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...first used by African-American settlers in the early 1800s--for his Rice University grad-school thesis. "But houses like the shotgun have strengths and character" as well as the potential, he says, to be prototypes for responsible modern living--and for rebuilding hurricane-hit communities on the Gulf Coast...
...show may zip theatergoers back to the '60s, but it was a different '60s. Back then, the Seasons were appreciated for catchy, danceable (or marchable) songs with tight, soaring harmonies. But the Beach Boys, on the other coast, were the preferred vocal group. As for the Seasons' lyrics, I guarantee nobody was parsing them to determine the romantic ache, handed out and absorbed, behind the perky melodies and simple rhymes. (It took the Beatles to bring together the '60s teen's high and low aspects: English lit and rock 'n' roll...
Very little is still standing or open in and around Pass Christian--once a vibrant, diverse Gulf Coast community of 7,000 or so, where golf balls and oysters now dot debris fields filled with waterlogged furniture, bathroom fixtures and broken china--not the Catholic church, not the local Wal-Mart, not the gas stations. But what is up and running--and what has given the Betz family enough hope to go back and rebuild their lives--is Coast Episcopal School in nearby Long Beach, which both of Betz's children attend and where she is a teacher...
...when Betz heard that Coast Episcopal was going to reopen in October, she made up her mind to head back. For now, the Betzes are living with her mother in Pass Christian. Ten days before Katrina hit, Orfila had moved into a small house at the back of the Betzes' property. The house was all but destroyed in the storm. But the unfurnished house she had moved out of and still owned needed only a month or two of repairs. Betz spent her final weeks in Sandestin shopping for furnishings the family would need in Pass Christian...
...would prefer to be on higher ground and, in any case, wonders whether the couple could afford the new insurance rates for waterfront property. They could simply buy and stay in Orfila's house. One thing is certain: wherever they end up, it won't be too far from Coast Episcopal...