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Ocean Springs, Miss. It was then named the E. O. Hunt Live Oak in honor of the former owner of the property on which the Retardation Center is built. The tree’s branches have grown in excess of ten feet since the 1979 measurements. A most beautiful and healthy specimen of an ancient Live Oak Tree, it is located just back of the Administration Building of the Center. Visitors between 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Photographs of the tree are permitted.
PASS CHRISTIAN Pilgrimage Chairman: Mrs. Alfred E. Abaunza Thursday, March 29, 1990 - 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
HOSTESSES: PASS CHRISTIAN GARDEN CLUB
1.	HANCOCK BANK CIVIC CENTER - 257 East Scenic Drive. This structure incorporates the historic Nelson Hotel. Coffee and doughnuts will be served from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. Pilgrimage brochures and maps will be available.
2.	THE TOWN LIBRARY - 221 East Scenic Drive. 10:00 a.m. to noon. The Library was opened in 1893 and purchased its present cottage in 1905 largely by personal gifts of money. President Woodrow Wilson visited here during the winter of 1913-14 when he lived in the Dixie White House in Pass Christian. Many first editions are found here along with an interesting scrapbook from Pass Christian Garden Club.
3.	TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH - West Beach and Church Street. 11:00 a.m. -4:00 p.m. Trinity was organized in 1848 and the church built in 1849. This building was swept away during Hurricane Camille. The new structure, duplicating the 1849 original, was completed in 1971. The needlepoint on the kneelers of the communion rail was done by a group of New Orleans ladies and given in memory of those who lost their lives in Hurricane Camille.
4.	LIVE OAK CEMETERY - North of Trinity Episcopal Church on St. Louis Street. Land was donated in 1851 to Trinity Church and called Live Oak Cemetery. Frances Ffcrke Lewis Butler's (great granddaughter of Martha Washington and grandniece of George Washington) Tomb is here).
5.	HOME OF MRS. BETSY RICHARDS - 208 West Beach. 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The house, a Louisiana style cottage, was built by Dr. A. R. Robertson, first physician of Pass Christian, about 1890. Large French doors and windows open onto a porch across the front. Mrs. Richards, being an Interior Decorator herself, completely re-did the house when she bought it, adding color and charm to the old cottage. An ultra modem kitchen was added.
6.	BUFFET LUNCHEON will be served at the Pass Christian Yacht Club 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for $6.50. Reservations not required. Yachting in the South was born at Pass Christian in 1849. The first regatta recognized was held July 21, 1849. The present club house was built in 1971 and completely rebuilt in 1988.
7.	THE HARBOR SHOP - 115 East Scenic Drive. 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. A unique non-profit organization which operates a retail shop. All articles are sold on consignment and any profits are used for civic contributions. The shop was founded by Mrs. Donna Baird in 1955 with original capital of $30.00 and is staffed by volunteers.
8.	HOME OF MR. AND MRS. NORTON ENGLAND - Bush Road, DeLisle. The house was built about 60 years ago by a member of the Busch (beer) family as a winter home on Bayou DeLisle. In 1959 Mr. N. E. England bought the property and uses it as a second home. Much renovating has been done on the cottage, adding two guest houses for his children. A large modem pool with a rustic poolhouse sits on 5 acres of land filled with azalea bushes and has a beautiful vista of the river and Bay.
9.	HOME OF MR. AND MRS. THOMAS PARKER. DeLisle. 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. This is the earliest known working Spanish land grant given to John B. Saucier in 1712. The home is a New England type cottage with four board verandas encasing the house, and 14 foot ceilings. In 1848 Mark Twain was a visitor here. Mr. Parker pur-
chased the home in 1932. His father, the former Governor of Louisiana. John M. Parker, had a large impact on Pass Christian and lots of his memos will be found here. There is a 500 year old oak, a member of the Living Oak Society, standing in the front yard. Tea will be served.
10.	SENIOR CITIZEN’S CENTER - W. Second St. This modem building was rebuilt in 1987 after housing the Police and Fire Departments for many, many years. All Senior Citizens are invited to participate in the various activities offered - sewing, crocheting, ceramics, all crafts, china painting and other arts. There is a craft shop where the seniors may sell their crafts.
LEGENDARY AND ANCIENT LIVE OAKS Friday, March 30, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The sixty-mile coastline of Mississippi is the home of many beautiful and old live oaks - a place especially unusual in the growth of mammoth live oaks even down to water’s edge. The Live Oak. Quercus virginiana. has a rounded top with spreading and reaching horizontal arms, as large and heavy as the trunks of other trees. The limbs extend over lawns and colorful plantings of azaleas and camellias.
The Gulf Coast, in spite of hurricanes and other natural enemies as well as Man with his progress, still has many of these remarkable. Centuries-old Spanish Moss-draped trees.
The Live Oak Society - or Society des Arbres - was formed to register these and other major trees of adequate size and age, now a part of the State's Federated Garden Club programs.
Naval Reserve Park, Biloxi, on Keesler Air Force Base bordering on Back Bay. still retains a part of an extensive oak grove occupying a 377 acre wooded tract that was set aside in 1832 to supply timber for the Navy (today some of this Naval Reserve Park houses the Biloxi VA and Keesler). The horizontal and arched branches of Live Oaks were used by early settlers of the Georgia islands to build “Old Ironsides” and other ships. Early settlers used Spanish Moss.'Tillandsia usenoides, as caulking material with mud to build chimneys and dwellings. Moss draped trees present a pale gray ghostly scene, appropriate to the thought of historical significance.
Friendship Oak. Ruskin Oak, Ring in the Tree Oak. Jefferson Davis, The Councillor. Secretary. Interlocking Oaks. DeLisle Oak. Wallace Oak. Wiggins Oak - all of these are centuries old. with their own legends.
Thought of the affect on the Live Oaks of modern living, and the effect of the Live Oaks on environment, brings us to an awareness of environmentalists who for twenty years have sought to focus the attention of people everywhere on the global nature of life forces of Planet