The Webb School - Guest Rental and Artists' Retreat

06/01/2022

We're so grateful for all of you who stayed, visited, wrote, played music, broke bread with us and danced at parties at the Webb Schoolhouse. It was an epic two decades!

02/17/2021

Talk of the Town - February 2021: The new Secretary of Transportation could be a crucial ally in the decades long effort to restore passenger train service between New Orleans and Mobile. - by Dena Temple

08/30/2020

For the 15th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Kat Fitzpatrick and I came together to pay a private tribute to those lost and to celebrate those who came to our aid. We began harmonizing together during the long recovery to help along our healing. We haven't sung together for a while, but it brought us joy to do so this morning.

Afterward, we thought some of you might want to tap in to that same place of gratitude with an a capella version of a song we know as "Encourage My Soul." We recorded the song on a phone in my living room and used it to make this little video.

The photographs are by Joe Tomasovsky and myself (Ellis). Most were published in the University Press of Mississippi book "Under Surge, Under Siege, the Odyssey of Bay St. Louis and Katrina" and are covered by the book's copyright: https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/U/Under-Surge-Under-Siege

As Kat and I sang, Hurricane Laura was still thrashing its way across the country, after smashing through south Louisiana/Texas. Unfortunately, natural disasters occur often in this world, leaving thousands of people in need 24/7/365. If you're in a position to give, please reach out when you're moved, and donate or volunteer your time through your favorite charity. Survivors never forget a kindness offered in times of distress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Cmnh3DXLI&feature=youtu.be

The communities of Bay St. Louis and Waveland on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi were "ground zero" for Hurricane Katrina in 2005. An unprecedented storm surge...

08/30/2020

For the 15th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Kat Fitzpatrick and I came together to pay a private tribute to those lost and to celebrate those who came to our aid. We began harmonizing together during the long recovery to help along our healing. We haven't sung together for a while, but it brought us joy to do so this morning.

Afterward, we thought some of you might want to tap in to that same place of gratitude with an a capella version of a song we know as "Encourage My Soul." We recorded the song on a phone in my living room and used it to make this little video.

The photographs are by Joe Tomasovsky and myself (Ellis). Most were published in the University Press of Mississippi book "Under Surge, Under Siege, the Odyssey of Bay St. Louis and Katrina" and are covered by the book's copyright: https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/U/Under-Surge-Under-Siege

As Kat and I sang, Hurricane Laura was still thrashing its way across the country, after smashing through south Louisiana/Texas. Unfortunately, natural disasters occur often in this world, leaving thousands of people in need 24/7/365. If you're in a position to give, please reach out when you're moved, and donate or volunteer your time through your favorite charity. Survivors never forget a kindness offered in times of distress.

Winner of the 2010 Eudora Welty Book Prize and the Mississippi Library Association's Nonfiction Author's Award for 2011, Under Surge, Under Siege shows how Hurricane Katrina tore into Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, ...

02/16/2020

The Eyes Have It - February 2020: ​In this series of photo essays, the Shoofly Magazine showcases the work of professional photographers. Their only instructions? Show us the coast through your lens.

12/08/2019

15 Minute Photo Gallery: Santa and his helpers, a fun-loving Grand Marshall, the Bay High Marching Band, the Raw Oyster Marching Club, the Bay Ratz Marching Battery and SNOW! Well, sort of. A machine spouting foamy flakes gave Mississippi Coast childre

11/29/2019

Talk of the Town, November 2019: The Rihner family of Necaise Avenue takes pride in being the biggest – and brightest – Christmas display in the Bay. - Story by Lisa Monti, photos by Ellis Anderson

09/06/2019

The Shoofly Magazine staff's pick of events in the Bay-Waveland area - with all the juicy details. We update this list each week, so mark your own calendars and share with friends! - by Denise Jacobs

06/23/2019

We were fortunate this week to host French Quarter celebs Margarita Bergen and Michael Langford. Already looking forward to the next visit!

05/14/2019

Talk of the Town:Avast, ye swabbies and scurvy dogs - don your swashbuckling finery and enjoy the parrrr-ty in the Bay St. Louis historic district! - story by Lisa Monti, photos by Ellis Anderson and Lionel Haynes, Jr.