It’s not surprizing that the Visitor’s Center at Vicksburg is now PC. It’s that way at all the NPS Battlefields now, I understand. And it pisses me off to no end.
I worked with a guy from Vicksburg in Houston for several years. Great guy. One of my best friends is from Meridian.
Also, a large part of my family stayed in Mississippi for a generation or two in Atalla County as they were wandering across the South from Va. and N.C. before they eventually landed in East Texas. (Some of ‘em may still be there).
My Mothers family, a mixture of New Orleans Urbanites and S. La. Rice Farmers, had a summer home in Bay St Louis.
So I have a lot of connections to Mississippi and love the place.
I want to go back over to Biloxi and check out the restoraion of Beauvoir this summer. (I have a large print of the house on my Den wall) I dread seeing all of those beautiful homes and trees gone though.
It was devastation over 80% on US 90 from Ocean Springs to Biloxi to Gulfport to Long Beach/Pass Christian to across bay St Louis to Waveland where it continued on to the LA line.
a strip of from 200-700 yards completely devoid of buildings...many of the nice mossy oaks still stand and the old Catholic schools and a few other buildings but the old homes are gone. Beauvoir still stands....damaged but there.
I went through Camille as a 12 year old and while the intensity was worse with Camille, it was tight and fast moving ...Katrina was slow and larger...it will not recover in my lifetime..