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Tombigbee Tales

A Podcast about Columbus, Mississippi - Its scandals, eccentric people, and our version of Southern Hospitality...which ain’t always so hospitable. Pull up and let me tell you about Mama and them. Bring you some tea because we are going to sit here a spell and catch up.

society & culture places & travel

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05:32

Samuel The Jet Jethro - Baseball Great

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/11/13

Samuel Jethro was born in Columbus, Mississippi in 1917. Samuel would play baseball in the American Negro League and in 1944-1945 he held the record for most hits and most stolen bases. Recruited by the Dodgers in the National League Sammy would be named Rookie of the Year in 1950 and lead the league in stolen bases.

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03:59

Mother Love Bone's Andrew Wood The Godfather of...

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/11/12

Andrew Wood was born in Columbus, Mississippi in 1966 to David and Toni Wood. He would create the band Mother Love Bone and start a new movement of music centered in Seattle called Grunge.

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06:26

Roy J. Ayres - King of the Western Swing Steel Guitar

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/11/11

International Steel Guitar Hall of Fame Inductee and Seattle Pioneer of Western Swing Hall of Fame member Roy J. Ayers was born, raised, and learned to play steel guitar in Columbus, MS.

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08:59

Mary Ellen Weathersby Pope - W Girl, Educator, and...

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/11/10

Mary Ellen Weathersby Pope, Class of 1926, was the first student counselor at the W...and so much more. Her life's work was education. She died just shy of her 102 birthday.

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20:00

CCHF Director Nancy Carpenter and the Broke Unfunded...

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/11/06

The Columbus Cultural Heritage Foundation is broke. How will they keep the Tennessee Williams Birthplace and Welcome Center open? Why did Director Nancy Luke Carpenter reject an $81,000 grant from the Columbus Visitor's Bureau? The answer is obvious! The transparency requirements of course! How dare anyone expect Nancy Luke Carpenter to be transparent in her spending of public funds!?

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05:21

Dr. Marietta Eichelberger - Expert Nutritionist and W...

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/10/30

Dr. Marietta Eichelberger graduated from the Industrial Institute and College in 1912 and worked in the field of child and maternal nutrition for her entire career. She was the sister of famed biochemist Lillian Eichelberger Cannon.

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08:17

Dr. Lillian Eichelberger MUW Class of 1914

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/10/27

Dr. Lillian Eichelberger graduated from the Mississippi Industrial Institute and College for Women in 1914. She was instrumental in developing and testing synthetic quinine during World War II.

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03:20

Helen Rembert Carloss - Native Mississippian, Tax...

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/10/21

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32:11

Mississippi Author Julie Liddell Whitehead - W Girl...

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/10/18

Julie's first novel, Hurricane Baby about the life of Katrina survivors is available for purchase: Madville Publishing Barnes and Noble Amazon

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04:48

Neill James - Novelist, Adventurer, and W Girl

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/10/17

Neill James was a journalism major who graduated from the Industrial Institute and College (MUW) Class of 1918. She traveled the world, landing in Ajijic on the shores of Lake Chapala in Mexico and publishing her Petticoat Vagabond series.

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08:41

Dr. Elizabeth Lee Hazen - Mycologist and W Girl

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/10/15

Native Mississippian Dr. Elizabeth Lee Hazen, a graduate of II&C (Class of 1910) earned a PhD in Microbiology and Dr. Rachel Fuller Brown (Mount Holyoke) discovered Nystatin and two antibiotics. The women were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame posthumously in 1994. The royalties from their patent were used to fund a foundation to support women in research in life sciences.

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14:04

Father of the B52 Bomber Henry Edward "Pete" Warden

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/10/12

Pete Warden was a quiet farmer on the Black Belt Prairie in his twilight years, but what most locals did not know was that he was a distinguished WWII fighter pilot and aircraft designer for the US Air Force, designing the first long-range intercontinental bombers.

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08:46

The USS Cyclops, The Bermuda Triangle, and George Barrow

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/10/10

Columbus native George Barrow was not quite 18 years old, a seaman 2nd class, and off on his first South Atlantic cruise during World War I on the USS Cyclops. He and 308 of his fellow crewmen were lost at sea. The mysterious disappearance of the Cyclops has never been solved.

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05:13

Rosa Peebles and Edith Fahnestock II&C Alumni and...

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/10/08

Dr. Rosa Peebles and her life partner Dr. Edith Fahnestock taught at the Columbus, MS Industrial Institute and College before spending the rest of their career at Vassar as the respective heads of their departments.

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06:19

Robert Webb Banks, Sr. Civil War Soldier, Author, &...

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/10/07

Robert Webb Banks, Sr. was born in Columbus, MS to Dunstan and Lucretia Banks, early settlers in Lowndes County. Robert attended the University of Alabama before joining the Confederate Army after the Battle of Shiloh. Robert authored the most significant first-hand book on the Battle of Franklin (1864) published in 1908.

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03:54

Jim "Long Gone" Thomas Pro Football Legend

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/10/01

Hunt High School graduate Jim "Long Gone" Thomas played for the NFL and CFL for 9 years before becoming Tight End Coach at Ole Miss for fellow Columbus, Mississippian Coach Billy Brewer.

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03:28

Elbert Drungo Jr, Hunt High Graduate and NFL Player

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/09/29

Elbert Drungo Jr. born in Columbus, MS (1943) attended R. E. Hunt High School and Tennessee State University then played eight years in the NFL.

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06:21

Frances Ormond Jones Gaither - Author, Novelist, W Girl

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/09/21

Frances Gaither graduated from II&C (now MUW) in 1909. She is a forgotten Mississippi novelist whose work parallels Eudora Welty. Please remember to like, subscribe, and leave a review of Tombigbee Tales.

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06:47

Blanche Colton Williams - II&C Graduate and Hunter...

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/09/20

Blanche Colton Williams would graduate II&C in Columbus, MS and teach in Natchez and Grenada for about 10 years before being granted a scholarship for graduate studies from her Alma Mater. She would leave for New York City to attend Columbia University and earn first an MA and then a PhD. She taught at Hunter College for 30 years, chaired the O'Henry and Opportunity Awards, authored multiple books, and hosted salons with fellow II&C alumni and faculty in New York City.

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16:04

Wenona Poindexter: Consummate Music Educator

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/09/17

Thanks to the research of two fellow "W" researchers whom I greatly respect: Dunn, C. W. (2001). Women and music in the Victorian south: The music department of the Mississippi State University for Women under Weenona Poindexter. (Doctoral dissertation, University of Alabama, 2001) Dissertation Abstracts International. (UMI No.3038856). Pieshel, B. S. (1984). Loyal daughters: 100 years of the Mississippi University for Women. Jackson, MS: Mississippi University Press.

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