How to go: Columbus Pilgrimage starts Monday
Schedule: ■ Home Tours: $30 per person; $25 senior citizen/military; $12 Student (K-12); 10 percent discount for groups of 20+ ■ Double decker bus rides
A sacred space: An unexpected discovery becomes a special Pilgrimage tour stop
Grayce and Dewitt Hicks never set out to acquire a chapel.
Our View: Pilgrimage, including the whole story
Another Columbus Spring Pilgrimage has passed and once again we pause to thank all of those who helped ensure the success of one of our city’s most anticipated annual events.
Pilgrimage in black and white
For 75 years, Columbus has celebrated the history and architecture of its 19th century buildings during Pilgrimage, when homeowners give visitors a tour of the city’s most famous houses.
One chance to see some historic homes
In honor of the 75th anniversary of the Columbus Spring Pilgrimage, a number of houses not usually available to tour will be open from 1 to 6 p.m. today.
Flying bullets and famous nightshirts, the stories old houses can tell …
The singing woke him up, so one account goes. The noise, it’s been said, was enough to draw Jefferson Davis — then a candidate for the U.S. Senate visiting Columbus — out onto the second-story balcony of Snowdoun to see what was afoot.
Ask Rufus: Historical highlights of early Columbus
The first Columbus Pilgrimage was held 75 years ago on April 14 through 16 in 1940. A Pilgrimage guidebook was published that contained a section called “Historical Highlights” of Columbus.
A last Pilgrimage: After almost five decades as a Pilgrimage homeowner, Dixie Butler passes the torch
When Dixie Butler moved into Temple Heights in the summer of 1969, she had no way of knowing she would spend the next 46 winters and springs preparing the house for visitors to the Columbus Spring Pilgrimage.
Ask Rufus: The Columbus pilgrimage is 75 years old
It was 75 years ago that the first Columbus Pilgrimage was held.
City’s event calendar booming
Southern hospitality is about to be put to the test.
CVB readying for Pilgrimage
Members of the Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau convened for the last time this year Monday in a decidedly festive setting.
Carpenter: Spring events spike hotel occupancy
Participant and hotel stay data for events held during Pilgrimage and other events this spring continues to trickle in, and the numbers tell a success story.
Carpenter: Overlapping events helped Pilgrimage
Several overlapping events during this year’s Pilgrimage season helped increase ticket sales and hotel stays over the 16-day period, Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau Executive Director Nancy Carpenter said.
Our view: Catfish in the Alley
Catfish Alley — the one-block stretch of Fourth Street that is Columbus’ most visible historically black district — has seen many improvements in the past
Ask Rufus: Roots of the Columbus Pilgrimage
The roots of the Columbus Pilgrimage run deep within our community. In 1939, T.C. Billups decided to act on the success of Natchez and other Southern towns in using a spring pilgrimage to attract tourists and promote community development.
Revamped Catfish in the Alley set for Saturday
Catfish in the Alley returns, bigger and better, on Saturday as one of several special events that will kick off the 74th Annual Columbus Spring Pilgrimage.
Look at Catfish in the Alley grow
A special event in Columbus has been getting good buzz. On Saturday, March 29, Catfish in the Alley returns to the Friendly City for the 2014 Spring Pilgrimage.
Pilgrimage expanding after 2013 attendance jump
Next year’s Columbus Spring Pilgrimage will last 16 days instead of the usual 12.
Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitor’s Bureau Executive Director Nancy Carpenter told tourism partners Tuesday that plans to capitalize on the success of the 2013 Pilgrimage led to the extension.
Officials beaming over success of Pilgrimage
The 73rd annual Spring Pilgrimage ended Saturday, concluding what organizers say was the event’s most lucrative year in a decade.
Downtown buzzes with activity on ‘Super’ Saturday
It is nothing rare to hear residents complain there is nothing to do in Columbus.
Anyone who was guilty of making that comment this weekend clearly didn’t walk around downtown Saturday.