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Waveland man recalls . time spent with William Faulkner in Hancock
By BKJCNDA HKATHCOCK
Fans of celebrated Mississippi author William Faulkner do not have to travel further than Waveland to viait a place where he lived and wrote.
Market Street resident Ducre Bourgeios recalls with fondness the lime scent with Faulkner when he rented a house on Beach Boulevard.
Bourgeois said Faulkner lived In a house on the comer of Market Street for a couple of months around 1820.
?My cousin Edward Bourgeois and 1 met him one night as we were t>oing floundering along the beach in front of his house," he added.
?We Just * Lopped and started talking to him,? Bourgeois said.
"Faulkner told us he had left New Orleans and the French Quarter to get away from the alcohol,? he said.
"We told him we could get him some white Lightning and he said he would like to have a drink sometimes," Bourgeios said.
?So we brought him a half gallon of whiskey the next night," ISuur^eoii said.
Wo all drank some and my cousin and I slayed ihere until it was getting lime to go crabbing," he added.
?Faulkner was a fine looking man ui his lale 20?s,? Bourgeois said, ?but a peculiar fellow."
He went floundering with us a couple d times but it tea much work and too much walking for him," Bourgeois said.
?Sometimes when we left he would start writing.?
"You could always tell when he was writing because of the mess, the entire front porch would be covered with papers and books.?
?He would hardly eat anything and most times when he was writing he didn't want to talk to us or anybody else.
?But he never drank a drop of liquor when he was working, he just kept ' right on working.
?Once he wrote an entire book la three days.
Bougeois knows of only one book Faulkner based In the Bay St Louis area.
"He wrote one book about three young black boys leaving on a trip from Bay St. Louis to Memphis.
Bourgeois said ? Faulkner would have an entire table covered with paper with just little bits and pieces scribbled on cadi page.
??He never wanted anybody to know what he was writing and when we would come to visit he would cover everything up with blank sheets of paper," he said.
During all the time Faulkner lived by the beach he stayed by himself, Bourgeois said.
??No girlfriends came around and nobody but us visaed or talked to him," be added.
Bourgeois said Faulkner stayed in Waveland for a couple of months.
?He left while I was out of town and I never saw him a^am," Bourgeois aaid.
?I later read that be bad gone bscfe to Ole Miss," be added.
Although the bouse that Faulkner lived in was demolished in a 1M7 hurricane, the house now on the property is called Faulkner Heights.
Bourgeois and his wife Mane still live on Market Street, Just across the street from where Faulkner lived and wrote.
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