Around University and Oxford, Mississippi
November 2019
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“Tell about the South.
What's it like there.
What do they do there.
Why do they live there.
Why do they live at all.”
Hotty Toddy
Gosh Amighty
Ghosts of Mississippi Burning
This house yells Hotty Toddy
Cultural Mecca of the South
Magnolia State of Mind
There is no Tom Cruise here
No game shows
The past is never dead, it’s not even past.
You had me at Hotty Toddy
Blues
Food
Writing
Trails
Football
There is more to Oxford than the big game
Hop on the Double Decker
Past never escaping us
British rule never escaping us
The pen and page
The ink
The novels
The poems
The short stories
The literary legacy is alive and well
Football and writing
The pens our footballs
The writers our players
The publishers our coaches
The page our field
The novel our game
Imagine Faulkner getting tackled
Imagine Manning writing poetry
“Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.”
History repeated
History repeating
History beating
Written history
Rewriting history
Our own histories
Controlling our histories
Denying our histories
Selected histories
History deep fried
Smothered in sausage gravy and etouffee
Embracing histories
History repeating
The past is never dead, it’s not even past.
Is history our southern identity?
Jim Dees broadcasting on Thacker Mountain Radio Hour
With the house band the Yalobushwhackers
Tigers and Rebels walking in the Square
Faulkner’s legacy with each writer after him
Yoknapatawpha
YOK-na-pa-TAW-pha
water flows slow through flat land
Jefferson
Lafayette
Chickasaw
Southern Gentility
Suits and khakis
Dresses and boots
Beads
Ties
Tie me up
Thai chicken salads
Oriental chicken salads
Rings
College Rings
High School Rings
Championship Rings
Engagement Rings
Wedding Rings
Divorce Rings
Freedom Rings
Burns Methodist Episcopal Church in Freedmen Town
Community Heritage
Larry Brown’s legacy just as strong
“Sunday just came down like a nine-pound hammer ... it was tainted with the closing-in feeling of the loss of freedom. Because after the sun went down, it came back up on Monday morning. And you had to go to work five more days. And it sucked.”
Traffic backed up for blocks on Lamar, University, and Jackson
Causes lost
Clauses cost
Tenders with Abner’s sauce
Did you get your library card yet?
Save water, drink beer
Cool ranch
Shrimp and grits at City Grocery with that amazing Original Grit Girl grits
Music at Proud Larry’s
Catfish cakes at Ajax with that jalapeño tartar sauce
Big Bad Breakfast bacon
Having a black and bleu burger while listening to the blues
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery
But it’s our history
You can’t erase our history
Histories repeating
The past has passed
Is the future recalling our pasts?
Where does the present fall into that?
Forging new legacies
Remembering the past
Misremembering the past
Reconstructing the past
Our collective memories
“Memory believes before knowing remembers.”
Caught caught caught
Our pasts are caught
The walleye is caught on the rocks
Our jack on the rocks
Our marriage on the rocks
Catch and release us from this hold
Although a fresh fish dinner can be the climax of a great fishing trip, more and more anglers have come to realize that quality fish populations can only be maintained if catch and release angling is practiced.
“Memory believes before knowing remembers.”
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