I was relaxing while smoking my pipe and sipping on a greyhound when I spied a figure...
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Duvall’s Store on The Square, Oxford, Mississippi, early 1900s.
Tommy Bounds worked a county salesman route with household goods. The kids are priceless, one shy, one...
The news broke on Wednesday morning, August 27, 2025. Early into the first mass of the new...
A Facebook message sometimes just disappears. I just got one from someone wanting to know about this...
When Kroger was on South Lamar. I believe this is the old Soulshine Pizza building. What is...
Notes in My Phone is just what it says. When I hear or read something that piques...
They’rrrre baaak! Yes, my fellow Oxfordians, the students of the University of Mississippi have once again returned...
August Landscape Checklist Planning Planting Fertilizing Pruning Watering Miscellaneous Blooming Fruiting You can find more garden related...
(The following is an excerpt from my unpublished novel, Middle-Aged Messiah, in which Jesus convinces __od to...
Anyone who regularly reads my column knows that I’m a huge fan of the works of the...
With all humility this column is part two of a two-part series about people and things that...
With all humility this column is part one of a two-part series about people and things that...
It was for decades the main entrance into town. The list of noted northerners coming southbound for...
I love word play in all its different forms. It’s fascinating that the slightest alteration in spelling...
Tune in to a television news show, especially on Sunday, and you’ll encounter it. It happens on...
Rev. Willie Houston and Elbert Houston dig William Faulkner’s grave Photograph by Martin Dain, July, 1962.
I love the wind. As a child I reveled in being in the wind, especially when there...
For my generation of 1970s teens, we too were mesmerized by the comings and goings at Thacker...
Okay, y’all. It’s time for another installment of “Notes in My Phone,” my chronicles of interesting things...