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Gulf Coast Panorama
History of Mississippi Gulf Coast towns and communities -- $9
"Buy any 3 other books -- This one goes Free" -- But, not with Quadrilogy!
This Panorama of the Gulf Coast travels through the beach communities of Ocean Springs, Biloxi, Gulfport, Long Beach, Pass Christian, Henderson Point, Bay St. Louis, Waveland, � then visits the piney woods area � Kiln, Diamondhead, DeLisle, Pineville-Cuevas, Orange Grove-Lyman, and D'Ierville.Sun-Herald's book reviewer Nan Patton Ehrbright proclaimed that, �It's a great little book for Coastians to share with visitors who want a quick lay of the land." Gulf Coast Panorama -- a 66 page booklet presents the reader with a quick overview of the "String of Pearls" that makes up the cities, towns, beaches, and people along the 75-mile Mississippi Gulf Coast.
The book also discusses the people who have made this area so historically and colorfully diverse: beginning with the founders, the settlers, the Indians, the pirates. Just as the first Indians intermingled with the early French, English and Spanish settlers, so were the ensuing generations populated by the African-Americans, Swiss, German, Polish, Irish, Italian, Greek, and Slavic workers who were brought in to work the fish canneries and pine forests.
Even natives and longtime Coast residents are likely to find tidbits of information that they did not know or have long forgotten. The book is liberally sprinkled with photographs that best describes each community on the reading tour.
Ellis, a former educator and business owner, has published more than a dozen books in his heritage legacy series, and is a contributing writer to several publications and an accomplished public speaker.