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outtne summer, punmg otr any career decisions until after Labor Day, it was actually a brilliant stroke, says Goodrich & Sherwood, a consulting firm.
Most companies do their marketing and manufacturing planning in the fall, chairman Andrew Sherwood says, so that’s the best time for would-be job applicants to start plotting their own career moves.
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Stone walls can be easy to build
■	Robert Frost wrote that “something there is that doesn’t
love a wall.”
However, if you’ve always loved those New England stone walls, they are easier to build than you might guess.
“If you can put together a jigsaw puzzle, you can build a stone wall,” says Glastonbury, Conn., mason Scott Majek. The process of linking stones with their neighbors and making good matches is the heart of the
mason’s art.
Some builders suggest you memorize the shape of holes in the wall and look for pieces that will fill them. “It’s amazing how you can develop an eye for it,” Majek says.
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Aquarium fish most abused pet
■	Remember, your guppie is your guest. “People don’t regard the life of a fish with much compassion," says Michael Kaufmann, humane educator coordinator of the American Humane Association, which asserts that the “most abused and neglected animal in the country” is the aquarium fish.
lived," says Ocean Springs re-enactor Kay Bellande, who portrays a worker-soldier sent to the Coast after Maurepas was established in 1699. \'
“I’m ashpmed that I grew up here and never real^ knew my heritage or the Coast’s colonial histyy — my ancestors’ history. Re-enacting a learning tool, a way to ‘feel’ history, notist to read it in a book.”
Soldiers frVn Compagnies Franches de la Marine, trade voyageurs, coureur-de-bois or woodland runWs, a priest and family will be among the Marepas re-enactors. Ten will be from the CoasWd another 10 are living historians fronWt Toulous, the French-era fort near Montgnery, Ala.
Entertainmeiyill include samplings of recorded coloni&usic, musket volleys, marching drills, talk on early Mississippi by Elbert Hilliaj. director of the Mississippi Department of Aryes & History.
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From left, John Moran, Anita Kegley and Mitch Kegley stand at Fort Maurepas’ lookout point
What: French Colonial re-enactment at Fort __ Maurepas: ‘Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama Belong to France Again.’
Where: Fort Maurepas, a replica of an 18th-century fort on the beach in Ocean Springs.
Admission: Free. Feel free to watch and ask questions.
When: Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 8-10.
Lagniappe: Jacques Charron and his wife, French-Canadians from Longueuil, Quebec, the homeland of Iberville and Bienville, will be guests at the re-enactment and will answer questions.
Sponsor: Fort Maurepas Society. v Inside: Schedule of „ events, Page E-2.
Coast-kiter blames the people for the problems
Listen up.
R. Joshua Murry has a message:
“Turn off your television,” . says this poet, writer and Seal native who hates the Mississip\
Coast.	\
“Your city, your state, your
country’s falling apart. ”
Murry hates the Coast because the roads, schools, librarie and governments are substan- ^ dard. But mostly he hates this are; *'»oause no one seems willing to
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can’t they scrape up enough money to fix the roads?
That’s a tough question.
Murry’s name might be familiar because he occasionally sends his essays to The Sun Herald’s Letters to the Editor section.
Those letters usually provoke strong reactions and rebukes — particularly the one that suggested the Coast would be better off if a hurricane swept the area clean.
Sometimes, even Murry’s wife calls him a misanthrope — which means he doesn’t like any-
me,” he says. “It’s almost pathetic when a people have attempted to sustain themselves on a culture, say the Confederate culture, which is literally dead. It ended years ago.”
Human nature is part of the problem, he admits. His native and beloved Seattle has some of the same problems as the Coast—just not to the same degree.
“People are hypocrites no matter where you go, ” Murry says. “It’s incredible how we pick and choose and place blame. People
to arrpnt
While he loathes where he lives, he doesn’t hate his life.
“My place is as a writer, ” he said. “When a man finds what he is and accepts that, I don’t believe God would give you any alternative but contentment.”
Murry might be a bit like a prophet, but he admits that he’s egotistical and sometimes enjoys stirring people up.
“The worst that can happen to a writer is to get no response. ” When one of his letters appears in the newspaper, Murry often gets phone calls. About half