* John Dye ( 1963 – 2011 ) Actor, ( China Beach, Touched by an Angel ) graduated from Tupelo High School in 1981.

Tupelo schools are served by the Tupelo Public School District.

That same video included an earlier image of what was suggested to be such a bird perching on a Water Tupelo ( Nyssa aquatica ).

Uncle Tupelo was inspired by bands such as Jason & the Scorchers and The Minutemen, influencing the recording of Wilco's A. M .. Tweedy and O ' Rourke enjoyed free jazz artists such as Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, and Derek Bailey ; they also listen to mainstream jazz by artists such as Miles Davis and John Coltrane.

During the war, the local Battle of Tupelo was named after the trees in the area.

Tupelo was incorporated in 1870 with a population of 618.

Part of the Tupelo-Gainesville outbreak of April 5 – 6 in that year, the Tupelo storm, which struck at night and destroyed large residential areas on the city's north side, was subsequently rated EF5 on the modern Fujita scale.

* Tupelo Community Theatre was founded in 1969.

* In 2005, the Tupelo Rotary Club sponsored a commission for a statue of Chief Piomingo, a leader of the Chickasaw people, which was erected in front of the new city hall.

The event was recreated at the eighth " Elvis Presley Festival " in Tupelo on June 3, 2006.

The 2008 Tupelo Golden Wave high school baseball team was ranked # 1 in the nation for 2 weeks.

As Lieutenant Governor he was presiding officer of the Mississippi Senate, one of only two 20th century politicians to chair both houses of the legislature ( Sam Lumpkin of Tupelo, Mississippi being the other ).

Their country rock sound was influential on many bands who played the Twin Cities circuit during the 1980s and 1990s like Uncle Tupelo, The Gear Daddies and The Honeydogs.

The sound of these bands was comparable to some Neil Young and their out-of-state contemporaries Uncle Tupelo, Dinosaur Jr. ( circa 1993 ), The Jayhawks, and Mule.

The Pike's final game of the season against the Memphis Pharaohs was played in Tupelo, Mississippi, because the Pharaohs had been evicted from their arena.

Seminal alt-country act Uncle Tupelo recorded a punked-up version of the folk song " John Hardy " which was more or less a cover of Gun Club's version.

Uncle Tupelo was an alternative country music group from Belleville, Illinois, active between 1987 and 1994.

Henneman impressed Uncle Tupelo, and he was invited to be a guitar technician and occasional multi-instrumentalist for the band.

Despite turning away from the style of popular alternative rock, major labels began to show significant interest in Uncle Tupelo after March 16 – 20, 1992 was released.

Tweedy was able to retain the rest of the Uncle Tupelo lineup, and created Wilco.

Wilco began rehearsing a few days after the final Uncle Tupelo concert, and by August 1994 they were in the recording studio for their first album, A. M .. Farrar asked Jim Boquist to join his new band, Son Volt ; Boquist was a multi-instrumentalist who had performed with Joe Henry as the opening act on Uncle Tupelo's last tour.

As the lead singer of Uncle Tupelo, Farrar's lyrics would be front-and-center during performances, but the band's musical style was mostly driven by Tweedy and Heidorn ( seen in the music's Minutemen-influenced start-stop arrangement ).

It's strange to hear Uncle Tupelo mentioned because what we were doing was in such a long line of musical history.

The 1936 Tupelo – Gainesville tornado outbreak was an outbreak of seventeen tornadoes that struck the Southeastern United States from April 5 to 6th, 1936.

Although the outbreak was centered around Tupelo, Mississippi and Gainesville, Georgia, other destructive tornadoes associated with the outbreak struck Columbia, Tennessee, Anderson, South Carolina and Acworth, Georgia.

The Gum Pond area of Tupelo was the worst hit.

Columbus is also served by television stations from the Columbus / Tupelo / West Point DMA, ranked No. 133 nationally

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Being forced to surrender at Island # 10, Walker was exchanged and rejoined the army at Corinth, Mississippi, before it retreated to Tupelo.

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