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Reconstruction Days – Part 2

By Jack Mayfield Last week’s column was part one of an incident that happened in Oxford on July ...

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The time thief has struck me again

Someone is stealing my time. I had a whole stockpile of time and I’m starting to notice somebody ...

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Finding my Spanish ancestry

My father, Juan Jose Arrechea, was born July 29, 1884, in Narbarte, Spain-Province of Navarre. He lived to ...

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‘The Slave Narratives’ are a source for local African-American history

SENSE OF PLACE Over the years, since I started writing this column, I have referred to a book ...

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Ole Miss recruits first black player

As football season began in the fall of 1970, a Jackson Clarion Ledger columnist speculated when and if ...

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Back Roads to the Wild West, part 2

When I started writing about our September western trip, I fully intended to share the journey in one ...

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The digging of Hilgard Cut

With 2016 Black History Month beginning on Monday, I thought I would write about something many citizens and ...

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Former Gov. Bilbo sentenced to ‘jail time’ in Oxford in ’22

A few weeks ago I wrote about a former governor of Mississippi, Theodore G. “The Man” Bilbo, who proposed ...

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Downsizing? So am I getting shorter?

No, it means you’re getting “short” of breath while packing, lifting, carrying, loading, cleaning, emptying your wallet and ...

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Traveling the back roads to the Wild West

If you’ve read my earlier travel pieces, you know how we love back road adventures. This was our ...

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Grafting techniques 101

During the colder months of the year what is a gardener to do? How about giving grafting a ...

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Teaching English in Caracas

I taught fourth grade at Escuela Campo Alegre for three years from 1974-1977. It is an international school that ...

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Seeing ‘heart worth’ of a volunteer

By Lisa Coleman The most valuable thing a person can give is their time. I never really understood ...

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The weeks leading up to Christmas 1862

The weeks before Christmas 1862 were a trying time in our “little postage stamp of native spoil.” In ...

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Lessons from students

By Betsey Sawyer This fall semester, I did something fantastic … something that I could only have dreamed ...

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Christmas Eve 1962: A plundering

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the first Yankees who came on campus during the Civil War. It ...

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Make this Christmas about forgiving

By Steve Stricker Sunday, Nov. 29 was the first Sunday of Advent. Advent, or “coming” in Latin, refers ...

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Off to Caracas, Venezuela

By Joanne Wilkinson Home and Abroad When I was a teenager I developed a fascination for seeing the ...

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Column reprints here for purchase

By Jack Mayfield A Sense of Place For those of you looking for that last present to buy, ...

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Governor campaigns to close Ole Miss, Mississippi State

In the elections of 1927, one of the candidates for governor had been elected back in 1916 to ...

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Reflections on a school visit around the world

The conflict between radical Islam and the West has been fought for centuries in the Balkans. Everywhere you ...

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There’s nothing wrong with being a crazy chicken lady

For many years now, I have been trying to talk my husband in to building me a chicken ...

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