In Mississippi's Ruins, a Bright Spot Beckons

Along the altered waterfront, amid the ruinous handiwork of a hurricane nine months past, something bright and riotous upsets the dark stillness. Garish, glorious, improbable, a fair.

Cleanup efforts continue at Beauvoir, the historic home of the only president of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, along U.S. 90 in Biloxi. The home was severely damaged in Hurricane Katrina. More Photos »
It laughs and shouts into the nighttime quiet of the once-buzzing U.S. 90, the preferred route for voyeurs of Gulf Coast disaster. The road through Biloxi offers the footprint slabs of vanished restaurants and the toppled slabs of a disturbed cemetery, the trashed gaudy casinos of the New Mississippi, the crushed courtly mansions of the Old.

from the NY Times