The first ever Foxfire Blues Festival will be held this Saturday at Foxfire Ranch in Waterford, Mississippi. With performances from some of the biggest names in both Hill Country and Delta blues, the festival is sure to be a quintessential gathering for blues lovers of all of all ages and backgrounds. “I’ve tried to pick the best Hill Country bands and musicians so...
Author Archives: Austin Hille
SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT (BUT NOT IN NATCHEZ) 18-year-olds in Natchez now have to go outside city limits to buy cigarettes legally. According to WAPT News, the Adams County Board of Supervisors voted this week to raise the age for legal tobacco use to 21. The ordinance makes Adams County the first county in Mississippi to do so. Under the legislation, anyone who sells tobacco...
Recently, new University Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter made a tremendous step forward in attempting to contextualize the University Greys Monument. I applaud his move and I agree with what the plaque is currently slated to read. However, there are other people on this campus, namely the NAACP, who believe that this language is not “enough.” Though I may disagree with some...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A former UM student who federal prosecutors say placed a noose on the University’s James Meredith statue has his second guilty plea hearing at 11 a.m. today at the Oxford Federal Court. A federal court filing shows that Austin Reed Edenfield is scheduled to waive indictment and plead guilty to a criminal charge before U.S. District Judge Michael...
