Oxford

"The Mississippi Exception"

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"Oxford MS is a lovely, incongruously eccentric little island. A mutation. A college town. A magnet for writers, thinkers & oddballs -Anthony Bourdain."

Parts Unknown

The Mississippi Delta 

Season 3, Episode 5

Source: https://twitter.com/partsunknowncnn/status/468206847917563904

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"Places are doubly constructed: most are built or in some way physically carved out. They are also interpreted, narrated, perceived, felt, understood, and imagined."

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-Thomas Gieryn

"A Space for Place in Sociology"

"Oxford has grown a lot in front of me. It's just changed a lot." 

"I would say Oxford and Mississippi are two different places. . . Everyone knows Oxford is different."