LIFE BELOW THE LINE
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I long to walk in the land of the Delta Blues.
(via cvilletochucktown)
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Ole Miss is a happy place to be this year on Signing Day.
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While in college, I remember standing outside and watching the Southern sky go black with birds. It was a fascinating and beautiful sight. This short took me back to my daydreams in Mississippi.
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Square Books, Oxford, MS - C. Strode
{ via: The Trot Line & The Old Try }
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I am Vaught Hemingway
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In the midst of cotton.
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Rowan Oak, Oxford, MS | The Home of William Faulkner
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The University is respected, but Ole Miss is loved. The University gives a diploma and regretfully terminates tenure, but one never graduates from Ole Miss.
Frank E. Everett, Jr.
B.A ‘32 L.L. ‘34 -
The Grove was a little crowded this weekend.
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William Faulkner: A True American Treasure.
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The 20 Best Small Towns in America from Smithsonianmag.com | #20: Oxford, MS
“Named in honor of the British university, Oxford prides itself on being an intellectual oasis, home of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). William Faulkner, who grew up in Oxford and modeled his fictional Yoknapatawpha County on his home, is everywhere. His family house, Rowan Oak, offers tours and showcases Faulkner’s liquor cabinet, including his metal mint julep cup. J.E. Neilson’s department store on the town square has a framed note from the cantankerous author responding to an overdue bill statement. The literary legacy has led to a renaissance of independent bookstores, including the Mississippi landmark Square Books, which showcases the state’s most famous writers, including Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams and John Grisham. Two annual conferences, the spring Oxford Conference for the Book and July’s Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, bring even more writers to town. The other arts are far from neglected; the Oxford Film and Music Festivals in February, plus the town’s proximity to Memphis and Nashville, keep Oxford on the circuit for popular and cutting-edge productions and performers. — AS”
I love/miss Oxford. I will be heading back soon for the Annual Double Decker Arts & Music Festival.
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The Trot Line’s Lazy Magnolia Southern Pecan review. Read about this insanely creative and distinctly southern beer H E R E .
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The Southern Foodways Alliance, an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, documents, studies, and celebrates the diverse food cultures of the changing American South. (To learn more about our work, visit southernfoodways.org.)
Over the last decade, the SFA has collected more than 500 oral histories and produced more than 30 films. We have trained our lenses on North Carolina pitmasters and Louisiana bartenders. We’ve captured the stories of Alabama shrimpers and Arkansas caviar fishermen. We’ve chronicled the work of Georgia cattlemen and Tennessee fried chicken cooks.
We have not, however, made a long-form documentary, aimed at chronicling the depth and breadth of Southern food culture. Until now. Directed by Joe York and produced by John T. Edge and Andy Harper, PRIDE & JOY is that film.
In this hour-long, ready-to-air documentary, we focus on the tradition-bearers of Southern food culture. We present intimate portraits of people and places while asking important questions about our common culture:
* What do foodways tell us about who we are as Southerners?
* How and why do traditional foodways endure?
* As the South’s ethnic and racial makeup shifts, how do regional foodways change?
PRIDE & JOY stands not as the final word on Southern food, but as an introduction to the ways in foodways offers insights on the region’s complex history and bright future.
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Rowan Oak, Oxford MS (Taken with instagram)
