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Librarian is historian of year
■	The librarian who spearheaded the first coastwide history week has been named Historian of the Year by the city of Biloxi.
Mary Louise Adkinson will be honored at today’s National Historic Preservation Week ceremonies in Biloxi. The 1990 theme is “Keeping America’s Heritage Alive.”
Adkinson is the two-term president of the Mississippi Coast Historical & Genealogical Society, which sponsored the first Coast History Week in February.
Hancock, Jackson and Harrison counties held special seminars, and Coast first-graders received copies of the society’s new 18-page Coast history coloring book.
“The more we know about our past, both local and family history, the
better grasp we have of our future and our heritage,” Adkinson said.
The Biloxi native has researched many Coast families, and has authored several articles on local history and genealogy. She has worked on the Tullis-Toledano board to help preserve the historic Biloxi estate, and worked to save the historical integrity of street names when a new E-911' phone system was installed.
Adkinson is a circulation clerk at the Biloxi Public Library on Lameuse Street, where the awards ceremony will be held today at 5 p.m.
Twenty-one other historic preservation honorees and Biloxi’s employ^ ee of the year will also receive awards.
The ceremony is open to the public.
Mary Louise Adkinson