Local Legends: A mastery of masonry
"Burns was born to Richard and Delphina “Della” (Jones) Burns on Nov. 18, 1871 in Oxford."
Columns
Mariupol and the truth of war
"What has transpired in the Black Sea city of Mariupol since 2022 is a story worth telling. As a scholar of propaganda, war and historical memory, Mariupol’s experiences since the full-scale invasion began speak to the horrific nature of this war."
Observations: The atomic age and me
"My father was a Japanese language officer, who interrogated prisoners and translated captured documents in the Pacific. He also went into Nagasaki after that bomb obliterated the city."
Media Matters: Wil Haygood – ‘Solo Voyager’
I first met Wil Haygood, a 1976 Miami University graduate, in spring 2013. He delivered Miami’s commencement address, beginning his talk with the trailer for “The Butler.”
On My Plate: Pecans
"Pecans were first cultivated in North America in the 1770s. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson had pecan trees on their farms in Virginia."
Two sisters and a flower shop
"It was something they could grow – and throw – their hearts into. That was 1977, when Oxford was bustling with foot-traffic, before shuttle buses changed the pedestrian landscape."
Local Legends: We Will Be There
"Although historical segregation was mainly associated with the American South, it also existed in Ohio, and elsewhere in the North, for many years beginning with the passage of a state law in 1848."