On Wednesday, December 20, 2023, friends of Gaetano “Guy” Catelli gathered at Bryant Hall on the University...
Billy Joe Russell
Remembering Gaetano “Guy” Catelli and his lenswork. My search for shots of Oxford folks to be remembered...
Funeral Mass for local photographer and frequent Local Voice contributor Reynolds Russell, aka Billy Joe Russell, but...
“From 1983-1991, [Johnny] Morgan served as a Mississippi State Senator, and after that he was a county...
“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...
What difference does it make for someone in prison to have the chance to learn how to...
“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.”...
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy.” Tinkerbell...
“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...
It was love at first listening when, at age 6, I heard the words “In Dixie’s land...