Ernest Oliver’s picture of his son’s cowboy-themed birthday party at the park is a Norman Rockwell-worthy image...
John Cofield
C&M Package Store was a student mainstay for many semesters. And being the closest store of spirits...
In the early 1900s, Oxford had a large cotton industry. There were three gins surrounding the Square,...
Many local kids remember field trips to the dairy, and getting a free chocolate milk! For the...
“I was visiting Granny in Oxford in 1979 when B.B. King was recording his Now Appearing at...
You had to keep an eye out for student cars coming and going at Webster’s Shop-Rite and...
Eugene “Blind Dude” Irvin playing on The Square.
As kids, we roamed through the Sardis backwaters not giving it the proper respect deserved. As adults,...
The second Lafayette County Courthouse was erected in 1872. This photograph was taken shortly after itwas opened,...
In 1892, Jim Ivy was part of the construction crew building a bridge over the Tallahatchie River...
Ethel and Robert Kennedy are welcomed at the Oxford Airport in advance of Kennedy’s 1966 speech at...
This time it’s the smells of old Oxford that draw me, as they drew my dad and...
Ah, how they carried on over the William Faulkner statue. I can’t help but think Mr. Faulkner...
There was something comforting about sitting on the same spot your daddy and his gang sat a...
Remembering Gaetano “Guy” Catelli and his lenswork. My search for shots of Oxford folks to be remembered...
The carnival came to town during the Mayberry days. Grandad took this photograph about 1950. The older...
Up until the early 1960s, private hospitals met the local needs. Oxford Hospital and Bramlett Hospital were...
The wagons rolled in, and mules, tractors, and trucks came and went. The lent lazily floated by and...
There was once a time when the grammar school boys raced to The Oxford Eagle to buy papers...