“Marion Hall, Blacksmith” Photograph by Michael Ford.
“There was a blacksmith here in Oxford named Mr. Hall, who had a shop on Tyler Avenue, the alley running down from South Lamar, in a space behind both The Gin and Ireland’s. He opened the shop after returning from shoeing horses for the Army in Texas during WWI. When I was in highschool and college, I would go and hang out in his shop, where Mr. Hall welcomed any visitors.” —Tom Freeland
Photograph by Michael Ford
