN BY Rachel Burchfield PHOTOGRAPHED BY Joe Worthem
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Bloom Again Oxford founder Betty Musselwhite (above, facing forward, and on previous page) organizes friends and volunteers to repurpose flowers donated from weddings into smaller arrangements. The new arrangements are then delivered to local hospital patients and organizations such as the North Mississippi Regional Center.
From youth to retirement, flowers have dotted the path of Betty Musselwhite’s life. As a child, her grandparents ran a flower shop in New Albany, Miss., out of their home. “We spent a lot of time playing in the shop with the tossed-out flowers,” she said. “That was my floral training, many, many years ago.” Musselwhite married a man with the last name Bloom, and when they retired and decided to give back to Oxford, flowers became a central theme in her life again. “We wanted to be of service somehow, and once we identified this opportunity, we knew it was a good fit,” she said. Musselwhite started the volunteer organization Bloom Again last spring. Bloom Again takes flowers donated from wedding receptions and other events and recycles them, along with their containers, into new arrangements for facilities that might enjoy them. On a Monday in August, one of those
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facilities was the North Mississippi Regional Center, a facility that works with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It was the second time that Bloom Again had brought flowers there, and some of the 265 residents who live at NMRC arranged the flowers and then delivered them across the center’s Oxford campus. “There were big smiles on their faces,” Allen Baker, NMRC spokesperson, said. By the end of the day, the flowers had all been arranged and delivered, and it was the talk of campus all week. “One of the places they delivered to was the staff cafeteria,” BJ Davis, NMRC spokesperson, said. “We heard lots of people commenting about the flowers and how pretty they were. It was nice to have that.” Memory Makers, a day program in Oxford for individuals with Alzheimer’s or other types of cognitive dysfunction, was also on
the receiving end of Bloom Again’s deliveries. About a dozen individuals spend time at Memory Makers from Monday to Thursday, listening to music, crafting, exercising, painting ceramics and flower arranging. Dianne Allen, the center’s director, said that the individuals arranged roses, alstroemeria, snapdragons and daisies in a variety of pastel colors that came from an Oxford wedding. “A fresh flower just makes anybody smile,” she said. “They are able to do this activity and then give it away – it is a double blessing. They enjoy it so much because they created something beautiful. Everybody enjoys them.” The idea for Bloom Again clicked for Musselwhite about three years ago in Taylor, Miss. A florist offered Musselwhite and her friends flowers from a wedding the night before that were otherwise going to be thrown out. The wheels began turning. After a friend of hers lost a family member
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To donate flowers, vases or containers to Bloom Again Oxford, call Betty Musselwhite at 901-485-5212 or email bloomagainoxford@gmail.com. She will take it from there, and if requested, will even let you know where your flower arrangement is delivered.
in Memphis, the friend asked Musselwhite to handle donating the floral arrangements from the funeral to an organization that recycled flowers from events. After some research on similar organizations, Bloom Again was born. “At the most basic level, we are happy to be able to support something green – the idea of simply getting a bit more use and enjoyment out of something that would otherwise be discarded,” Musselwhite said. “But the most positive impact we see, no doubt, is the payingit-forward aspect.” So far all of Bloom Again’s donations have come from wedding receptions, but anyone is welcome to donate, she said. “As more people find out about Bloom Again and options for using their donated
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flowers for others, we hope to have access to more sources,” Musselwhite said. Bloom Again works with families, event planners and florists to arrange pickup of the flowers after weddings. Musselwhite and her husband, Doug, are the cornerstones of the operation, but she does get help from their neighbors and a few others, she said. Bloom Again is listed with Volunteer Oxford, and Musselwhite hopes that more volunteers will come aboard. The only experience needed, she said, is to enjoy working with flowers. “We have gathered on our front porch or around the dining room table surrounded by every size of container and buckets and buckets of flowers,” she said. “It’s a really fun afternoon – and the house smells wonderful.”
Musselwhite and her volunteers sort through the flowers, recut and refresh them, and then rearrange them in donated vases and containers for delivery to different facilities that her team believes could use some flowers to brighten their day, she said. “When folks see us coming in the door with dozens of arrangements, we see nothing but smiles,” Musselwhite said. Flowers have always provided beauty in the background of Musselwhite’s life – and she hopes that will continue. Bloom Again will be around “as long as there are occasions that present us with opportunities to pay some kindness and enjoyment forward by repurposing flowers that would otherwise be discarded,” she said.
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The annual Harvest Supper on Oct. 22 is a benefit for the University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses. The magical night, held on the grounds of Rowan Oak, features dinner under the stars. PHOTOGRAPHED BY Nathan Latil
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Picture it: strands of lights draped in trees, wildflowers arranged on farm tables, music in the air, cocktails in hands. It’s the fourth annual Harvest Supper on the grounds of Rowan Oak, hosted by Friends of the Museum, but it feels as though it could be a party given by William Faulkner himself. This year’s event is from 7 to 10 p.m. Oct. 22. As in past years, it will feature a farm-to-table dinner, a live art auction (opposite, bottom left), and music. The event benefits the University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses, with proceeds supporting education, exhibitions and acquisitions. Tickets are $150 and tend to sell out quickly. Visit museum.olemiss.edu/friends to purchase tickets, or call the museum at 662-915-7073 to learn about sponsorship opportunities.
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fields of dreams
Mississippi artist Marie Hull is being celebrated, on what would have been her 125th birthday, with the exhibit Bright Fields: The Mastery of Marie Hull, and a book of the same name by Oxford’s Bruce Levingston. WRITTEN BY Julian Rankin
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ART COURTESY OF THE MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART
to stand surrounded by the art of marie hull
is to be transported through place and time. Her famous portraits of sharecroppers with worn hands and dusty dungarees – made during her 1930s WPA period – gaze contemplatively outward across the gallery at lyrical abstracts from the 1960s. In another room are Hull’s personal artifacts, her sketchbooks, charting in the artist’s own hand a career that began in earnest in 1911, at the intrepid age of 21, when she left her home state of Mississippi for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her still life oils seem preserved in perpetual bloom; her exotic birds are perched in pensive pause, prepared to take flight once more. Bruce Levingston is drawn to the magnetism of Hull’s brushstrokes. He has felt – to use the terms of his own musical milieu – the flawless composition and maddeningly beautiful melodies of her work. Levingston, too, is a Mississippi cultural ambassador. A native son of the state, the Delta-bred concert pianist has ascended to the highest echelons and achieved international acclaim. He is artist-in-residence at the Honors College at the University of Mississippi, a post that coincides closely with his rediscovery of Hull’s life and work. “I had not visited Ole Miss or Oxford since my teen years,” Levingston said. “I came back for the first time in 2010 specifically to see an exhibition of Marie Hull’s work that Opposite, High Horizon, undated, oil on canvas; collection of Mississippi Museum of Art, gift of Virginia McGehee. Left, Cuenca, Spain, circa 1930, watercolor and graphite on paper; collection of Mississippi Museum of Art, bequest of the artist.
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was being presented by the University [of Mississippi] Museum. I was so moved by the magnificent Hull paintings I saw, many part of the museum’s impressive permanent collection, that it was then that I began seriously to think about writing a book about the artist.” Hull was born in 1890 in Summit, Miss., and traveled the world in the decades to come capturing the flora, fauna, humanity and spirit of her surroundings. She settled in Jackson, and her artworks and legacy live on in museum and private collections across the Southeast. Her life and career are being celebrated this fall through two exhibitions at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson and a recently published catalog by Levingston, coinciding with the 125th anniversary of her birth. The exhibitions are on view through Jan. 10. This remembrance is due in large part to Levingston, who curated Bright Fields: The Mastery of Marie Hull, the larger of the two exhibitions (the book shares the same title). The city of Oxford, his adopted hometown, has been instrumental to his inspiration. “Since I have gotten to know Oxford better, I’ve come to realize that the depth of talent and creativity in this community is absolutely staggering,” Levingston said. “Wherever you turn, there is a brilliantly accomplished writer, painter, sculptor or musician. Oxford is one of the truly magical and inspiring places to live in this country.” Oxford’s impact on these exhibitions is also visible on the gallery walls. The two exhibitions, Bright Fields and the smaller On the Road With Marie Hull (exploring the artist’s far-flung travels), showcase nearly 150 of Hull’s works, the most ever assembled. The University of Mississippi Museum has provided some striking examples of Hull’s daring abstraction, and the family of Judge Top, Still Life, 1920, oil on board; gift from the artist to the family of Judge and Mrs. Mike Carr. Left, An American Citizen, 1936, oil on linen; collection of Mississippi Museum of Art, gift of Dr. Blair E. Batson, Jackson, Miss. Right, untitled, undated, watercolor on paper; collection of Mississippi Museum of Art, anonymous gift.
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and Mrs. Mike Carr, notable Oxford arts supporters, has loaned a still life oil painting that fortifies the exhibition’s diverse scope. “One of the most pleasurable parts of writing my book and curating the exhibition has been the opportunity to meet so many wonderful people who knew Marie Hull and collected her work,” Levingston said. “It was particularly exciting to find out that one of my friends right here in Oxford, Julie Chadwick, is actually a relative of Hull’s through her mother Mary Helen ‘Babe’ Carr. The more I researched Hull and her family, the more I came to realize what remarkable people they were, and are.” Levingston’s book, published by University Press of Mississippi, delves into the artist’s life in new ways, providing a permanent record of Hull’s resonance. The celebratory undertaking is, as Marie Hull was, imprinted by many places and many people. Artworks and artifacts have traveled from treasured collections in virtually every corner of the state. They are gathered together, along with the arts community at large, to pay homage to one of Mississippi’s most influential and trailblazing artists. “Marie Hull’s impact on visual art in the state cannot be overstated,” said Betsy Bradley, director of the Mississippi Museum of Art. “She was a founding member of the Mississippi Art Association – the precursor to this Museum. She bequeathed to our collection a dazzling array of paintings as well as a priceless trove of unpublished sketchbooks, and she taught and inspired, during her long and spirited life, an untold sum of artists who have gone on to careers of their own in Mississippi and beyond.” Julian Rankin is a writer and photographer from Jackson, Miss. He is the marketing director at the Mississippi Museum of Art.
Top, Bright Fields, 1967, oil on canvas; collection of Mississippi Museum of Art, Mississippi Art Association purchase. Left, Seated Male Nude Study, undated, charcoal and chalk on paper; collection of Mississippi Museum of Art. Right, Sail Shapes, 1964, oil on canvas; collection of the University of Mississippi Museum, Dr. Hal L. and Mae Ballew Collection.
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Back to the Future came out 30 years ago, and when Doc Brown travels forward in time at the end of the movie, he sets his sights on the impossibly faraway date of … Oct. 21, 2015. The future has arrived, and yet the past still isn’t really past at all, to quote one of our former neighbors. It’s all around us, hiding in plain sight. ILLUSTRATED BY Bryan Nigh October 2015 | INVITATION OXFORD 75
A Wall of Living History A bulletin board is like a train station for information, a place where nothing stays around too long. It’s full of ephemera, pieces of paper that are meant to be thrown away: posters for concerts or films, fliers for roommates or after-school tutoring, their bottom edges ragged like a gap-toothed mouth. But to some people, a bulletin board is more. It’s decoration, entertainment, or even history. For Ron Shapiro, bulletin boards are all of the above. In his old movie theater, the Hoka (which existed from 1978 to 1996 in an old cotton warehouse on South 14th Street, between Tyler and Harrison avenues), the walls were a giant bulletin board. “The thing about a bulletin board is, it’s interesting,” Shapiro said. “People would come in just to read the walls.” When he and Jim Dees, a former Hoka employee, went on road trips, they would always bring a poster back as a souvenir. “But it had to be from an event that had already happened; otherwise it was bad juju,” Shapiro said. He’s held on to many of those old items. Soon some will be on display again. Shelter on Van Buren, Shapiro’s newest endeavor with Teri and Lee Bowie (owners of Cups espresso café on Jackson Avenue), will feature art and photos from Oxford’s past. The new business is slated to open late this fall in the basement of Neilson’s, a space that was once used as a storm shelter. Shelter will perform multiple functions: coffeehouse, music venue and gathering place. It will feature coffee, drinks, smoothies and
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breakfast tacos, as well as Shapiro’s famous Hoka cheesecake and fudge pie. But Shelter’s most important function will be as a refuge for residents. Like at the Hoka decades before, the walls at Shelter will be a tangible reminder of the Oxford community. Shapiro said fliers for readings at Off Square Books, posters for local bands and even snapshots of regulars might make it onto the walls as décor. In and among these objects will be pieces
of history Shapiro has saved from his own life. Former Hoka patrons might recognize some of the art, such as a 6-foot-tall Lamar Sorrento painting of Albert King; a poster for an R.L. Burnside concert; an ad for Hunter S. Thompson’s campaign when he ran for sheriff of Aspen, Colo.; or a map showing where all the Mississippi blues musicians were born. This visual archive of Oxford, from the 1970s to current day, will be walls of living history, tying Oxford’s past to its future.
Save the Clock Tower! WRITTEN BY Sonia Thompson Even though Marty McFly seemed uninterested in saving a piece of his hometown history in the movie Back to the Future, Oxford residents felt otherwise about the Square’s neoclassical Lafayette County Courthouse and its rounded clock tower. The original courthouse, built around 1840, burned during the Civil War and was rebuilt in 1870. In 1949, the twostory building was expanded with three-story wings flanking the east and west sides. It was remodeled again in 1979. The $3 million Lafayette County Courthouse Restoration and Renovation project began in 2004 and lasted through 2009. Howorth & Associates Architects designed and oversaw the work, which included improvements to the exterior façade, windows and major interior renovations. The Lafayette County Board of Supervisors contracted out the clock tower work to Lloyd Larish, an antique clock repairman in Faribault, Minn. “Prior to the clock being restored, it was notoriously inaccurate,” architect Tom Howorth said. Larish removed the clock gears and wooden hands and took them back to his Minnesota workshop. The repairs took longer than the building renovations, and the courthouse clock stood without hands until 2010. Today, the clock is back in working order, ticking away the minutes of life in Lafayette County.
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Hot Tub Time Machines In a field off of Highway 6, halfway between Oxford and Batesville, sit about 200 antique cast-iron bathtubs. Rain or shine, they’re there, in all shapes and sizes: 5-foot standard tubs, 7-foot slipper tubs and the rare doubleslipper, both ends curving up like a smile. These tubs have stood the test of time and the elements. Most of them are more than 50 years old, and some are more than 100. They served their previous owners well. Over the years, they harbored babies being bathed, children pretending to be deep-sea divers and the luxurious (and all-too-rare) bubble bath. Their owners did not treat them as kindly. The tubs arrive from all over the country,
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usually from workmen who sell scrap metal. But they’re not there to rust out and die. Ricky Beard gives them new life. Beard owns Southern Tub Repair & Refinishing, which he opened in 1989 to resurface and restore antique bathtubs and sinks. He’s a man who appreciates a good tub – he has a 6-foot standard in his own house and takes a soak in it most evenings. “I knew that no one in the Oxford area was doing this, so I thought I’d learn how,” Beard said. After a two-week apprenticeship with a tub restorer in Texas, Beard returned to Mississippi and opened his own business. “I love fixing them up and making them new for people,” he said.
In Beard’s capable hands, the antique tubs become functional works of art. One day he might brush on a clear coat, sealing in the tub’s patina for “that rustic look.” The next day he might paint an old basin cherry red with an Ole Miss logo on the side. He has piles of feet for the tubs, too: miniature carved pedestals, eagle claws, even a set of pink lion paws with the claws painted black. Once he’s finished, the tubs are delivered to their new owners in Oxford, Water Valley, Batesville and beyond – to people who take old objects and love them again until 100 more years from now, when they might, maybe, finally need a new coat of polish.
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Window of Opportunity A charred shard of glass is on display at Rowan Oak. A signature is etched across its center, but the name is hard to decipher. Is it Sadie Root? Sandy Cane? Sykes Roo? Legend has it that this windowpane was the inspiration for the character Cecilia Farmer from William Faulkner’s 1951 novel Requiem for a Nun. The “frail blonde girl” uses a diamond ring to inscribe her “fragile and indelible signature” into the window of the county jailhouse. But is this the windowpane that inspired Faulkner? And whose signature is it? In the 1965 fall issue of Mississippi Quarterly, scholar E.O. Hawkins details the windowpane’s history. The signature belongs to Jane Taylor Cook, who lived at the Tate House on South Lamar Boulevard. In 1863, the 7th Tennessee Confederate Troop camped across the street from the Tate House as they retreated from Union soldiers. Irate, the 16-year-old Cook crossed the street and berated the Confederates for their cowardice. One of the soldiers, Captain William Montgomery
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Forrest, was so impressed by Cook’s passion that he returned to Oxford after the war and married her. The Tate House burned down in 1947, and the shard of glass was donated to the Mary Buie Museum in 1955. Jane Cook intrigued Faulkner. In The Unvanquished, a character named Celia Cook etches her name into a windowpane with a diamond ring and then marries a Confederate soldier named General Forrest. An almost identical account is told in Intruder in the Dust. However, is Jane Cook the inspiration for Cecilia Farmer? Emory University professor Sally Wolff thinks not. Unlike Jane Cook, Cecilia Farmer is a helpless, anemic child. In Ledgers of History, Wolff argues that Farmer is, in fact, based on Ludie Baugh, the sickly daughter of Memphis mayor Richard Baugh. Ludie lived at the McCarroll Place in Holly Springs during the Civil War and, like Cecilia, spent most of her time staring out the window. She married a Confederate soldier and died soon thereafter.
Many Faulkner scholars doubt the legitimacy of Wolff’s account. Others argue that the legend of Ludie Baugh was well known and that Faulkner certainly would have been familiar with it. Some mysteries have been solved, and some remain. The glass on display at Rowan Oak bears the name of Jane Cook. She etched her signature into a window at the Tate House in the early 1860s. Jane Cook inspired characters in The Unvanquished and Intruders in the Dust. It’s uncertain if she inspired Cecilia Farmer. However, it is certain that this gesture greatly inspired Faulkner – a young woman watches Civil War soldiers march by her house and etches her signature into a windowpane with a diamond ring. This occurs again in the ghost story he told children about Judith Shegog, previous inhabitant of Rowan Oak, who etched her name in the window and then threw herself off the balcony because she could not marry a Union soldier. Shegog, legend has it, haunts the house to this day.
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If These Walls Could Talk Families, friends and couples crowd the downstairs dining room, upstairs bar and wrap around balcony at Bouré. The din of conversation picks up at dinner and intensifies until last call. The atmosphere is young and loud. The décor is, likewise, modern. Flat-screen televisions and large, framed photographs line the walls. Natural light brightens the dining room, which has an open layout that allows diners to see into the kitchen. Sleek bars feature prominently on both floors. And yet, at the center of the bustling restaurant, along a dividing wall behind some pipes, is turn-of-the-20th-century toile wall paper. It feels out of place in such a contem porary setting. Aristocrats in riding attire frolic on the grounds of a colonial estate. A gentleman in a top hat waits upon a maiden who is variously riding a horse sidesaddle or strolling with a parasol. Bouré owner John Currence discovered the toile wallpaper while renovating the
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building in 2011. Contractors tore down the drywall and found it applied directly to the plaster of the building’s foundational brick wall. Surprised, Currence decided to keep it. “I like it,” he said, “because it speaks to an era of time that was contentious. It’s benign enough to be an English fox hunt. But it also speaks to the South’s antebellum era. It could be a scene from Gone With the Wind.” Since the renovation, the wallpaper has become a bit of a local mystery. Oxford native Will Lewis, the former owner of the Downtown Grill (which occupied the building before Bouré), didn’t realize how much of the wallpaper still existed. He’d only known about a small patch that was visible in the former restaurant’s vacuum closet. He purchased the building in 1987 from another establishment called Smokehouse, where the wallpaper was also obscured. Lewis believes it might date back to a café that was opened in the building after World
War II. The wallpaper, he says, matches the café’s general décor. He guesses the year to have been 1948. Jim Weems, general manager of City Grocery, likes Lewis’ estimate. The wallpaper was affixed to a room in his childhood home. His parents built the house, in the Mississippi backwoods between Lexington and Tchula, around that same time. When Weems saw the wallpaper at the renovated Bouré, he was stunned. He’d only seen it one other time, in 1976, while touring Mount Holly, the Dudley Plantation in Foote, Miss. “I don’t wish I had a piece. I don’t want it,” Weems said. “But I thought it was interesting to look at.” When asked what made the wallpaper so memorable, Weems smiled. “As a kid, my sister and I would stare at it. You could look at it and make up fantastic scenarios. You could write, I wouldn’t say a novel, but start making up stories.”
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Where We’re Going, We Do Need Roads WRITTEN BY Lena Anderson Maybe Doc Brown didn’t need roads for his DeLorean time machine and Marty McFly didn’t need them for his hover board, but Oxford does need them – desperately. With Lafayette County showing the highest growth rate in the state, the need for more roads, more parking and better traffic regulation is crucial. City officials are planning for Oxford’s future, with a visioning plan underway for the upcoming bicentennial in 2037, and chief among the requests from citizens so far is a better way to handle Oxford’s traffic and parking problems. In addition to transportation concerns, the plan will address other critical issues for Oxford, including future land development, housing, economic growth and more. The project will be guided by public input, and residents are encouraged to get involved. For more information, visit vision2037 .mysidewalk.com or facebook.com/vision2037.
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It may be somewhat peculiar to look at inanimate objects and wonder what stories they could tell, seeing that many objects are just that – possessions with often no greater value than sentimental. A set of three church pews in what is now the Burns-Belfry Museum and Multicultural Center may be the exception, having survived for longer than a century. They are perhaps Oxford’s best symbol of the resilience and steadfastness in the midst of the upheaval and systemic oppression synonymous with the story of the African-American in the South – and all of America. Unassuming and basic in their construction, the pews still retain their original deep chocolate brown color, belying their storied 148-year history. The pews came into existence in 1867, four years after Emancipation, the year the men of Freedmen Town built the Burns Methodist Episcopal Church, a place of
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their own for worship and community. Those who speak of it today tend to call Oxford’s first African-American church the “old Burns” or the “frame church” – evoking the memory of the original frame building, painted white with a blue ceiling and built on land given to freedman Harrison Stearns by his former owners. The “frame church” exists now just in photographs and the stories told about it. Only those three pews survived the church’s many reincarnations. They lasted through the Burns church’s reconstruction into the 1910 brick building on East Jackson Avenue that many church members (according to information from the museum) mortgaged their houses to contribute toward. In the 1930s, when Oxford’s only African-American school burned, the church was used as a classroom, and the pupils used the pews as desks,
kneeling before them to write their lessons. In 1974, the Burns congregation built a new church and relocated, and in 1978 the East Jackson Avenue brick building was put up for sale. The building changed hands a few more times, with the last owner being novelist John Grisham, who used it as his office. Grisham donated the building to the Oxford-Lafayette County Heritage Foundation, which, along with the Oxford Development Association, has been involved in the restoration project, more than 10 years in the making. The pews parted ways with the building during its turn as a place of commerce. “Some were in storage at the new church, and some I found in people’s barns,” said Jim Pryor, who oversaw the renovation. “Only this set of three was salvaged as part of the renovation effort, and they are now once again in their old Burns home.”
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Fine-Tuning a Façade The old-style, upward-slanting cursive is faded but preserved, and its black paint reads Callaway Music Co. The loopy letters were hidden from sight for decades, until the proprietors of South Depot Taco Shop recently tore down the green-tile façade from the building (next door to South Depot), which they are remodeling for a new restaurant. The demolition work uncovered the sign from the music store, which opened in that location in the early 1950s. It rekindled some nostalgia in residents who are old enough to have lived through a Square that has changed faces many times over, and it sparked curiosity in those who do not know the Oxford of long ago. Jeff Callaway, a trombone player who has played with many Oxford bands, bears the last name of the old store. He is a distant relative of the Callaway family who owned the business. Jeff confessed that he was unaware of the music store – until just after the sign reemerged.
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“The music company was ahead of my time,” Jeff Callaway said. “I had no idea about it, even when I was in school here.” Jeff was born in Jackson, Miss., and raised in Starkville, Miss. He moved to Oxford in 1983 when he transferred to the University of Mississippi his junior year. “It’s only now that the front has been torn down that people have been calling me and telling me about it,” said Jeff, who lives in Abbeville, Miss. An online search revealed a Callaway Family Association newsletter from 2004, which discloses that a Richard Floyd Callaway, known as Dick, was proprietor of the music company, a fact confirmed by Oxford historian Jack Mayfield. Dick Callaway was a pianist who toured with The Mississippians, the Ole Miss jazz band. He sold musical instruments and records at his shop, and also offered piano repairs and tuning. In addition to the music store, the
Callaways – Dick and his wife, Jean – owned a dress shop on the Square, in the space that today houses My Favorite Shoes. Jeff remembers the dress shop and said it was still open when he was a student in the ’80s. Former and current Oxford residents reminisced on John Cofield’s Facebook page, where he often posts photographs from the old Oxford, some taken by his father, renowned photographer Jack Cofield. His posting of the rediscovered Callaway Music Co. signage evoked memories from some of his followers, who posted about buying great records from the store, or about musicians who played with Dick Callaway. Trey Horne, owner of South Depot, said since the sign was uncovered, he plans to keep it visible, even when his new business opens. “We are going to keep the sign. Even now, because it’s so old, we are being very careful not to do any damage,” Horne said. “We want to preserve the history.”
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A Religious Experience The newly remodeled Rafters Bar and Grill is wide and breezy, all concrete floors, burnished wood and large, open spaces. The evening light pours in off the patio in a wave and washes the whole place almost blue. A couple of little boys sprawl, loose-limbed, in leather chairs in the corner while their parents finish dinner at a nearby table. Meanwhile, the bar counter starts to fill up with young men in ball caps drinking bottled beer and couples chatting with their faces tilted close together. There’s a stage to one side where there’ll be music later, but for now it’s still pretty quiet. Looking up at the ceiling, at all that vaulted space with rough-hewn wooden beams and ebbing shadows, it’s easy to forget this is a bar at all. In fact, said owner Hudson Chadwick, the place had many lives before he turned it into Rafters earlier this year. Downstairs, in the space that occupies the Corner Bar, the
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storefront was previously a collection of shops, including Cofield photography studio, where William Faulkner could be found hanging out and having his picture taken. The site that now hosts Rafters and The Corner Bar was originally home to the old Methodist church, which burned sometime before the 1920s. After the fire, the church relocated around the corner, but relics have a way of lingering on. From the early 1920s through the late ’60s, the space was the Henry Hotel, which, according to Chadwick, housed the journalists who poured into town in the fall of 1962 to cover James Meredith’s arrival at the University of Mississippi. It isn’t hard to imagine them wandering the floors, comparing notes and shared disbelief over the riots. In the roughly 50 years between the Henry Hotel closing and Rafters’ opening, a handful of businesses came and went. Chadwick thinks
maybe a Lebanese restaurant opened at one point, and it was home to the Oxford American magazine offices in the ’90s, but nothing lasted long, and no significant renovations were done. During the Rafters overhaul, Chadwick removed almost a quarter of a million pounds of concrete from the building – weight from its previous lives. “Everything but the roof was concrete,” Chadwick said, laughing. But underneath all that rock he unearthed one delicate stained-glass window, left over from the fire and the building’s church days. Now the window is in storage while Chadwick tries to find someone who can restore it and create a couple of windows to match. One day, though, he hopes to install it under Rafters’ high ceiling, a nod to the building’s history and all the materials that have lasted through the years to make it what it is today: wood beams, concrete and, unbelievably, glass.
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The South’s South Beach The Flamingo apartment building doesn’t exactly scream Southern history. With its yellow stucco façade and slightly peeling pink trim, it would look more at home in Miami than it does among the oak trees and traditional houses lining University Avenue. That large teal flamingo silhouette on the building’s front door may appear to be an Oxford interloper, but Square Books owner Richard Howorth said the Flamingo was actually Oxford’s first apartment complex. Built in 1937, the building was the harbinger of a temporary architectural shift in Oxford, but today it’s the only substantial evidence that remains of the town’s brief flirtation with the flat roofs and glass-block windows of Art Moderne. The Flamingo was designed by architect
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James T. Canizaro as part of a commission from the town to build a “sleekly modernist concrete apartment house” at the corner of University Avenue and South 11th Street. Canizaro was educated at Notre Dame and spent the early part of his working life in Chicago, but he was raised in Vicksburg, which made him a natural choice to bring architectural innovation to Mississippi. His building went up quickly, and by 1938 Canizaro had made friends in Oxford and won the commission to design the town’s city hall. Like the Flamingo, the old city hall building had a flat roof, a muted stucco exterior and a hypermodern look completed by a ribbon of windows curving nearly all the way around it. For a while, Canizaro’s new city hall was all the
rage, and Art Moderne façades sprung up all over Oxford, from Holley’s Auto Garage on Van Buren Avenue to Ruth’s Dress Shop on the Square. This aesthetic fascination didn’t last, though, and by the 1970s the city hall and almost all of the town’s other Art Moderne buildings had been demolished. For reasons that aren’t exactly clear to anyone, the Flamingo outlasted the demolitions and has housed Oxford residents since its construction. In the early 1990s it even served as one of the filming locations for the screwball comedy The Gun in Betty Lou’s Handbag. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009, giving official confirmation that even though it looks different, it still qualifies as an Oxford institution.
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Welcomes Dr. Barnett to our staff!
Providing comprehensive healthcare for women from adolescence through the child bearing years and beyond.
• Obstetrics & Gynecology • 3D & 4D ultra-sonography • Expanded infertility options David J. Williams, M.D., R.PH., F.A.C.O.G. Robert E. Barnett, M.D., F.A.C.O.G.
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events Junior Auxiliary Annual Gathering View more event photos @ invitationoxford.com.
The Junior Auxiliary of Oxford held its annual gathering Aug. 31 at the home of Jolee Hussey. The group provides charitable services to the community with an emphasis on projects and fundraisers benefiting children. For more information, visit jaofoxford.com.
Molly Turner, Julie Field, Jolee Hussey, Jennifer Gross and Eleanor Davis
Sarah Rowlett, Cathy Lowe and Allison Crain
Mary Moreton, Cathy Lowe and Claire Eleanor Davis and Elise Lee Crews
Dixie Jordan, Amery Moore and Jane Cross
Julie Field and Julie Nichols
Ginger Brown, Sarh Rowlett, Sue Gaston and Alison Ross
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events Oxford Film Festival Fundraiser View more event photos @ invitationoxford.com.
An advance screening of A Walk in the Woods was shown on Aug. 25 at Malco Oxford Commons Cinema, with proceeds going to the 2016 Oxford Film Festival. The film features local actor Susan McPhail along with Robert Redford and Nick Nolte.
Patti Harrison and John Allison
Jo Byrd and Donna Ruth Roberts
Kaye Bryant with Marilyn and Richard Frey and Sue Gobert
Billy and Madge Howell
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Milly West and Jane Gardener
Jake Thompson and Melanie Addington
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Chase House and Jason Rochelle
Don and Susan Mason
Jesse and Valeria Barksdale
Tom and Carol Sharpe
Paige and Joe Ann Allen with Courtney Hall
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events Crosstown Classic View more event photos @ invitationoxford.com.
The annual Crosstown Classic football game between Oxford High School and Lafayette High School was held Sept. 11 at Lafayette High School. The OHS Chargers took home the Crosstown Classic trophy for the fourth straight year after a 31-21 win.
Chick Drewrey and Coach Johnny Hill
McKenzie Tyler, Ivey Abel, Kaitlyn Kennedy, Madisyn Martin, Merrill Lamar and Sara Caroline Bridgers
Gail Caldwell, Alex Bautista, Emily Robinson and Kayla Arman
Will Cullen and Lakynn Hillhouse
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Edi Kent, Megan St. Peters and Raegan Ramage
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Marcus and Lisa Pegues
Lafayette High School Cheerleading Squad
Meghan Sharp, Patricia Ward, Alex Drewrey and Megan Wooten
Anna Grace Chandler, Meredith Goza and Sydney Spears
Bobby, Ginny and Luke Abraham
Sherie Holland, Katie Jenkins and Sandra Smith with Greer and Ellis Claire Finley
Angie, Kortlen and Jason Wilfawn
Niyounce Brand and Emma Chance
Katherine Poole, Ellie Hinton and Anna Katherine Vega
Brent and Christy Larson
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events National Guard Annual Symposium View more event photos @ invitationoxford.com.
The National Guard Symposium was held Aug. 29 at the Oxford Conference Center. The event was hosted by the 2nd Battalion, 198th Armored Regiment and included a formal dinner, awards ceremony, live entertainment and guest speaker BG Allen Brewer.
Ryan Durand and Hayden Houston
Brooke Keen, Richard Grant, Alfonso Perea and Jessica Woodruff
Matt Kunz and Kayla Shumaker
Shumont Phillips and Shawanna Hunt
James Williamson and Caroline Schulz
Magen and John Davis
Brittany and Billy Herrington with Kevin Grace and Lee Greco
Phil and Lindsey Baquie
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Damario and Lashonta Sanders
Seth and Morgan Barker with Jimma McGee and DeAndre Eiland
Linda and George Christian
Tom McLeskey and Angie Lamb with Hanah and Ashley Williams
Danielle and Quindarius Martin
Rachel Clark and Jeff Albury
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events UM Museum Membership Party View more event photos @ invitationoxford.com.
The University of Mississippi Museum held its annual membership party Sept. 10 at the museum. The event included an opening reception for its latest exhibit, Intervals and Disturbances, by artist Ben Butler, which will be on display through Dec. 18.
Jason Bouldin and Kay Croom
Rebecca Phillips, Emily McCauley, Melanie Munns and Marti Funke
John and Melody Maxey with Claiborne Barksdale
Ben Butler and Laurel Sucsy
Connie Haye, Ken Wooten and Margaret Wylde
Henry Clarke and Toni Coleman
Elliot Long
Gail Coggins April Haynes
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Michael and Gayle Henry
Joe Curry and Hurston Reed
Jimmy Thomas and Lynn Wilkins
Lance and Reba Greer
Stella Connell and Marty Dunbar
Mary Sexton and Philip Loria
Ann O’Dell and Jean Huddleston
Marian Barksdale and Tom Howorth
Martha Kelly and Polly Williams
Douglas and Ralph Vance
Benjamin and Angie Walls
Suzanne James and Randy Hayes
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events UT Martin vs. Ole Miss Football View more event photos @ invitationoxford.com.
The University of Mississippi kicked off football season with its home opener against UT Martin on Sept. 5 at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. The Rebels beat the Skyhawks 76-3, scoring the most points in a game for Ole Miss since 1935.
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Rebecca Reed with Richard and Julie Correro
Mary Mitchell, Ashley Lynch and Cindy Moreland
Mahlon Robinson, Kathleen Ertle, Dana Lavy and Helanna Salinas
Pearce Crosland, Rod Bridges, Cierra Ray and Mary Kate Berger
Kirby Sage, Heather Riddell, Carl Hill, Sarah Tutor and Star James
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events University Dames Reception View more event photos @ invitationoxford.com.
The University Dames of the University of Mississippi held its annual newcomer’s reception on Sept. 13 at the Lyceum. The social and charitable group consists of women with an affiliation to Ole Miss faculty and staff.
Sue Gaston, Susan Zachos and Nancy Mitchell
Sharon Lee and Ivonne Liebenberg
Latoya Faulk, Shirley Gray and Ellie Moore
Felicity and Kelli O’Reilly
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ELLIOTT LANE OPEN HOUSE
David Blackbourn, Kyle Bailey and Shawn Tomes
Anne Marie, Genevieve and Bradley Gordon
Kelley and Nancy Carole Notestone with Charlotte Parker
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I AM OXFORD Lila Herren
INTERVIEWED BY Meaghin Burke | PHOTOGRAPHED BY Joe Worthem Oxford native Lila Herren, 72, is the director of patient, guest and volunteer services at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi. With the new hospital under construction and slated to open in 2017, Herren takes a look back. Q: What is your history with the hospital? A: I was born at the Oxford Hospital on Van Buren [the predecessor to the current Baptist hospital] on May 11, 1945. My mother was a nurse there. She still has the canceled check from when she paid the bill. For a 10-day stay when I was born, it cost $101.65. Q: What is your role at the hospital today? A: I started at Baptist in Memphis in 1980 working for the president. For the last 25 years, I’ve worked as the Oxford liaison between the physicians, staff and the families. I’m also the volunteer coordinator. Q: What kind of work do the volunteers do? A: I oversee more than 60 volunteers. They are the backbone of our hospital, our ambassadors. They are greeters, they give information, deliver magazines to patients, work in the emergency department. Some act as hostesses in the intensive care waiting room, checking on families and friends, making sure they have everything they need. I also oversee a program called Experience Critical, in which a group of pre-med students has the opportunity to see how an emergency department works. Each semester we offer the program to about 40 Ole Miss students. There are lots of opportunities, and there is something for everybody. Q: How have you seen Oxford change? A: The Oxford that I grew up in was laid-back and quiet and tranquil. We could walk anywhere, houses weren’t locked, grocery stores delivered to your home. Our hangout in high school was Blaylock’s Drug Store, which is where Square Books is now. We had the Teen Center and the Kreme Cup and not many other places to go, and it was kind of nice. Movies were 50 cents. It was a simpler, magical time.
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Early detection lasts a lifetime. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Baptist wants to remind all women that early detection is the best protection. When breast cancer is found early and confined to the breast, the 5-year relative survival rate today is 99 percent. Get a clinical exam by a health care professional every three years between the ages of 20 and 40. After 40, or if you have certain high-risk factors, schedule an annual mammogram. If not for yourself, then for the ones who depend on you. Schedule your mammogram today! Please call 662-513-1699.
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