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What do a former taxi driver; the son of a Baptist preacher; a New Orleans chef who’s started a farm in Pearlington (MS); a “military brat” and immigrant from Okinawa; one of the few remaining New Orleans’ residents of the batture on the Mississippi River (Look it up!); a major Emmy award-winning TV director (Meet the Press) from Washington, D.C.; a grand-daughter whose family confronted the Hungarian Holocaust; another chef who was the food consultant during filming of the movie, The Help; an expert on the folklore and cultural history of the song, Li’l Liza Jane; another expert on the Brown Pelican; and a writer who studied under one of the most gifted American authors, Toni Morrison, while at Princeton – all have in common?

Coast Episcopal School’s (CES) Gail Keenan Art Center (GKAC) will feature the South Mississippi High School Art Exhibit beginning January 19. The show, curated by Gulf Coast artist Ann Dinwiddle Madden, with continue through February 8. It will be followed by “Call of the Coast,” also curated by Madden, which will begin February 23 and…

Lenwood Sawyer of Long Beach, a freshman majoring in biochemistry at the University of Mississippi, was named an Ole Miss First scholar this fall.

Students selected for the scholarship …

Submariners make up only ten percent of the U.S. Navy’s personnel, but they play a critical role in carrying out one of the Defense Department’s most important missions: strategic …