Roundabout Oxford® & Ole Miss
There was once a time when the grammar school boys raced to The Oxford Eagle to buy papers for five cents and sell them on The Square for ten cents, as Johnny Wayne McLarty is doing here out in front of Blaylock’s. We called it turning nickels into dimes.


Author
John Cofield grew up in Oxford. He is the son of renowned University photographer, Jack Cofield. His grandfather, J. R. "Colonel" Cofield, was William Faulkner's personal photographer, and for decades was Ole Miss annual photographer. Four generations of the Cofield family have contributed to Oxford's pictorial history.