2+ hour, 27+ min ago   (708+ words) Ocean Springs occupies the 1699 site of Fort Maurepas, the first permanent French outpost in French Louisiana. That fact gives this small Mississippi Gulf Coast town more weight than its easygoing streets suggest. And because it sits on Biloxi Bay, just…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (694+ words) Oxford, Mississippi, is built around a university that opened in 1848, and the best reason to linger lies just beyond campus. Rowan Oak, the historic home where the Nobel Prize-winning writer behind the title lived and wrote, is open to visitors....

3+ week, 18+ hour ago   (593+ words) Oxford, Mississippi, puts William Faulkner’s former home at the heart of a visit, and that focus gives the town its pull. You can come for the university energy or the food, but Rowan Oak is where the story starts to…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (749+ words) Ocean Springs sits on the Mississippi coast where Fort Maurepas was established in 1699, the first permanent French outpost in French Louisiana. That long view matters here, because this small city has also had to reckon with the force of one…...

5+ mon, 19+ hour ago   (968+ words) The fog rolls in around 6am. It wraps the Victorian porches along Beach Boulevard in gray gauze, mutes the pastel shrimp boats at the harbor, and turns the Mississippi Sound into a mirror. By 8am the sun burns through and the water…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (834+ words) The wharf sits empty at 6:30am. Cool mist drifts off Biloxi Bay, softening the wooden planks where shrimp boats tie up. Two miles west, Biloxi’s casinos glow neon. Here in Ocean Springs, the only sound is water lapping against pilings. This…...