More on Mississippi

I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your article on Oxford, Miss. (“Southern Sanctuary,” March 12). Should you be back that way, I would make some suggestions: First, visit the building not far from the Student Union at Ol’ Miss to see the stained-glass window in memorial to the “Mississippi Grays,” a Confederate unit from the university whose members all died at Gettysburg. Second, if you should return to Holly Springs, have a hamburger at Phillips Grocery Store “out by the railroad tracks”--once listed by USA Today as having the best hamburgers in the country. Finally, on your drive from Memphis to Oxford on Highway 78, between Olive Branch and Byhalia, take the Ingram Mills Exit and go 6.3 miles south on Red Banks Road, then enjoy a great catfish dinner at the Chatterbox.

JOHN C. SIMS JR.

Dana Point

After encountering white revelers in Confederate uniform in a bar in Oxford, Christopher Reynolds wrote: “With restraint astonishing to a Californian, the bar’s handful of black customers waited quietly and patiently for the retro-soldiers, some of whom had come from neighboring states, to finish and leave.” I am not surprised that someone who is probably accustomed to California’s race riots and racially motivated assaults would find racial tolerance “astonishing.”

LAWRENCE FAFARMAN

Los Angeles