The Historian

The Historian is the newsletter of the Hancock County Historical Society, and is mailed to our members on the 2nd Thursday of each month. Copies are available free of charge at Lobrano House, on Cue Street in downtown Bay St. Louis.

We also publish The Historian online, where you can admire it in color. Click on a date below to read.

(No newsletter is published in December)

• October 2024 PDFLegend of the Purple Lady By Kit Roth; Getting To Know You...M. Patrick Reeder and Tom Stone; Sink or Be Sunk...a play By Beverly Frater
• September 2024 PDFThe Livingston Family By James Keating, M.D.; The Battle of the Bay of Saint Louis By Eddie Coleman
• August 2024 PDFSeawall By James Keating
• July 2024 PDFKing of the Highway Bay St. Louis 1955 By Jim Schott
• June 2024 PDF Vietnam War III By James Keating, M.D. ; Mississippi Gulf Coast Historical and Cultural Exposition By Eddie Coleman
• May 2024 PDFVietnam War II By James Keating, M.D. ; The Kate Lobrano House By Eddie Coleman from Charles Gray.
• April 2024 PDFThe Vietnam War (1964-1972) By James Keating, M.D. ;
• March 2024 PDF History of the Bay –Waveland Yacht Club (1984-2023) By James Keating, M.D. ; Arbor Day in the Bay 2024 By Anita Warner; Mississippi Historical Society Award
• February 2024 PDF History of the Bay –Waveland Yacht Club By James Keating, M.D. ; Models of light houses built by Clyde Koerner, Sr . By James Keating, M.D.
• January 2024 PDFSt. Augustine Seminary Centennial Celebration By Jim Schott; 2023 Year in Review By Chris Roth, President of HCHS; The Christmas Party and Installation of 2024 Board of Directors
• November 2023 PDF The Twenty-ninth Annual Cemetery Tour By James Keating, M.D. Beverly Frater, and Eddie Coleman
• October 2023 PDFDedeaux—Fenton By James Keating, M.D.
• September 2023 PDFHistory of the BWYC (1896-1948) By James Keating, M.D., and Ginger Worrel Adams; The Orphan Train Movement By Eddie Coleman; The Mercy Train By Beverly Frater
• August 2023 PDFThe Koch Family By James Keating, M.D.; Old Federal Road By James Keating, M.D.; Frequently Asked Questions By Eddie Coleman; Mercy Train
• July 2023 PDFHistory of St. Rose School By Jim Schott; Mercy Train
• June 2023 PDFSteep Hollow 2 By James Keating, M.D.; What Floats Your Cardboard Boat; Mississippi Gulf Coast Historical and Cultural Exhibition ; Orphan Train Play autitions
• May 2023 PDFSteep Hollow By James Keating, M.D.; Did You Know? Beverly Frater; Getting To Know You...Bert Young
• April 2023 PDFCrane Creek By James Keating, M.D.; Second Saturday Eddie Coleman ; What Floats Your Cardboard Boat Beverly Frater; Safe the Date...Orphan Train play Beverly Frater
• March 2023 PDFSellers By James Keating, M.D.; Getting To Know You...Candee Canady By Eddie Coleman; Arbor Day By Anita Warner; Chili/Mac-N-Cheese Cook-Off By Eddie Coleman
• February 2023 PDFNecaise Crossing II. By James Keating, M.D.
• January 2023 PDFNecaise Crossing By James Keating, M.D. and Virginia and Charles Parrot, M.D., Editors; The Feast of St. Stanislaus By Beverly Frater; The Christmas Party and Instillation of 2023 Board of Directors; Hancock County Library System Annual Christmas Tree Contest
• November 2022 PDFAnnual Cemetery Tour Presented by the Hancock County Historical Society By Beverly Frater, Jim Keating, and Eddie Coleman
• October 2022 PDFFrank Heidelhoff By James Keating, M.D. and ed. Virginia Olander; Rum-Runners, Hancock County, MS By James Keating, M.D.; Moonshine, Marshmallows, Music, and Memries By Eddie Coleman
• September 2022 PDFHistory of St. Augustine Seminary By Jim Schott
• August 2022 PDFClermont Harbor By James Keating, M.D. and Virginia Olander, editor; A Mule’s World By James Keating, M.D.; Donation by Linda Falk Stalder ; Donation by Alfred J. Walker
• July 2022 PDFLakeshore By James Keating, M.D., Virginia Olander, Editor; A Memorial Tribute to Charles Gray By James Keating, M.D.
• June 2022 PDF100 Men Hall By Rachel Dangermond; Napoleon and The Rest of the Story... By Eddie Coleman; What Floats Your Cardboard Boat Race By Eddie Coleman and Beverly Frater; The Annual Mississippi Gulf Coast Historical and Cultural Exposition By Eddie Coleman
• May 2022 PDFAnsley II By James Keating, M.D., Ed. Virginia Olander
• April 2022 PDFAnsley By James Keating, M.D., Ed. Virginia Olander; Getting To Know You...Margaret and Al Saucier; Frequently Asked Questions By Eddie Coleman; What Floats Your Cardboard Boat
• March 2022 PDFGulfside Assembly, The Enduring Oasis By Wendy Sullivan; Russell Guerin Receives Award By James Keating; Arbor Day By Anita Warner; Getting To Know You...Lea Young, Ron Thorp, Michelle Breisacher
• February 2022 PDFFrom the Cotton Belt to the Sunbelt By James Keating, M.D., Ed. Virginia Olander
• January 2022 PDFAnatomy of a Creole Cottage By James Keating, M.D., Ed. by Virginia Olander; Private Donald J. Monti By Jacqueline Schorr; William Faulkner in Waveland By Eddie Coleman; Hancock County Library Christmas Trees By Beverly Frater
• November 2021 PDF
• October 2021 PDFWorld War II: The European Theater By James Keating, M.D., Edited by Virginia Olander
• September 2021 PDFWorld War II: The Pacific Campaign By James Keating, M.D., Ed. Virginia Olander
• August 2021 PDFLivestock Marks and Brands By Eddie Coleman; Pineywoods Cattle By Eddie Coleman; Interesting Things By Eddie Coleman; Cardboard Boat Race
• July 2021 PDFHenleyfield / Byrd's Chapel By James Keating, M.D., ed. Virginia Olander; Frequently Asked Questions (Communities in Hancock County) Compiled by Eddie Coleman
• June 2021 PDFAn Economic History of Antebellum Hancock County By James Keating, M.D., Ed. by Virginia Olander; The Evolution of Hancock County By James Keating, M. D.; What Floats Your Cardboard Boat By Chris Roth; The Smithsonian Institution Visits Waveland
• May 2021 PDFIn response to Days of Innocence and Childhood by Chris Roth in The Historian February 2021 By Dot Kersanac; Six Sisters By Kaye Karl; Getting to Know You...Kaye Dupuy Karl By Eddie Coleman; Mississippi Gulf Coast Historical and Cultural Exposition By Eddie Coleman
• April 2021 PDFThe Saucier Family By James Keating, M.D. and Virginia Olander, Ed.; Cassette Girls Charles Gray
• March 2021 PDFA Short History of Antebellum Pearlington By James Keating, M.D., Ed. by Virginia Olander; The S. S. Contessa By Chris Roth; Arbor Day in the Bay By Anita Warner; Prohibition and Hancock County By Eddie Coleman
• February 2021 PDF
• January 2021 PDFBayou LaCroix By James Keating, M.D., ed. Virginia Olander; Frequently Asked Questions (Name of Bay St. Louis)
• November 2020 PDF
• October 2020 PDFA Stroll through Cedar Rest Cemetery By Beverly Frater; Getting To Know You...Nicolette Murphy and Dr. James Codling
• September 2020 PDFCharles Le Moyne de Longueuil By Eddie Coleman; Spanish Influence in Hancock County Mississippi By Jim Codling, ThD, DEd; Website Journey By Virginia Olander; Footnote to History By Mark Isaacs
• August 2020 PDFLeetown By James Keating, M.D., Ed. Virginia Olander; 45 Day Trip in 1829 By S.G. Thigpen, Ed. Eddie Coleman; Getting To Know You Beverly Frater and Bryan Frater
• July 2020 PDFCatahoula By James Keating, M.D., edited by Virginia Olander; The Courthouse at Caesar By S. G. Thigpen, Ed. Eddie Coleman; Getting to Know You...Charles Harry Gray
• June 2020 PDFThe Moran Family and Their Heritage of Cattle Farming By James Keating, M.D.; Hurricanes of the Past By Charles Sullivan; Newspapers of the Past in Hancock County By James Keating MD; Getting to Know You...Michelle Nichols and Georgie Necaise Morton
• May 2020 PDFPortrait of Hancock County 100 years ago 1918—1920 By James Keating, M.D.; Migration of Those Who Settled Hancock County By Marco Giardino and Russell Guerin, Edited by Eddie Coleman;
• April 2020 PDFStennis Space Center By James Keating, M.D.
• March 2020 PDFThe Gaming Industry in Hancock County By James Keating, M.D.; Live Oak Tree Registry Honors Historic Post Masters By Shawn Prychitko and Anita Warner; Getting to Know You...Virginia Olander, Director of Communications; The Mississippi Gulf Coast Historical and Cultural Exposition
• February 2020 PDFHistory of Diamondhead, MS (2005—2020) By Jim Keating, M.D.; Carnaval and Mardi Gras Edited by Eddie Coleman; Dedication: Honoring Faithful Stewards of the Hancock County Historical Society By Virginia Olander, Director of Communications
• January 2020 PDFHistory of Diamondhead, MS (1969-2004) By James Keating, M.D.; Who Built the Pirate House of Waveland? By Russell Guerin; Pirate House Swan Song By Russell Guerin; The Christmas Tea and Installation of 2020 Board of Directors
• November 2019 PDFThe Civil War Naval Theater By James Keating, M.D.; The Twenty-fifth Annual Cemetery Tour By Eddie Coleman
• October 2019 PDFThe Civil War By James Keating, M.D.; Snapshots from Cocktails and Canapés
• September 2019 PDFPublic Education in Hancock County By Eddie Coleman.; The Gilmore Hotel By Eddie Coleman
• August 2019 PDFHistory of the Kiln (1933-2019) By James Keating, M.D.; Spring Branch Cemetery
• July 2019 PDFHistory of the Kiln (1840-1932) By James Keating, M.D.
• June 2019 PDFClermont Harbor...the birth and life of a town By Russell Guerin; The Lighthouse at Clermont Harbor Compiled and edited by Eddie Coleman
• May 2019 PDFThe Battle of New Orleans By James Keating, M.D.; Gulf Coast Historical and Cultural Exposition By Eddie Coleman
• April 2019 PDFAndrew Jackson and the Winds of War By James Keating, M.D.; Purser Thomas Shields
• March 2019 PDFPirates, Privateers, and Patriots By James Keating, M.D.; Jean Laffite Cindy Vallar
• February 2019 PDFLive Oak Trees By Shawn Prychitko, Anita Warner, and James Keating, M.D.
• January 2019 PDFThe Merchants of Hancock County by James Keating, M.D.
• November 2018 PDFFarming in the 20th Century in Hancock County By James Keating, M.D.; The 24th Annual Cedar Rest Cemetery Tour By John Gibson and Eddie Coleman
• October 2018 PDFFarming in the 19th Century in Hancock County By James Keating, M.D.
• September 2018 PDFBontemps, Sheriff of Hancock County By Eddie Coleman; Mystery of the Honey Island Swamp-Rat Killing By Eddie Coleman
• August 2018 PDFHistory of Hancock Bank (1963—2018) By James Keating, M.D.
• July 2018 PDFHancock County Bank (1899—1963) By James Keating M.D.
• June 2018 PDFThe Republic of West Florida By Eddie Coleman; Fulwar Skipwith By Eddie Coleman
• May 2018 PDFA History of the Sea Coast Echo By James Keating M. D.; 2018 Summer Youth Projects ; Seeking Oral History Narrators
• April 2018 PDFThe Seafood Industry in Hancock County (1960-2017) By James Keating M. D.
• March 2018 PDFThe Early History of the Seafood Industry in Hancock County By James Keating M.D.; The Gulf Coast Historical and Cultural Exposition By Eddie Coleman
• February 2018 PDFThe History of the Merchants Bank By James Keating, M. D.; Historical Society Project (mini-biographies) By Charles Gray
• January 2018 PDFThe Civilian Conservation Corps By Eddie Coleman; The Annual Christmas Tea and Installation of 2018 Board of Directors
• November 2017 PDFThe Timber Industry in Hancock County (1930-2017) By James Keating, M.D.; Annual Cemetery Tour Presented by the Hancock County Historical Society By Eddie Coleman
• October 2017 PDFLumber Barons of Hancock County By James Keating, M.D.
• September 2017 PDFThe Hotels of Bay St. Louis By Eddie Coleman
• August 2017 PDFRailroad Empire (1870-1900) By James Keating, M.D.
• July 2017 PDFA Maritime History of Hancock County (1830-1870): The Steamboat Era By James Keating, M.D.; Steamboat Explosions; By Eddie Coleman
• June 2017 PDFA Maritime History of Hancock County 1820-1860: The Era of Sailing Ships By James Keating, M.D.; Mississippi Timeline 1798-1859
• May 2017 PDFThe Journal of Benjamin L. C. Wailes (Part 2) Ed. Eddie Coleman; Mississippi Married Women's Property Act of 1839 By Eddie Coleman
• April 2017 PDFThe Journal of Benjamin L. C. Wailes (Part I) Ed. Eddie Coleman; The Bricks at Tercentenary Park By James Keating, M.D. and Eddie Coleman; Mississippi Bicentennial Celebration South
• March 2017 PDFProfile of a Young Hancock County (1811-1820) By James Keating, M.D.
• February 2017 PDFBirth of Hancock County (1811-1820) By James Keating, M.D.
• January 2017 PDFEuropean Colonization of the Mississippi Gulf Coast during the Eighteenth Century By James Keating, M.D.; The Annual Christmas Tea and Installation of 2017 Board of Directors
• November 2016 PDFThe Twenty-second Annual Cemetery Tour Presented by the Hancock County Historical Society By Eddie Coleman
• October 2016 PDF"Once Upon a Midnight Dreary..." and A Ghost in the Courthouse? ed by Eddic Coleman; A Waveland Ghost ed. by Eddie Coleman; Ghost of the Pirate House ed. by Eddie Coleman; A Brief History of Cedar Rest Cemetery ed. by Eddie Coleman
• September 2016 PDFThe Kings Daughters and Sons Emergency Hospital By James Keating, M.D.
• August 2016 PDFGerman Submarine Activity in the Gulf of Mexico in World War II By Eddie Coleman; U-Boats in the Gulf By Russell Guerin; Center/Caesar By Eddie Coleman
• July 2016 PDFThe Dairy and Cattle Industries in Hancock County in the Twentieth Century By Eddie Coleman
• June 2016 PDFJ. F. H. Claiborne - Gentleman Planter Or Confederate Yankee? By Eddie Coleman
• May 2016 PDFThe Mural Project By Eddie Coleman; The Works Progress Administration and the Hancock County Library By Eddie Coleman
• April 2016 PDFThe Turpentine Industry in Hancock County By James Keating, MD; Charles Gray Receives the Dunbar Rowland Award
• March 2016 PDFHenry Jetton Tudury By Eddie Coleman; History Week in Biloxi By Eddie Coleman
• February 2016 PDFThe Progress of the Races Compiled and edited by Eddie Coleman
• January 2016 PDFThe History of the Hancock County Port and Harbor Commission (1979-2015) By James Keating, M.D.; Christmas Tea and Installation of 2016 Board of Directors By Eddie Coleman
• November 2015 PDFThe Twenty-second Annual Cemetery Tour Presented by the Hancock County Historical Society by Eddie Coleman
• October 2015 PDFThe History of the Hancock County Port and Harbor Commission (1962--1979) by James Keating, M.D.
• September 2015 PDFJohn Hancock by Jackie Allain
• August 2015 PDFThe Orphan Train Movement by Eddie Coleman; An Interrupted Baptismal Ceremony by S.G. Thigpen
• July 2015 PDFMemories of the L&N by Irv Cuevas
• June 2015 PDFPearl Rivers--The Poet within Eliza Poitevent Nicholson by James Keating, M.D.; Best Thing I Can Tell You about My Life by Irving Meggs as told to Elizabeth Veglia
• May 2015 PDFAlbert Baldwin and Baldwin Lodge by Russell Guerin and Eddie Coleman; Did You Know This about Hancock County? Sugar Bowl Teams by Scott Bagley
• April 2015 PDFLouis Joseph Piernas by Scott Bagley; Reminiscences by Ames Kergosien
• March 2015 PDFThe Ringing of School Bells (Part II) Ed. Eddie Coleman; Reader's Corner by James Keating; History Week in Biloxi by Eddie Coleman
• February 2015 PDFPublic Education in Hancock County Eddie Coleman; The Ringing of School Bells (Reminiscences of Jeanne Doby Williams) ed. Eddie Coleman; Did You Know This about Hancock County (Cotton) by Scott Bagley
• January 2015 PDFBelle Fontaine, Old Maps, and the St. Roch Springs by Russell B. Guerin; The Installation of the 2015 Board of Directors
• November 2014 PDFThe Twenty-first Annual Cemetery Tour Eddie Coleman
• October 2014 PDFA Brief History of Halloween by Eddie Coleman; Ghost of the Pirate House ( from a 1986 Sun Herald article) by Kat Bergeron
• September 2014 PDFPoverty Point and Claiborne by Russell B. Guerin; Poverty Point, a Place and a Culture by Charles H. Gray; The Monte Walden Collection of Native American Artifacts by Charles H. Gray
• August 2014 PDFRichmond Barthé, Hancock County's American Sculptor by Eddie Coleman; Did You Know This about Hancock County? - Summer Camp for Jewish Orphans by Scott Bagley; Old Waveland School Receives Magnolia Marker by Russell Guerin and Eddie Coleman
• July 2014 PDFThe Battle of the Bay of Saint Louis by Eddie Coleman
• June 2014 PDFFord's Fort by Russell Guerin; Thomas Anderson, Hancock County's Representative to the Convention for Statehood by Eddie Coleman; Did You Know This about Hancock County "Hurricane Balls" by Scott Bagley
• May 2014 PDFVilla Quisiana by Eddie Coleman; Prohibition and Hancock County by Eddie Coleman
• April 2014 PDFLogtown - A Shadow in a Memory ed. by Eddie Coleman; The Logtown of S. G. Thigpen ed. by Eddie Coleman
• March 2014 PDFTwo Hundred Years of Hancock County, Mississippi by Louis Fuchs; History Week in Biloxi by Eddie Coleman
• February 2014 PDFDid You Know This About Hancock County? - The 1903 Fire by Scott Bagley; The Bay of St. Louis and Some Early Settlements and Communities in Hancock County comp. by Eddie Coleman
• January 2014 PDFLivestock Marks and Brands by Eddie Coleman; Installation of the 2014 Board of Directors
• November 2013 The Twentieth Annual Cemetery Tour by the Hancock County Historical Society by Eddie Coleman;
• October 2013 McLeod Water Park by Eddie Coleman; Did You Know This About Hancock County? - The 1907 Fire by Scott Bagley;
• September 2013 Historic Lighthouses of the Bay of St. Louis by Charles Gray, ed. Eddie Coleman; Did You Know This About Hancock County? - Darwood on the Jourdan and Holly Bluff Gardens by Scott Bagley;
• August 2013 Waveland Backyard Birds by P. Chris Christofferson; Reflections of S. G. Thigpen - The Old Time Church by Eddie Coleman;
• July 2013 A Brief History of the Bay-Waveland Garden Club by Tina Richardson; Historical Society Project: Profiles of Hancock County Citizens by Charles Gray;
• June 2013 Commuter Trains along the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Eddie Coleman; Trains Come to the Coast ed. by Scott Bagley and Eddie Coleman;
• May 2013 The British Period 1763-1779 by Charles Gray; The Bay's Early Movie Houses by Eddie Coleman;
• April 2013 The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 by Eddie Coleman;
• March 2013 The Formation of the City of Diamondhead by Louis Fuchs; Did You Know This About Hancock County? - The Bay Bridge by Scott Bagley; History Week in Biloxi by Eddie Coleman;
• February 2013 Bay Saint Louis' Shoo Fly Oak is Registered with a New Name by Shawn Prychitko; Sketches from "Next Door to Heaven" - Sam Russ by S.G. Thigpen;
• January 2013 Mystery of the Honey Island Swamp-Rat Killings by Eddie Coleman; Historical Society Receives Resolution of Commendation; Installation of the 2013 Board of Directors
• November 2012 The Nineteenth Annual Cemetery Tour Presented by the Hancock County Historical Society (Frank Lobrano - Walter Gex, Sr. - Amanda Von Gohren Gex - Annie Richter Adam Graham - John Korcinsky Lawrence Damborino - Antonia Grandich - Robert Eager - The Phantom Barber - Annie E. Avery - Ginger Burke Paradise - Jean Baptiste Toulme) by Eddie Coleman
• October 2012 Did You Know This About Hancock County? - Henry Weston (1823 - 1912) by Scott Bagley; The Bicycle Craze in Hancock County by Eddie Coleman
• September 2012 The James Copeland Gang by Jackie Allain; Another Outlaw: Pierre Remaux by Eddie Coleman
• August 2012 Hurricanes of the Past: 1855 and 1909 - excerpts from Charles Sullivan's book "Hurricanes of the Mississippi Gulf Coast"
• July 2012 The Strange Case of the Purloined Ballot Box by Russell Guerin
• June 2012 Early History of St. Stanislaus College ed. by Eddie Coleman; Did You Know This About Hancock County? - The Bay St. Louis Train Depot by Scott Bagley; Devil's Swamp - 1830 Indian Hideout comp. & ed. by Eddie Coleman; The Mallard Collection by Charles Gray
• May 2012 A Michelangelo Under the Bed ed. by Eddie Coleman; Did You Know This About Hancock County? - Illegal Whiskey from the Kiln by Scott Bagley
• April 2012 Raising Sheep in Hancock County by Eddie Coleman; Did You Know This About Hancock County? - Seawalls by Scott Bagley
• March 2012 The Formation of the Hancock County Historical Society by Eddie Coleman & Charles Gray
• February 2012 Life in Those Lovable "Gay Nineties" - Souvenir Centennial Edition, Hancock County Eagle 1958 by Eddie Coleman; Did You Know This About Hancock County? - The Reed Hotel Building by Scott Bagley
• January 2012 The Civilian Conservation Corps by Eddie Coleman; Labat Project; Installation of 2012 Officers - Insert with photos by Eddie Coleman
• November 2011 Ludovic Adrien Viallier de Montluzin du Sauzay (12/12/1827-12/26/1909) prepared by Emily Hosmer de Montluzin and Emily Lorraine de Montluzin; Dearest Arlette: Everyday Life in Postwar America and France, Letters of Two Reunited Families by Emily Hosmer de Montluzin with Emily Lorraine de Montluzin; Did You Know This About Hancock County? - The Sea Coast Echo Building by Scott Bagley; Eighteenth Annual Cemetery Tour by Eddie Coleman
• October 2011 A Brief History of Cedar Rest Cemetery by Eddie Coleman; Cook's Praline & Gift Shop - a Reminiscence by Margaret Prevou; World War II Newspaper Clippings by Eddie Coleman
• September 2011 Fort Lovell - Civil War Fort of Shieldsboro by Russell Guerin; Did You Know This About Hancock County? - Caroline Dale Snedeker by Scott Bagley; Repair of Tercentenary Park Statue by Scott Bagley; My Mississippi Families: Home, At Last by Ronnie Margaret Farris McGinnis
• August 2011 The Gilmore Hotel by Eddie Coleman; Did You Know This About Hancock County? - Center, Hancock County's First County Seat by Scott Bagley
• July 2011 The Coming Fight - John L. Sullivan's visit to Bay St. Louis by New York Herald 1882; Did You Know This About Hancock County? - Shieldsboro vs. Bay St. Louis by Scott Bagley
• June 2011 The Louisiana-Mississippi War of 1905 by Edith Back; Did You Know This About Hancock County? - Napoleon by Scott Bagley
• May 2011 Jean Baptiste Le Moyne Sieur de Bienville by Charles Gray; Cassette Girls by Charles Gray; Did You Know This About Hancock County? - Dueling by Scott Bagley
• April 2011 Seafood Canneries in Bay St. Louis by Eddie Coleman; Review of "My Mississippi Families: Home, At Last" by Ronnie Margaret Farris McGinnis
• March 2011 Eliza Poitevent Nicholson - A Woman Ahead of Her Time edited by Eddie Coleman; Belle Fontaine ... A Speculation by Russell Guerin
• February 2011 Lake Borgne by Russell Guerin; Did You Know This About Hancock County? - Brown's Vineyard - Scuppernong Wine by Scott Bagley
• January 2011 The Republic of West Florida by Eddie Coleman; Did You Know This About Hancock County? - Richmond Barthé by Scott Bagley; Christmas Tea & The Installation of the 2011 Board of Directors
• November 2010 The Progress of the Races - Etienne William Maxson comp. & edited by Eddie Coleman; Did You Know This About Hancock County? - John C. Stennis Space Center by Scott Bagley; The 17th Annual Cemetery Tour insert
• October 2010 The Visitor - a Pearlington Ghost Story by Marcie Cuevas Turnbough; Did You Know This About Hancock County? - Praline Capital of the World by Scott Bagley; Restoration of the Lobrano House Parlor insert
• September 2010 Valena C. Jones School by Eddie Coleman; Valena C. Jones by Eddie Coleman; Did You Know This About Hancock County? - Cecil B. de Mille by Scott Bagley
• August 2010 Elmwood Manor by Eddie Coleman; Did You Know This About Hancock County? - Dorothy Dix by Scott Bagley
• July 2010 Reflections of Hancock County Collected by S. G. Thigpen - Yellow Fever! compiled and edited by Eddie Coleman
• June 2010 Lawrence County Archives - Simon Favre by Russell Guerin; Lunch at the Toulme-Phillips House by Eddie Coleman
• May 2010 Renaissance of a Magnificent Beachfront Home (Toulme-Phillips House) by Charles Gray; Reflections of Hancock County Collected by S.G. Thigpen compiled and edited by Eddie Coleman
• April 2010 Mississippi's Native Population After the European Intrusion edited by Eddie Coleman;
• March 2010 Mississippi's Native Population Before the Europeans Came edited by Eddie Coleman; Hancock County Historical Society Receives the Frank E. Everett, Jr. Award
• February 2010 Early Spanish Explorers of the Gulf Coast edited by Eddie Coleman;
• January 2010 Bricks in Early Hancock County by Russell Guerin; Board of Directors for 2010
• November 2009 Historic Woodmen of the World Building Celebrates 100^th Birthday by Vicky Niolet; Cemetery Tour 2009 by Eddie Coleman
• October 2009 Notes from “The Sketch Book of Hancock County” (R.R. Perkins; Peerless Oyster Company) comp. & ed. by Eddie Coleman; Rededication of The City Crest at Tercentenary Park by Eddie Coleman
• September 2009 Who Built the Pirate House of Waveland? by Russell Guerin; Tercentenary Park by Charles Gray
• August 2009 The City of Waveland by Eddie Coleman; Students Shine at National History Day Competition by Renee McClendon
• July 2009 Gulfside Methodist Assembly by Scott Bagley
• June 2009 Louis Joseph Piernas by Eddie Coleman; Father Stanislaus Buteux by Russell Guerin
• May 2009 The Monte Walden Collection of Native American Artifacts by Charles H. Gray; Poverty Point, a Place and a Culture by Charles H. Gray; Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church by Scott Bagley
• April 2009 The Lighthouse at Clermont Harbor comp. & ed. by Eddie Coleman; National History Day in Hancock County by Renee McClendon; Mississippi Trivia and Interesting Stuff
• March 2009 The City of Pearlington ed. by Eddie Coleman; Logtown Methodist Church by Scott Bagley
• February 2009 The Clifton Hotel ed. by Eddie Coleman; St. Claire Catholic Church by Scott Bagley
• January 2009 St. Augustine’s Seminary and Grotto ed. by Eddie Coleman; Installation of 2009 Board of Directors by Eddie Coleman
• November 2008 German Submarine Activity in the Gulf of Mexico from the M. James Stevens Collection, edited by Eddie Coleman; 2008 Cemetery Tour by Eddie Coleman
• October 2008 History of the Annual Cemetery Tour by Eddie Coleman; St. Rose de Lima Catholic Church by Scott Bagley
• September 2008 J. F. H. Claiborne - Gentleman Planter or Confederate Yankee? comp. & edited by Eddie Coleman
• August 2008 When Hollywood Came to Town (the movie “This Property is Condemned”) by Eddie Coleman; First Presbyterian Church, Bay St. Louis by Scott Bagley
• July 2008 The Orphan Train Movement ed. by Eddie Coleman; Requiem for a Building (138 Main Street) by Charles Gray
• June 2008 Richmond Barthé (1901-1989), American Sculptor ed. by Eddie Coleman; First Baptist Church, Bay St. Louis by Scott Bagley
• May 2008 The Scafidi Collection by Charles H. Gray; Anthony J. “Tony” Scafidi: short biography and several photos
• April 2008 Sarah Bernhardt ed. by Eddie Coleman; Turtle Farm ed. by Eddie Coleman; Valena C. Jones Memorial United Methodist Church by Scott Bagley
• March 2008 A Brief History of The Kiln by Eddie Coleman; The Church of the Annunciation, Kiln by Scott Bagley
• February 2008 Indian School by Russell Guerin; Main Street United Methodist Church by Scott Bagley; Dilville School picture 1920
• January 2008 Early Churches of Hancock County (Christ Church, Episcopal) by Scott Bagley; Installation of 2008 Board of Directors by Eddie Coleman; Renovations to Lobrano House by Eddie Coleman
• November 2007 The Admiralty Anchor by Russell Guerin; 2007 Halloween Tour by Eddie Coleman
• October 2007 Once Upon a Midnight, Dreary…. (Bourgeois ghost of Waveland) by Eddie Coleman; Ghost of the Pirate House by Eddie Coleman; The Ethereal Harpist (ghost of Pass Christian) by Kat Bergeron, ed. Eddie Coleman; A Brief History of Halloween by Eddie Coleman
• September 2007 Everything Old Is New Again (Pictures before/after/now - Katrina)
• August 2007 The County Seats of Hancock County by Eddie Coleman; Gainesville by Eddie Coleman; Center/Caesar by Eddie Coleman
• July 2007 The Hancock Bank Building on Beach Boulevard by Scott Bagley; Migration of Those Who settled Hancock County by Marco Giardino and Russell Guerin, ed. Eddie Coleman; De Bow’s Review
• June 2007 The Notorious of Hancock County (Pierre Remaux, Calico Dick, James Copeland) ed. Eddie Coleman; Trio Hunts Treasure on Downtown Bay Lot (reprinted from The Sea Coast Echo); Prohibition and Hancock County by Eddie Coleman
• May 2007 Connecting the Coast Once Again (Reopening of the Bay Bridge) by Eddie Coleman; Bay-Waveland Yacht Club by Scott Bagley
• April 2007 Ford’s Fort by Russell Guerin; Thomas Anderson: Hancock County’s Representative to the Convention for Statehood ed. Eddie Coleman; The Rededication of Tercentenary Park by Eddie Coleman
• March 2007 Hope in Our Time of Trial and Sorrow (Repairs to Tercentenary Park) by Charles Gray; Why Is the Statue of Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville? by Charles Gray, ed. Eddie Coleman; The Voyage of Le Marin Epilogue reprint of article by Edith Back
• February 2007 Carnival and Mardi Gras ed. Eddie Coleman; Mardi Gras in Bay St. Louis ed. Eddie Coleman; Post-WWII Celebration ed. Eddie Coleman; Mardi Gras in Hancock County ed. Eddie Coleman
• January 2007 Villa Quisiana ed. Eddie Coleman; The Jermyn Collection by Eddie Coleman;  New Officers
• November 2006 Ferry Across the Bay (new and old); 2006 Halloween Tour by Eddie Coleman
• October 2006 Seaman William Canby by Paul La Violette; Survivors, Part 3
• September 2006 Mississippi’s No-man’s Land: An Echo of the Koch Family Letters by Marco Giardino and Russell Guerin; Legends; Survivors, Part 2
• August 2006 Survivors - Twenty-two beachfront homes/ buildings which survived Katrina
• July 2006 Lakes, Marshes, Bayous Compiled by the Works Progress Administration; Napoleon Community
• June 2006 Formation of Hancock County Compiled by the Works Progress Administration
• May 2006 Katrina Treasure - family quilt found after storm by Dale St. Amant; Cadet La Fontaine by Russell Guerin
• April 2006 Excerpts from S. G. Thigpen’s books; Bay St. Louis Memories by Tommy Crosslin; Pearson Foundation Publishes Book
• March 2006 Katrina Cottages ed. by Dale St. Amant
• February 2006 The railroad in Bay Saint Louis by Dale St. Amant
• January 2006 Groups To Restore Two Historic Bay Homes ed. by Dale St. Amant; Plan for the Conservation and Storage of Hecker Cottage Artifacts ed. by Eddie Coleman; Help from Many Hands by Eddie Coleman
• November 2005 Miracle at Lobrano House by Charles Gray; Way North of I-10 (Bucks County, PA) by Charles Gray; MSNBC and Bay St. Louis by Dale St. Amant
• No newsletter published in October 2005 because of Hurricane Katrina
• No newsletter published in September 2005 because of Hurricane Katrina
• August 2005 The Ringing of School Bells (Public Ed. in Hancock County [Part 2]) ed. by Eddie Coleman; Gerald Price’s Scrapbook
• July 2005 Rediscovery of Jourdan; Holly Bluff; Darwood on the Jourdan, all by Dale St. Amant; Public Education in Hancock County (Part 1) ed. by Eddie Coleman
• June 2005 Evolution of the Lighthouse Tower by Dale St. Amant
• May 2005 Brown’s Vineyard; Brown’s Vineyard Magnolia marker
• April 2005 The Pirate House by Russell Guerin; the Pirate House Magnolia marker
• March 2005 Book signing of A Place Apart by Dale St. Amant; picture of Logtown School’s 1959 eighth grade class
• February 2005 Midshipman William Canby by Paul LaViolette
• January 2005 St. Joseph’s Academy