Oct. 27 MEMORY BANK

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Dateline 1985 — Coast tourism was attracting the curious

Rick Haygood, departing assistant director of the Harrison County Tourism Commission, disclosed that “we are receiving 1,700 tourist inquiries a week, and our best results are from our ads in Family Circle magazine.” Also attracted by the ads was writer Alison Kahn from the National Geographic’s magazine, “Traveler,” who was on the Coast that week with this promise: “If the prospects for a story about Mississippi Coast tourism pan out, then another writer will come down for the in-depth detail work,” thus proving that a story worth writing is worth putting two heads together. (We will watch for the story — any year now.)

Sun Herald Memory Bank archives are researched and compiled by retired staff writer Jimmie Bell, whose reporting career at The Daily Herald and The Sun Herald spanned 30 years. Jimmie Bell is editor of Bell’s Letters poetry magazine, published in Gulfport. E-mail, jimbelpoet@aol.com.