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Secret Facts About
“THE SECRET COAST”
story courtesy of Coastal Mississippi photos courtesy of 100 Men Hall, Ohr-O'Keefe Museum, Mary Mahoney's Old French House and Shearwater Pottery
1. Founded in 1928 by Peter Anderson, Shearwater Pottery has produced art pottery, utilitarian ware, figurines, decorative tiles and other pottery pieces.
2. The self-proclaimed “Mad Potter” of Biloxi, George Ohr is considered an early leader in the modernist movement.
3. The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of
Art designed by internationally renowned architect Frank Gehry pays homage to the thin-walled, metallic glazed pieces of Ohr’s 19th century work.
4. Located in the renovated Mississippi City Elementary School, constructed in 1915, Lynn Meadows Discovery Center coffers 15,000 square feet of indoor exhibit space and seven and a half acres of outdoor play space.
5. In 2016, Lynn Meadows Discovery Center in Gulfport was awarded the National Medal for Museum
and Library Service, the highest Christian High in 1979. honor a museum can receive.
11. Jimmy Buffett, the original 6. The Peter Anderson Festival, Parrothead, was born in
founded over 40 years ago in Pascagoula.
honor of Ocean Springs potter
Peter Anderson, attracts over 12. The 1966 cinematic classic “This 150,000 people annually and Property is Condemned” was
has earned accolades including filmed in Coastal Mississippi, “Top 20 Events” by the Southeast starring Natalie Wood and Robert Tourism Society. Redford.
7. The 2017 Mississippi Gulf Coast 13. Mary Mahoney’s Old French Billfish Classic saw the swordfish House opened its New Orleans state record broken with a 242.54 style dining location on May 7, pound, 82.5” catch. 1964. The French House was
built in 1737 and served as
8. Cruisin’ the Coast, “America’s headquarters for the Louisiana
Largest Block Party,” is a festival Territory.
to celebrate antique, classic and
hot rod vehicles. In 2018, the 14. The Charnley-Norwood House in festival had 8,444 registrants Ocean Springs is a Louis Sullivan/ from 44 states, Canada, Germany, Frank Lloyd Wright original
and Australia. design, heralded as the first
Modernist home.
9. Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett
Favre was born in Gulfport. 15. Built in 1757, the oldest
standing confirmed structure 10. ABC news anchor Robin Roberts in the Mississippi Valley is
was raised in Pass Christian, the La-Pointe-Krebs House in graduating salutatorian from Pass Pascagoula.
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