Hannah Tennis Courts at Avent Park Barry Hannah, a distinguished and admired American writer, was raised in Clinton, Mississippi, and lived in Oxford from 1982 until his death in 2010. He and Susan Hannah lie at rest in the nearby Oxford Cemetery. Well respected by students and teaching colleagues from the University of Mississippi, he loved family, friends, animals, the town of Oxford, and playing tennis on these courts. **This is the proposed wording for the plaque to be placed at the tennis courts.** “There was only one dream of himself that was ever pleasant. It was when he saw himself on a tennis court in a lush and heavy forest, the sun dropping into the flat rectangle over the tops of trees, yellow as lemonade. The court was the green of a new dollar bill. There was not a sound except for the breeze, a Delta zephyr.” ‐from The Tennis Handsome by Barry Hannah (1942‐2010)