My first visit to this annual event was in 2018. Johnny Morgan and I were only passingly...
Guy
Guy rode a bike around town and photographed Oxford life. Born in Westchester County, New York but moved to Oxford, Mississippi in October 2010, Guy was commonly known by his pen name, Gaetano (‘Guy’) Catelli. Guy was a photographer, writer, and bike rider in Ole Miss. He also used the pen name Billy Joe Russell, a play on his Baptismal name William and Confirmation name Joseph. Reynolds Russell, aka Gaetano (‘Guy’) Catelli. passed away December 12, 2023.
April 30 here in Oxford was a perfect spring day for Rev. Shuler Griffin to be installed...
Louis Bourgeois, hails from Slidell, Louisiana. He used to teach poetry at the University of Mississippi. But,...
For all Oxonians, especially Catholics, October 7 is a date to remember because of: 1. Catholic Europe’s...
Outside stately Bryant Hall on a balmy day in early autumn, teachers, and students from the University...
The largest American flag in The Grove this past Saturday helped shade the tent of Andy and...
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of...
“Equality,” I spoke the wordAs if a wedding vow…Ah, but I was so much older then,I’m younger...
“Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.” (CS Lewis) In my last column,...
“The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers.”...
As part of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture’s Southtalks series, on October 13th Dr....
In 2016, Will Witt was a self-described “liberal atheist” college student at University of Colorado Boulder who...
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy.” Tinkerbell...
Photography by Gaetano Catelli Studios It’s official. The building that since 1995 has been named after Ole...
“I love the poorly educated!” ~Donald Trump after winning the 2016 Nevada GOP Caucus.* I was personally blamed...
“[D]espite its relative poverty and small population, Scottish culture had a built-in bias toward reading, learning, and...
In the first edition of this column (ie, “Rock Around the Clock”), I wrote about my earliest...
July 1 was a bright sunny day in Oxford’s Square. Robyn Tannehill and the seven aldermen were...
Donald Cook struggled courageously against several physical ailments for much of his adult life. These struggles ended...
It was love at first listening when, at age 6, I heard the words “In Dixie’s land...