It is September, and schools across the USA are back in session now. Fifty-five Septembers ago, I left my rural farmland to attend college at the University of Mississippi. In terms of the seasons of the year, that was early autumn. In terms of the seasons of my life, it was early summer. You see,…
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My Home is in William Faulkner Country – Down the Yocona River from Oxford, Mississippi
Home of William Faulkner Rowan Oak – Oxford, Mississippi Image Credit – Wikipedia When I was an Ole Miss coed, my part-time job was that of curating at the William Faulkner house–Rowan Oak, in Oxford, MS. That was during the late 1960s and early 1970s–only a few years after the Faulkner family donated Faulkner’s home…