A gathering of approximately 40 people filled tables, booths and stools at Circle and Square Brewing late Tuesday afternoon for the latest Craft at the Brewery event entitled “The Language of Place: featuring John Grisham Writer-In-Residence Jerriod Avant.”  Avant is a native of Mississippi hailing from Longtown, a small community near Batesville. He graduated from […]

  Roughly 20 guests, including local business owners and members of the Oxford Chamber of Commerce, gathered to celebrate the next chapter of the local business Velvet Ditch Coffee Roasters on Thursday, Nov. 7.  Owner Lesley Vance Walkington was a part of the group that broke ground at the future brick and mortar location of […]

  Tyler, the Creator released his eighth studio album “CHROMAKOPIA” on Monday, Oct. 28. Throughout his career, Tyler, the Creator has established a consistent two-year album drop pattern that typically falls on an odd number year — a sort of indirect promise to his fans for new music that they will not have to wait […]

Sometime in the 1950s, Oxford was deemed the “Velvet Ditch” — a nod to the notion that once you find yourself here, you never want to leave. This sentiment rings true for Lesley Vance Walkington, a former adjunct professor of philosophy and religion at the University of Mississippi. Vance Walkington is a decade-long Oxonian and […]