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Back In the days of the Great Depression when President Roosevelt and members of his cabinet were concerning themselves with the business of creating Jobs for the jobless .. hope for the hopeless .. and food for the foodless a three-letter word called Works Progress Administration came into being. There were lots of jokes about the W.fJ.A. for in those days people had to laugh a lot to keep from crying. They joked a lot about the seawall and the paved curbings, but if there were any jokes created about Miss Louise Crawford and her job as librarian in Bay St. Louis they never became popular.
You'd think somebody would make a lot of jokes about Miss Crawford's job as a librarian in Bay St. Louis for to tell you the truth there wasn't a library in Bay St. Louis back in 193*H Miss Crawford's salary wasn't much but she took that job seriously and with vim, vision, and vigour she created a library of sorts!
The Hancock Bank Building had a vacant second floor so it didn't take much efford to pursuade the owners to let her use it» getting free utilities was a bit harder, and it wasn't too hard to get some furnishings from the attics af friends — so there was a floor and a ceiling and some hodge-podge furnishings. People started passing on a few books to fill up the shelves and once in a while there would be a gift of money.
So the library in Bay St. Louis came to be thought of in terms of Miss Louise just like when you think of bacon you also think of eggs! Nobody made Jokes about Miss Louise's Library for