by Tracy Gupton | May 17, 2025
This year’s Roughneck Blowout, the annual reunion for all graduates of Columbia High School, has been scheduled for Saturday, October 4, 2025, at Heritage Hall. The Columbia Heritage Foundation Board of Directors has been busy ironing out the details for Blowout 2025....
by Tracy Gupton | Apr 7, 2025
By Tracy Gupton Babe Ruth set a new Major League Baseball record by mashing 60 home runs. Gutzon Borglum began work on sculpting Mount Rushmore. The first TV picture was successfully sent from Washington, D.C., to New York City. And many West Columbians gathered...
by Tracy Gupton | Mar 29, 2025
By Tracy Gupton Our neighboring town of Brazoria’s museum has its popular annual Santa Anna Ball. In 2025, some 189 years removed from the historic event, the Columbia Historical Museum’s Board of Directors is making plans to initiate a similar celebration with hopes...
by Tracy Gupton | Mar 25, 2025
By Tracy Gupton I have really enjoyed thumbing through the yellowed pages of the scrapbook put together by Mogene Clayton 100 years ago. My fellow Columbia Heritage Foundation board member Karen Rowold Mostyn was kind enough to loan me her grandmother’s book of...
by Tracy Gupton | Mar 6, 2025
By Tracy Gupton Funeral services for former Columbia Roughnecks Athletics Director and Head Football Coach Ed Derrich will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday, March 7, 2025, at St. John the Apostle Catholic Church, 807 Loggins Drive, in West Columbia. Ed, who is a former...
