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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Episodes
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
Baskerville Manor is a gorgeous Italianate antebellum home built as a wedding present and eventually lost in a poker game. Here is a story about the lives of some of the people who once lived in this gorgeous home on the Columbus Spring Pilgrimage in Columbus, MS.
Monday Jan 01, 2024
Monday Jan 01, 2024
Daniel Baldwin (future father of a Confederate General) owned a tavern and was an excellent distiller of hard liquor in Columbus. He stood accused of selling alcohol to two enslaved men in 1855 by the state of Mississippi.
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
My friend Alan from Porch Talk Podcast talks Mississippi musicians, Columbus, and upcoming Porch Fest Music Festival during Pilgrimage this spring!
Saturday Dec 30, 2023
Saturday Dec 30, 2023
William Faulkner stole Cornell Sidney Franklin's wife back all the way form Shanghai, China. #knowyourhistory #williamfaulkner #columbusms #mississippi #visitcolumbusms #visitmississippi #oxford
Friday Dec 29, 2023
Friday Dec 29, 2023
Interview with the Cultured Bumpkin Podcast Host and Voice Over Actor Jake Philips of Columbus, MS #visitcolumbus #visitmississippi #mississippi #mississippiartists #columbusms #lowndescountyms
Thursday Dec 28, 2023
Thursday Dec 28, 2023
Leroy Shackelford was murdered by two slaves: Wiley and Dock near Crawford, MS. Aaron, an enslaved man, was murdered by his owner James Paul using a weighted wagon whip. #knowyourhistory #mississippi #visitmississippi #columbusms #mississippigirl #mississippihistory
Wednesday Dec 27, 2023
Wednesday Dec 27, 2023
How the Columbus Cultural Heritage Foundation and Nancy Capenter Plans to Profit off the Monroe Crypt "Restoration" #cvb #tennesseewilliamshome #visitcolumbusms #visitmississippi #restorationwork #thievesandcrooks
Tuesday Dec 26, 2023
Tuesday Dec 26, 2023
Gustavus Hendrick was accused of plotting the murder of Col. Thomas Townsend and Alexander Carter while at the home of Silas McBee (Liberty Hall). #columbusms #visitcolumbus #visitmississippi #knowyourhistory #historyisbrutal #murderforhirestory
Monday Dec 25, 2023
Monday Dec 25, 2023
Peter Stuart Hairston, Crawford native was a wealthy man working in Toronto, Canada on the Toronto Stock Exchange at his death. #murder #arson #fire #ColumbusMS #visitcolumbus #visitmississippi #mississippi
Sunday Dec 24, 2023
Sunday Dec 24, 2023
Dancey Blewett was murdered for messing around with a married woman... #mississippi #visitmississippi #visitcolumbusms #Blewett #mississippigirl
Fresh Spilled Tea & Truth on Tap
Shannon Evans is a Southern storyteller who works in the field of public history. She likes hanging out with dead people in and around her home state and tells their stories with laughter, facts, and the uncomfortable truths of their lives.