Try to solve this magnificent Coast mystery
History mystery time strikes again.
So what is the object of these photographs?
My camera and I went in search of another Mississippi Coast history mystery after having such fun a few months ago with a mystery photograph of the colonial cannons in Biloxi.
Interaction with y’all was lively and entertaining, and I hope for a repeat with this Sunday challenge.
The one thing I will admit is that the photographs today are not cannons.
Here are your hints.
What am I?
1. When I am at my best, I am “high.”
2. Some might call me an inanimate object, but that is only half true.
3. My very beginnings were observed and mentioned in a journal by the explorer Iberville, one of the LeMoyne brothers who planted the French flag on the Mississippi Coast in 1699. Yet, I am definitely 21st century.
4. Like the Harry Potter stories, my story is peppered with tragedy, loss, education and rising from the ashes.
5. I and my kin — yes, there are others — can be found within 7 miles of the coastline.
6. I and my kin can be found in Harrison and Hancock counties.
7. I was created from a natural substance, but some might say that my appearance today is unnatural.
8. I am magnificent.
What are your suspicions? Please e-mail me with your thoughts. If you must use the snail mail messenger, aka Mr. Postman, do it quickly because of the strict deadlines that all newspaper folk face. Lord willin’ and the creek don’t rise, the answer will appear two Sundays from today.
Hint: Could that last sentence include a clue?
Kat Bergeron, a veteran feature writer specializing in Gulf Coast history and sense of place, is retired from the Sun Herald. She writes the Coast Chronicles column as a freelance correspondent. Reach her at BergeronKat@gmail.com or c/o Sun Herald Newsroom, P.O. Box 4567, Biloxi, MS 39535-4567.
This story was originally published July 2, 2016 at 11:59 PM with the headline "Try to solve this magnificent Coast mystery."