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Hurricane Camille, is in a lighted blue niche behind the altar table. ORGANIST: Jeanine Bush; Hosts/Hostesses: Church members.
4.	THE OCEAN WAVES QUILTERS in the Parish Hall will display a variety of beautiful handmade items including new and old quilts, wall hangings and pillows. In their 6th year of participation, members have designed a special wall-hanging commemorating the 50th Pilgrimage.
5.	HOME OF MR. AND MRS. JOE INCHAUSTEGU1, 464 W. Beach Blvd. This contemporary modular design uses cathedral scale glass walls to frame panoramic views of the Gulf. A prized oriental cabinet forms a centerpiece to the living area with a loft above. Kitchen details include cherry cabinets with leaded glass doors, inlaid countertops and custom dental moldings. Mr. Inchaustegui, an Industrial Chemist, owner of Unikem International, is an avid shell collector. A separate room is dedicated to his world class collection.
6.	HOME OF VANEAN AND DUNNY GREEN, 230 S. Lang, is the only known house in Long Beach built by Carroll Ishee, a self educated building designer. Ishee was inspired by the simplicity of Japanese designs and by Frank Lloyd Wright. The house is of natural materials, and the lush landscape is part of the decor blending the outside with the inside. The home communes with the nature, flowing from the simplistic front entrance through to the back deck, pool and into the master bedroom suite. Landscaping is by Vanean, a local landscape designer.
7.	HOME OF ANDREA AND FRED FEENEY, 5017 Live Oaks Dr. This Acadian classic style home, built by Gulfport builder Milton Harris, blends character and regional charm with the -comfort and convenience of modem living. A gallery with balustrade spans the front and sides of the home. Behind the traditional exterior of brick and stucco is a modem floor plan designed by the owners with family living in mind. Wide cased openings between rooms combine with high ceilings to produce a spacious effect. Walter Anderson block prints and Shearwater pottery establish a sense of place and their collection of Depression glass acknowledges treasures of bygone days.
8.	HOME OF CINDY AND JERRY LEVENS, 20059 Pineville Rd. This unique home was designed by Mrs. Levens' brother, Architect Andrew J. Chandler, and received the A.I.A. Design Award in 1995. The home consists of 4 buildings connected by passageways on 2 1/2 landscaped acres. The living room is a tower with a cupola. The family living area has a soaring 28' ceiling with exposed trusses. The pickled cabinets in the kitchen are by Don Deschenes. The master bedroom is a separate building with its own-cupola and has a lovely view of the pool and gardens. Deschenes cabinetry is also featured in the master bath. A separate childrens wing contains 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. Artwork by Brenda Randolph and Mark Rediske decorate the home. A gazebo behind the pool features an old church pew.
GAUTIER/MOSS POINT/PASCAGOULA Sunday, March 16 -1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
OLD SPANISH FORT Pilgrimage Chairman: Anna Mai Jamison
1.	HEADQUARTERS AND HOSPITALITY CENTER, OLD SPANISH FORT & KREBS CEMETERY. Fort Drive, Follow signs from Hwy. 90 and Magnolia on the east side of the Pascagoula River Bridge. Noon to 5:00 p.m . Maps, brochures, refreshments and trolley service available. The Old Spanish Fort is the oldest existing building in the Mississippi
Valley. It was erected in 1718 on land granted by the Duchess de Chaumont, sister of French Admiral Joseph Simon de la Pointe. Marie Josephine, daughter of la Pointe, was married to Baron Hugo von Krebs, a planter, surgeon and inventor of a cotton gin. Kreb's Cemetery, where many of their descendants are buried, is on a comer of the grounds shaded by massive oaks and filled with azaleas. Hostesses: Pilgrimage Garden Club.
2.	JACKSON COUNTY WELCOME CENTER, I-10, one mile west of the Alabama Line. Maps and brochures available. Opened in 1984, this replica of a colonial style southern mansion, features two parlors furnished in antique period pieces dating from 1700. Hostesses: Moss Point Garden Club.
GAUTIER
1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Chairman: Aimee Gautier Dugger Hostesses: Gautier Garden Club
1. LA MAISON GAUTIER" (The Old Place). Comer of Oak St. and Hwy. 90 (at the bridge). Built in 1867 by the town's founder, Fernando Upton Gautier, with heartpine and cypress from his own sawmill adjacent on the high bluff of the Singing River. It is a West Indies style home with a hipped roof and square columned verandas on all four sides. Recently restored by fifth-generation Manager Hermes Quin Gautier, Jr., and owned by his parents. Surrounded by ancient live oaks and azaleas, the home attracts breezes from its cross ventilated French doors and windows. The original "punkah" (shoo-fly) suspends from 13' ceilings in the double parlor. Harpist Monita McLemore and Classical Guitarist Dr. Miroslav Loncar will entertain amid original family antiques and heirlooms. Singing River original pottery, historic displays and crafts will be demonstrated.
MOSS POINT 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Chairman: June Fairley Hostesses: Moss Point Garden Club
1.	THE OLD METHODIST PARSONAGE, 5000 Weems St. This Victorian Queen Anne house was built in 1872 at a cost of $1500 using lumber from a local sawmill. The home remains in 1872; original doors and windows are still in place. The ell housing the kitchen and dining room was damaged by fire in 1932; the back part of the house was remodeled, eliminating the ell. 43 pastors and families have lived here. Occupied by Mrs. Charlotte Johnson, Director of Programs, Dantzler Memorial United Methodist Church.
2.	HOME OF MR. AND MRS. CHARLES WEISS, 4806 Ridgewood Dr. This two-story home, completed in 1993, is the old Gulf Coast cottage style architecture with white columns, large arched windows, full porches and is set on the shores of Duck Lake at Sawmill Point. A view of the Pascagoula River marshlands can be seen from nearly every room but is most spectacular from the upstairs sitting room with its massive arched window and French doors opening onto a balcony. Art Glass of Mobile created the one of a kind leaded glass front door featuring a pineapple. The master bedroom has a king size 4-poster bed of pine with a unique canopy and a carved antique mirrored armoire from France. Among other antiques are a grandfather clock and a white iron bed.
3.	ST. MARY S BY THE RIVER - HOME AND GARDENS OF MR. AND MRS. JOHN P. STEPHENS, 3855 River Road. On the National Register of Historic Places it was commissioned by Sister Anne Abercrombie of the community of St. Mary, a monastic order within the Episcopal Church. The home built in 1925, with its hand-hewn beams, overlooks the Pascagoula River. The


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