Friday, October 4 & Saturday, October 5
The 2013 Trash & Treasures along the Tenn-Tom is scheduled for Friday, October 4 & Saturday, October 5. The route of the massive yard sale starts at Pickwick Landing State Park north of Iuka, Mississippi, along Highway 25, including Burnsville, and follows the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway to Columbus, Mississippi.
Thousands of sellers and buyers participated in past events and you are cordially invited to be a seller or buyer, or just come to visit.
Event organizers report that “people can sell Trash & Treasures for pocket money or funds for civic or church groups. Individual or group collections are welcome. Place your signs or ads as you prefer, but please observe all ordinances about signs or booths on public property.”
There is no charge to participate in this event.
A map and listing of locations available for display are available free of charge.
For more information,
contact the Tenn-Tom Tourism Association at 800-457-9739,
or e-mail: Email: ttw@tenntom.org
2013 Conference – Aug. 27-30
When: August 27th – 30th
Where: Point Clear, Alabama
Hotel: Marriot’s Grand Hotel
One Grand Boulevard, P.O. Box 639 · Point Clear, Alabama 36564 USA – Phone: 1-251-928-9201
Schedule
- August 27 – Conference begins
- August 28 – Silent Auction
- August 29 – Golf Tournament and Shotgun event
- August 30 – Conference ends
Previous Conferences
View presentations from previous years
2012 Conference Presentations
- Tenn-Tom Network Appalachia: Access to Opportunity in the Global Economy of the 21st Century (PDF, 3.1MB) – ARC Scott Hercik
- Alabama Economic Development (PDF, 4.5 MB) – Hollie Pegg
- South Atlantic Division, US Army Corps of Engineers (PDF, 8.1 MB) – COL Ed Jackson
- Pace: Energy Regulation, the Economy, and Power Consumers (PDF, 1.5 MB) – Brown
- American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (PDF, 4 MB) – Ned Leonard, Vice President
- The Tenn-Tom Has Many Fathers (PDF, 1 MB) – Donald G. Waldon, Administrator
- USCG Aids to Navigation (PDF, 5.5 MB) – BOSN Ashley Gordon and BMCS Stephanie Garren
- Tennessee Economic Development (PDF, 5.6 MB)
- Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Conference 2012 (PDF, 7 MB) – CAPT Kenneth Ivery
- Tronox Limited: A Brighter Future – From the Ground Up (PDF, 6.2 MB) – Dick Dean
- Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway Development Opportunities Conference Mobile District (PDF, 10 MB) – William “Wynne” Fuller and Rick Saucer
- America’s Marine Highways Program (PDF, 4.9 MB) – Scott Davies, Office of Marine Highways
- Port Itawamba, Generating Regional Opportunity on the Waterway (PDF, 17.5 MB) – Deakle
- Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority (PDF, 10.2 MB) – Wayne Tucker
2011 Conference Presentations
- Climate Variation and Change in the Tombigbee Watershed and the World (PDF, 1.51 MB) – John R. Christy, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama State Climatologist
- 2012 Economic Outlook (PDF, 1.22 MB) – Dr. Scott A. Beaulier, Director, Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy, Troy University
- Nashville District Update for Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway Opportunities Conference (PDF, 1.18 MB) – Don Getty, Programs and Project Management, Nashville District
- Lowndes County Port (PDF, 754 KB) – Hardy
- U.S. Coast Guard Sector Mobile (PDF, 537 KB) – LT Carson, Chief of Waterways Management Division, USCG
- Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Mobile District (PDF, 613 KB) – COL Steven Roemhildt,District Commander, Mobile District
- Yellow Creek Port Authority: Fueling the Growth of a Steel and Composites Fabrication Cluster (PDF, 403 KB) – Bishop, Yellow Creek Port Authority
