St. Paul's Episcopal Church

08/26/2026

Celebrating with the icon, Edwina “Mother Goose” Williams, on her 40th Anniversary at the Columbus-Lowndes Library. Mother Goose has been sharing stories, songs, stickers, and a love of reading and imagining with generations of folks in Columbus. We love you, Mother Goose!!

08/26/2026

Repping St. Paul’s at the MUW Involvement Fair - starting the year off right. Also, we set up next to Golden Triangle Theatre, because art is heart!

08/26/2026

Hooray Mother Goose!!

🎉📚 Celebrating 40 Years of Mother Goose! 📚🎉

Today, we are celebrating an incredible milestone: 40 years of Mother Goose with the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System! That’s right! Mother Goose began her long and amazing career with CLPLS on August 26, 1986, and 40 years later, she’s still bringing the magic of story time to our community! 💛📚

For four decades, Mother Goose has filled our library with stories, songs, laughter, and learning. Generations of children have grown up attending her story times, and for so many families in our community, Mother Goose and the library simply go hand in hand. Forty years means thousands of stories shared, countless little readers encouraged, and more special memories than we could ever count.

Mother Goose, thank you for giving so much of yourself to our library and our community for 40 wonderful years. We are incredibly grateful for the joy and magic you continue to bring to our littlest readers each week.

Please join us in celebrating Mother Goose and congratulating her on 40 amazing years of service! 🎉🪿📖❤️

📸: Pam Brownlee, Spring 2020

08/22/2026

Enjoy all the events for the 25th Tennessee Williams Tribute, but take special note to join us that Sunday for breakfast and worship at St. Paul’s.

We appreciate our newest sponsorThe Commercial Dispatch! Mark your calendars for these great events which are free and open to the public. Donations are appreciated!

08/20/2026

We now host the GTS practices!

Auditions next week!! Please come sing with us!!

08/12/2026

At the MSMS Activities Fair (it’s much more interesting on the other side of the camera)

08/03/2026

Join us this Wednesday for a brief Healing Service at noon.

08/01/2026

NOW OPEN! Fall Diocesan Youth Event Registration and Staff Applications - https://mailchi.mp/460dd8cda59f/save-the-dates-2026-2027-diocesan-youth-events-14192354

07/31/2026

Honored and blessed to have the Tennessee Williams Festival return its Sunday activities to St. Paul’s on its 25th Anniversary. See you there, one and all!

THE FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
All events are free and open to the public! Donations are greatly appreciated!

📍 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2026

📚 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | MUW & TWT’s 6th Annual 10:4 TENN National Playwright Competition Reading
Location: Columbus-Lowndes Public Library Meeting Room (Upstairs) | 314 7th Street N.
Details: Join us for a reading of the top three 10-minute plays from this prestigious national competition. A light lunch will be served, and the library will showcase vintage film posters from some of Tennessee Williams' most famous movie adaptations.

🎷 6:00 PM – Late | The Glass Menagerie of Words: Poetry Slam & Live Blues and Jazz
Location: Munson & Brothers Beer Garden | 301 2nd Ave North
Details: Celebrate Tennessee Williams' literary successes with performances by local poets alongside a live set featuring his favorite musical styles: blues and jazz.

📍 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2026

☕ 8:30 AM – 11:30 AM | Edwina’s Morning: “Coffee, Pastries, and the Roots of a Playwright”
Location: Tennessee Williams Home Museum & Welcome Center | 300 Main Street
Details: Enjoy light breakfast treats while touring the birthplace and first home of Tennessee Williams. Attendees will also experience an original vignette set in the summer of 1913, featuring local actors portraying Tennessee’s mother, Edwina Dakin Williams, and his grandfather, the Reverend Walter Dakin.
Performance Times: Three stagings of “A Little Pitcher with Big Ears” will take place at 9:00 AM, 9:45 AM, and 10:30 AM.

🎷 5:30 PM – Late | A Night in New Orleans: “Bringing a Little Big Easy Magic to Columbus”
Location: Ridge House | 571 Ridge Road (A historic antebellum home, lovingly restored and thoughtfully updated)
Details: Join us for a fun, relaxed evening featuring New Orleans cuisine, Tennessee Williams porch plays, live jazz music, and an antique auction!
Porch Plays: The Glass Marsupial, The Case of the Crushed Petunias, & Tennessee’s Leading Lady: A Tribute to Brenda Caradine.
Live Auction: Presented by Stevens Auction Company, with a portion of the proceeds directly benefiting the Tennessee Williams Tribute Foundation to preserve the literary legacy of Columbus’s most famous son!

📍 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2026
⛪ 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM | Grits & Grace: “Tennessee & Theology: Faith and Southern Fiction”
Location: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church | 318 College Street
Details: Enjoy a traditional Southern breakfast in the Parish Hall, followed by an extraordinary sermon by The Rev. Andrew McLarty in the sanctuary where Tennessee’s grandfather once preached—and where Tom (Tennessee) and his sister, Rose, were baptized.

🏛 Presented by: Tennessee Williams Tribute Foundation, Inc.
🤝 Sponsored by: Visit Columbus, Columbus Cultural & Heritage Foundation, Munson & Brothers, Catfish Alley Studios, Mississippi University for Women, Stevens Auction Company, Columbus Arts Council, Ridge House & John Klosterman Catering, The Southern Exchange, Main Street Columbus, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Tennessee Williams House Museum & Welcome Center, The Preservation Society of Columbus, The Columbus-Lowndes Public Library, and Friendly City Books.