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LYDEL SIMS’ “ASSIGNMENT: MEMPHIS” COLUMNS IN COMMERCIAL APPEAL THROUGHOUT MAY ’18

May 6, 2018 By Lawrence Wells

In today’s Commercial Appeal Viewpoint section you’ll find Pat Sims’ affectionate reminiscence of her father Lydel Sims’ storied CA career (1949-1995) as Sunday front page columnist. For the rest of May the Commercial Appeal and Yoknapatawpha Press will present one of Lydel Sims’ classic “Assignment: Memphis” humor columns each day. ENJOY!

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/opinion/contributors/2018/05/04/opinion-my-fathers-ironic-and-loving-eye-memphis/569803002/

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/opinion/contributors/2018/05/04/assignment-memphis-nyc-discovers-iced-tea/572616002/

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POWERHOUSE PUBLISHED AS E-BOOK

April 23, 2018 By Lawrence Wells

Yoknapatawpha Press announces its latest eBook publication. Powerhouse: The Meek School at Ole Miss, by Ronald Farrar, is now available at $4.95 from major eBook distributors including Kindle and Barnes and Noble.

ABOUT THE BOOK: Powerhouse: The Meek School at Ole Miss is a history of the journalism department at the University of Mississippi from its humble beginnings in 1946 to the present Meek School of Journalism and New Media. Dr. Gerald Forbes was the founding chairman, and j-school alumnus Ed Meek did much to propel it toward the top tier in its field.

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Commercial Appeal: 1962 Ole Miss riot and news media’s vital role, then and now

September 11, 2017 By Yoknapatawpha Press

It was 55 years ago this month that the University of Mississippi campus was engulfed in a riot when James Meredith sought to enroll in the state’s flagship university.

Segregationists from around the South had descended on the campus and a riot ensued. More than 300 reporters traveled to Oxford to cover the story.

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Founded in 1975, Yoknapatawpha Press is a southern regional press owned and operated by co-publishers, Lawrence Wells and the late Dean Faulkner Wells. Most of the press's projects are generated in-house.The company is named for William Faulkner's fictional county, Yoknapatawpha, from the Chickasaw word meaning "gentle water."

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