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Here's a recent (5/14/08)
Christian Science Monitor
article about how the arts are playing a big part in the
revival of Bay St. Louis.
The Arts in Hancock County:
Did You Know...........
- Bay St. Louis was cited as one of the top three "Best
Small Art Towns in America" in USA Today?
- The Lumberyard is not really a lumberyard but an Art
Center with rented artist studios?
- Hancock County has its very own community public radio
station? WQRZ-LP 103.5 is operated by the Hancock County
Amateur Radio Association.
- Two local photographers have had "coffee table''
books published? Ken Murphy's "My Gulf Coast Home"
and Sandra Russell Clark's " ---" are beautiful
editions.
- Carter Church has (at last count) 108 Alpha Awards for
Haute' Couture which is more than any other single dress
designer.
- The battle of Bay St. Louis is chronicled by local
author Paul La Violette in his book entitled "Sink
or Be Sunk"?
- We have a mother- daughter belly dancer duo? Tribe
Banazar performs locally and regionally.
- The Gulf Coast Chorale has performed in Austria, Italy
and twice at Carnegie Hall in New York City?
- Legendary jazz musician, Pete Fountain, makes his home
in Bay St. Louis and performs twice weekly at Hollywood
Casino?
- A fabric collage created by Lori Gordon has been accepted
by the Smithsonian Institution? The work is entitled "Labat:A
Creole Legacy" and it is based on the life of Celestine
Labat who lived to be 104 years old.
- Bay Printmaking Studio is the only non-toxic printmaking
studio on the Gulf Coast?
- The famous historian Stephen Ambrose, who could have
chosen anywhere in the world to live, chose to live in
Bay St Louis?
- That noted costume designer, Carter Church, has received
an unprecedented -- Abbey awards for his creative carnival
gowns?
- The almost lost art of Spencerian writing, such as
evident in the Declaration of Independence, is still being
practiced by local artist Pat Wilson?
- That beloved folk artist, Alice Moseley, who died at
94 will live on in a museum dedicated to her?
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