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Beach Party on Main Street

  The Beach Party is back!  Come out to cool off from the summer heat at the Beach Party on Main Street in downtown Columbia, Mississippi on August 12, 2011 at 6:30PM.  There will be music, games, children’s activities and much more.  Presented by Main Street Columbia, Inc. the Beach Party is always popular with [...]

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Art Gallery Grand Opening

The Artwistic Revolution Art Gallery opened in grand style on the evening of April 30, 2011 with a large crowd of art lovers and artists enjoying food, drinks, music, and conversation.  The gallery, located at 216 Second Street in Columbia, is a project of the Columbia Artists Cooperative that features works in painting, sculpture, photography, [...]

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Bradford Pears in Bloom

The trees that line many of the streets in Columbia are called Bradford Pears, and they showed their blossoms briefly and transformed our town with snowy white flowers to introduce the Spring season.  The Bradford Pear is a subspecies of a deciduous tree from China and Korea called the Callery Pear.  The species known as [...]

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Artwistic Revolution

A new art gallery has opened in Columbia called “Artwistic Revolution” that features works of local artists that have banded together to create the Columbia Artists Coop.  Some of the artwork that is showcased in the gallery includes: sculpture, pottery, paintings, photography, digital media, pen & ink drawings, and more.  The gallery is located adjacent [...]

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Main Street Beach Party

Columbia residents gathered at the intersection of Main Street and Second Street for a good time and to cool off from the heat of a Friday the 13th in the middle of August.  Luck was on their side, though, as the pending rainstorm magically disappeared and allowed for the Beach Party to proceed as planned. [...]

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Like Mother, Like Son

The first open art show at the Second Street Bean Coffee Shop titled “Like Mother, Like Son” was a huge success on Friday, July 23.  Local residents packed the coffee shop and enjoyed some amazing artwork by artist Lisa White and her son Isaac White.  Lisa, who currently teaches Polymer Science at the Carl Loftin [...]

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The City of Columbia

The beautiful city of Columbia, Mississippi is the county seat of Marion County. It is located on the east bank of the Pearl River and has a population of nearly 7000 people. Columbia was named after Columbia, South Carolina and incorporated in 1819 as the fourth municipality in the state of Mississippi. Main Street in [...]

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