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Childhood memories, Gulfport Mississippi, Hurricane Camille, Hurricane Katrina, WordPress Daily Prompt Ode
668 East Beach
The Daily Prompt rolled through my inbox this morning and stated: “A place from your past or childhood, one that you’re fond of, is destroyed. Write it a memorial.”
Nothing stood out as I pondered this prompt, and then I remembered my Aunt Lulu’s stately home on 668 East Beach, Gulfport, Mississippi, USA. Gulfport was a long drive from the alluvial cotton fields of my Mississippi Delta childhood, and my father made that journey about once a year to see his sister Lulu Williams Anderson. Daddy was born in 1913, and I don’t remember how much older she was than he. I do remember that she sometimes seemed – (to me, the baby child of Aunt Lulu’s baby brother) – as old as God! Continue reading »
