When Three Dog Night released “Joy to the World”, it would go on to be its signature...
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Rebel Drive In on Jackson Avenue Extended / Business 6. The drive-in was located approximately where Home...
The old fire truck at Avent Park entertained many a local kid. We drove the big rig,...
C&M Package Store was a student mainstay for many semesters. And being the closest store of spirits...
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...
Neilson’s has anchored The Square these many decades. It is older than any business in Oxford, and...
You had to keep an eye out for student cars coming and going at Webster’s Shop-Rite and...
As kids, we roamed through the Sardis backwaters not giving it the proper respect deserved. As adults,...
In 1892, Jim Ivy was part of the construction crew building a bridge over the Tallahatchie River...
This time it’s the smells of old Oxford that draw me, as they drew my dad and...
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...
While it may be seen as just another fast-food restaurant, it was more than that for Oxford...
He was bigger than life for the kids of Oxford. Johnny Vaught was the king and Archie...
No, it was not The Gin, or The Warehouse, it was Ireland’s! Seemingly straight out of a...
Many Oxford children remember the sights and smells of the Lafayette County Co-Op. Seed, feed, and multi-colored chickens...
On The Square, Fall 1961, photograph © Martin J. Dain Collection