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Bay St. Louis once boasted a visit from Sarah Bernhardt herself. But it was quite without her consent. She was on board the L&N Train which Wo.s delayed on account of trouble at the bridge. All passengers poured into the Crescent Hotel to be feed turing the emergency. The "Divine Sarah” however, was in a temperamental tizzy over the delay and her storming, although in French, was easily understood.
xhe 1920’s broughtthe rum-runners unci Charleston dancdrs, and the bootleggers.
Today Bay St. Louis likes to boast of it’s educational facilities.