Leesha Faulkner

LEESHA FAULKNER

We have celebrated the transitions of two good men in as many weeks. They are a part of the Tupelo Story and we tell some of that in the Oren Dunn City Museum today.

About two years ago, the Rev. Charles Penson and I worked the counts one night for an election. A tall, slender gentleman walked through the room in the back of the Lee County Justice Center, just as I began to step outside for a breath of fresh air. Penson took the fellow by the arm and brought him over to me. I learned he was Sam Bell. He was the quarterback of the George Washington Carver Blue Devils when they won the championship in 1955. He had the trophy.

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LEESHA FAULKNER is curator of the Oren Dunn City Museum. You may reach her at leesha.faulkner@tupeloms.gov.

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