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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.

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12:14

Keep the 2% Tax Out of Carpenter's Grubby Mitts

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/09/07

Carpenter's got her money to finish the work at the Tennessee Williams home, and now she needs to fund her lavish spending habits. How will she do that? Write grants? Kick off a Capital Campaign? Nope, she will always go for low hanging fruit...she will see the 2% tax as hers to take a sizable cut out of and use at her leisure...Mark my words that she has it in her cross hairs. Who has the guts to stand up to her and say "Enough is Enough!"?

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53:49

More Small Town Corruption: Misuse of Public Funds by...

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/09/06

Nancy Carpenter went to the MDAH Grant Training in Jackson on Foundation business with Foundation President Brenda Willis and CVB Board Member Rissa Lawrence and charged the hotel to the CVB credit card without the CVB Board's approval or knowledge.

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16:53

Small Town Corruption: Nancy Carpenter's Messes

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/09/03

Did Carpenter lie to the city council about getting $100,000 from the Heritage Hills Alliance? If so, what else has she lied about? And about those CVB credit card statements, Ms. Carpenter...

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10:32

Leave Her to Heaven - Sarah Ames Patty and Ben Ames...

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/08/25

Is the femme fatale in Ben Ames Williams' Leave Her to Heaven inspired loosely by his first cousin Sarah Ames Patty of Macon, Mississippi?

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14:08

Nancy Luke Carpenter Lied to the City Council and...

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/08/22

Carpenter told the City Council she still needs $54, 069.69 match share for the MDAH grant; however, when she sent in the grant she told the grant coordinator Divvya Pai that she had the grant match. Prior to beginning work in late April of 2024 Carpenter submitted a bank statement showing the matching share in the Foundation's bank account. Oh the tangled webs she weaves when at the City Council meeting she deceives.

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48:59

Rot - Nancy Luke Carpenter and her Continued Neglect...

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/08/17

Carpenter has absolutely lied about the issues at the Tennessee Williams her neglect has caused. I recently did a public records request of the MDAH grants to the building and the problems the structural engineers have uncovered...that Carpenter has failed to reveal to the City as she asks for a matching grant to put lipstick on her pig.

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11:54

Nancy Luke Carpenter Annual Car Wash and Bake Sale to...

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/08/09

It’s that time of year again, folks! It is time for the annual Columbus Cultural Foundation to demand funding from the Columbus Convention and Visitor’s Bureau. Yes, here they are again, a 501C3 holding their hand out again for 100K+ to solely fund their foundation again…with zero oversight and zero transparency of where last year’s 100K went. Yes, fellow citizens of Columbus, your tax dollars were distributed blindly to the Columbus boondoggle called the Columbus Cultural Heritage Foundation (CCHF)

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32:10

The Bumbling Bamboozler - A History of Incompetence

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/08/03

A report was formerly sent to the State Auditor's office on the malfeasance and incompetence of former CVB Director Nancy Luke Carpenter. The content validates much of Tombigbee Tales' research. This should make every Lowndes County resident get angry and call the CVB and demand they NOT fund the Columbus Cultural Heritage Foundation.

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10:36

The Amzi Love Home in Columbus, MS

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/07/31

The Amzi Love Home in Columbus, MS was built by Amzi Love as a gift to his bride Edith Wallace. It has remained in the family for over 5 generations. It is open for tours by appointment.

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15:00

The Ghosts in the Cicero Lincoln Home in Columbus, MS

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/07/27

The Lincoln Home is one of the earlier homes built in Columbus. It is a raised cottage style Gothic/Greek Revival Home. It also is haunted by at least four different former residents.

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11:26

Tennessee Williams Birthplace in Total Disrepair

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/07/12

Nancy Luke Carpenter and the Board of the Columbus Cultural Heritage Foundation have allowed the birthplace of Tennessee Williams to fall in utter disrepair. Please email the board and tell them to remove Carpenter as CEO and to do the right thing to repair the building and to be transparent in their actions.Board President Brenda Willis: willisbw66@aol.com Treasurer Sonic Johnson: sonic.johnson77@gmail.com

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05:57

The Tombigbee River and the Underground Railroad:...

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/07/10

The Tombigbee River was the path to freedom for many escaped enslaved people. Their directions were found in a folk song: Follow the drinkin' gourd Follow the drinkin' gourd For the old man is comin' just to carry you to freedom Follow the drinkin' gourd When the sun comes back, and the first quail calls Follow the drinkin' gourd For the old man is waiting just to carry you to freedom Follow the drinkin' gourd Follow the drinkin' gourd Follow the drinkin' gourd For the old man is waiting to carry

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27:29

Mississippi Black Belt Prairie Blues

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/07/09

It was in this Black Belt Prairie impoverished environment that many great Blues musicians rose to prominence.

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09:58

Hickory Sticks and the Valentine's Day Ghost -...

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/07/07

Hickory Sticks is one of the oldest homes if not the oldest home still in existence in Columbus, MS. Built between 1815-1820, the home has a spectral visitor during Valentines each year. Who is it and why is he insistent on going upstairs to bed every year?

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08:19

The Ghost Rider of Wisteria Place in Columbus, MS

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/07/05

Wisteria Place has a man who walks up the road out of the foggy mist of early morning leading a horse carrying a man in confederate gray bent over the saddle. They disappear once they turn in the back drive. Who are they?

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10:10

Ghost Hunting at the Princess Theatre in Columbus, MS

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/07/04

The Princess Theatre in Columbus, MS is known for significant paranormal activity. It is thought to be Mr. Kuykendal, the former president of the Motion Pictures Theater Owners of America from 1932 until his death in 1946.

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07:13

The Ghost of Henry Betts at the Lowndes County...

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/07/01

Henry Betts' execution at the Lowndes County Courthouse was botched. He was a large Black man who was accused of murder. He weighed over 300 lbs and stood 6'6" tall. He was most probably railroaded into a conviction. He "confessed" to save his brother.

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10:15

Charles Baskerville - Columbus Born Discoverer of...

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/06/30

Charles Baskerville, chemist and college professor, was born (1870) at Deerbrook, Noxubee County, Mississippi, the son of Charles Baskerville, a physician and former CSA captain, and his wife, Augusta Johnson. He was educated in Columbus, MS. and raised by his paternal grandparents. Charles would lay claim to the discovery of two chemical elements.

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13:03

Reverend Pleasant Bowler and the First All African...

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/06/29

Pleasant Bowler was a scam artist and flim flam man who posed as a Baptist minister and helped found the Shiloh Baptist Church in Burns Bottom in Columbus, Mississippi after the Civil War. He murdered Sheriff Cline in a struggle and was brought before a Reconstruction Era Judge from Ohio and an all Black male jury in the Lowndes County Courthouse in 1869. This jury is alleged to be the first all Black jury in US history.

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07:50

The Tennessee Williams is on the Brink of Structural...

Tombigbee Tales ·

2024/06/19

The Tennessee Williams building has been so neglected under the reign of Nancy Luke Carpenter that the floor joists are completely rotted under the building and so all renovations are at a complete standstill.

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