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Pilgrimage at Bay today
The Mississippi Gulf Coast Council of Garden Clubs’ 42nd Spring Pilgrimage resumes today on the westernmost end of the Coast in Bay St. Louis and Waveland. General chairman there is Mrs. E. Evans.
Among places where visitors may have lunch is the Bay-Waveland Yacht Club on North Beach Boulevard in Bay St. Louis. Women of the club auxiliary will prepare and serve lunch between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. The cost will be $6 per person, and reservations are not required. Lunch also may be eaten at area restaurants.
►	Bay-Waveland Garden Center, 114 Leonhard Ave., Bay St. Louis; hours, 10 a.m. to noon •— Coffee, brochures and maps will await guests who will be welcomed by members of the Bay-Waveland Garden Club, who also will present a mini-flower show.
►	Hancock County Courthouse, 150 Main St., Bay St. Louis; hours, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. — Hancock County, formed in 1812, built its first courthouse five years later at a town named Caesar. The seat of county government later was moved to Gainesville, where the courthouse burned in 1853. The next move was to Shieldboro, now known as Bay St. Louis. The present Neo-classical Revival two-story brick building was built in 1911 to replace a wooden Victorian building erected in 1866.
►	Kate Lobrano House, 108 Cue St., Bay St. Louis; hours, 11 a.m. to
4	p.m. — Now the home of the Hancock County Historical Society, this tum-of-the-century cottage faces the courthouse. Originally the home of Katherine Maynard Lobrano, it was given by her heirs in 1988 to be the permanent home of the historical society. It is a two-bay cottage with an undercut front and side gallery of vertical barge board construction with lap siding. It features French doors at the entrance and along the side gallery. The interior 12-inch rough-hewn wall boards have been exposed and returned to their original state. The house, which is still undergoing restoration, also serves as a small museum.
►	City Hall, South Second Street and City Park Avenue, Bay St. Louis; hours, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. —: On land given to the city by trustees of St. Joseph Academy, the Georgian Revival brick structure was built circa 1905 by Gaston G. Gardebled, who later became mayor. A public park at the rear was added in 1916.
►	Home of Dr. Larry Heller and Lawrence .Timmerman, 314 Main St., Bay St. Louis; hours, noon to 4 p.m. — Named Halcycon House (which means "a little bit of heaven”), this home is on the National Register of Historical Places. The original cottage was built in 1840 in the chaste early Greek Revival style. In 1988, the current owners added 1,000 square feet encompassing a living room, master bedroom and Jacuzzi room.
►	Mr. and Mrs. T.D. Ashman’s home at 107 Lafitte Drive, Waveland; hours, open all day — Designed by the owners for easy living, this home is solar heated and has a solar hot water system. As visitors browse though the home, they surely will
PILGRIMAGE
take note of the three-sided fireplace, the revolving TV and the dream kitchen. There’s even an indoor swimming pool.
►	Home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Morrison, Bayou Phillips; hours, 1-4 p.m. — “Choctaw Oaks” is a new raised home designed by the owners and completed in October of 1987 by builder Carl Heitzman. The site is m acres on Bayou Phillips. A balcony encircles the entire home and widens in the rear to a large veranda overlooking the bayou. Featured throughout are examples of antebellum antiques from “Gloucester,” one of the mansions on the Natchez pilgrimage and home of Mr. Morrison’s Aunt Annie Morrison.
Friday
Mrs. Earl Hudson and Mrs. Louis Crawford are chairmen for the Long Beach leg of the pilgrimage which will be from 1 to 5 p.m. Friday.
►	Long Beach Garden Center, at Fifth Street and Burket Avenue — The Long Beach Garden Club’s home was completed in 1953 and is one of the few individually owned garden
club houses in the state. The club was organized on July 17, 1930, with the purpose of community development. One of its early projects was “A Mile of Beauty, ” along the railroad property east and west of the depot. Another early endeavor was the Municipal Rose Garden contest, and the city hall currently sits on the site of the original rose garden. A special feature at the garden center will be a show of art from William Carey College Art Department. Student works will be shown along with that of Hubert L. Barlow Jr., a Jackson native who heads the art department.
►	Long Beach United Methodist Church incorporates classic and modem design elements. Using a cruciform seating arrangement, more than 400 worshipers can be seated near the chancel. Tliree colorful faceted glass windows depict the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. A computer-controlled lighting system and the placement of beams and vertical batterns create and uplifting emotional ambience. The congregation came together in 1874 with a lot of faith and a little else. Their first building was a discarded railroad car, and children were taught under an old oak tree. They built their first church in 1879, and the congregation, now well over 100 years old, has weathered Reconstruction, yellow fever, fire, depression, hurricanes, tornadoes and wars.
►	Long Beach Community Church, 186 E. Old Pass Road,— The general design format is that of a small campus. The sanctuary is a triangular building with the baptistry at the apex.
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