Oxford, MS is a nice southern college town. It reminds me of both Chapel Hill and Charlottesville but is somewhat smaller. Because of the town square, it also reminds me of Sonoma, CA. Our first full day there was Thanksgiving Day, so the town was pretty quiet. Only a few restaurants and bars were open and most of them were closed by early afternoon. No stores were open, but many had signs to attract buyers to their Black Friday sales. We spent a good part of the day wandering the ultra-quiet campus of the University of Mississippi, Ole Miss. I’ll take this opportunity to say that MS citizens are very, very friendly. While on the Ole Miss campus trying to take a selfie, 4 young women came jogging by, stopped to offer to take the photo and squabbled among themselves over which of them was going to take the picture! Ole Miss was chartered in 1844 and today has about 24,000 students. The school made national news in 1962, when James Meredith became the first black student at the then all-white University.
running at sixty
exercising, eating and enjoying life in Miami (but not necessarily in that order)
