What can you do to improve your health and at the same time improve the health of our home planet? Do you want to be a healthier and more sustainable consumer? In this straightforward, easy-to-understand and entertaining book, dietitian and environmentalist Dr. Dana Ellis Hunnes outlines the actions we can all take. Many people feel overwhelmed by the scope of climate change and believe that only large, sweeping changes will make any difference. Yet the choices we make every day can have effects on climate change, the oceans, the land, and other species. This book outlines the problems we are facing, and then presents ideas or 'recipes' to empower us, to help us all make a difference. Recipe For Survival provides the guidance that you can use right now to improve your health, your family's health, and the health of the environment simultaneously.

Jazz in the Pass emanates the historic musical legacies as put forth by Capt. John Handy, saxophone; Joe B. Jackson, pianist; and the Watson Brothers' Band, who were all from this community. The festival has grown with each year, with the potential of becoming a major event. Capt. John Handy, a Black man with roots in Pass Christian, became internationally famous for his performances with his alto sax. At his funeral in 1970, Harold DeJean, head of the Olympia Brass Band, echoed out, "We come to lay him down right " The ritual is a tradition for New Orleans old musicians that seldom varies. The band lead the hearse in a somber funereal march to the cemetery, playing hymns all along the way. The lead trumpet rolled out the first notes of "Closer Walk With Thee." Then they let loose with a sprightly march as they came away from the grave, blaring lively Dixieland tunes. The trumpets aimed heavenward, clarinets playing lower register, and the trombones flamed like burnished gold. The mourners strutted and trucked all along the band route. Friends had come from as far as England and as near as around the corner - also in tribute were the bells from other churches in the city that began ringing - "there were the sounds of music everywhere.

"Bay St. Louis Discovered" - by Dan Ellis The cover features the wooden-framed Hancock County Courthouse as constructed in 1874 and later renovated. The county seat was moved a couple of times before it was established in Shieldsboro, now Bay St. Louis. When Hancock County was first established - it included land between the Pearl River on the West and Biloxi Bay on the East. It was later reduced in several stages to create three new counties - Harrison, Stone and Pearl River. Sun-Herald book reviewer Nan Patton Ehrbright describes the book as including "chapters on Bay St. Louis, Old Town, Churches, organizations, and the builders who constructed the county's historic buildings. And, a section featuring the county's early hotels, businesses, and shop owners. A number of the current businesses in the Bay area are also highlighted." The book - liberally illustrated with photos, drawings, and maps - sweeps through the county's history from its first settlement to its current growth stages with such significant cities of Waveland and Bay St. Louis and community developments at the Kiln and Diamondhead - and the NASA complex. The material gathered from the earliest historic incidents - was garnered from many resource documents from the courthouse, newspaper clippings from the Historical Society and the Public Library, and from personal interviews of longtime residents. All of the early churches that still exist today are briefly described with accompanying photographs from the early times to the present. A history of the Bay-Waveland Yacht club is richly staged from the early regattas to its current reorganized club facility. Ellis, a former educator and business owner, has published more than a dozen books in his heritage legacy series, and is a contributing writer to several publications and an accomplished public speaker.

"Gold Coast Watering Places" is an interesting and enjoyable account of our Coast heritage from a unique vantage point. Dan Ellis mixes methodical research with period photographs in a compelling history. The Gold Coast was a name popular in decades past for our Southern Mississippi shoreline because of its "open bars and open gambling." Watering Places is an antebellum name for Coast resorts that could only be reached via water from New Orleans at the time. Hence, "Gold Coast Watering Places" is a history of the resorts, tourists, citizens, transportation and societies that considered the Coast an upper-class destination. The tourist and summer home trend on the Coast was noted as early as 1810 in a written account by a visitor: "Moreover, a number of wealthy New Orleanians had established summer homes." Soon, hotels and resorts - Biloxi's American Hotel (1843), East Pascagoula House (1836), Long Beach's Brown Hotel (1895) and The Pass Christian Hotel (1831) - dotted the Coast as the region's reputation grew as an oasis of leisure and cultured civility. Activities and services available at The Pass Christian Hotel included "sea bathing, fishing, sailing, shooting, riding and romantic walks, together with archery, billiards, tenpins and excellent dining." Well-rendered local history is vitally important to a full understanding of national history. It is impossible to climb and appreciate the view from a widow's walk if a foundation has not been laid first. National events of a time period have a richer and deeper context when laid upon a firm base of local historical knowledge.

Trinity and Live Oak is all about Trinity Episcopal Church and Live Oak Cemetery in Pass Christian. The first part of the book is a history of Trinity Church and its role call of Rectors that begins with Dr. Thomas Savage - credited with being the first person to broadcast to the world about the African gorilla, its habitat, and its customs. In furtherance of the church's history is the catastrophic destruction by Hurricane Camille of Trinity Church, which was built in 1849 - and its resurrection and re-consecration into a newly replicated Gothic edifice. In a separate historic revelation, is the story of Live Oak Cemetery, beginning with its inception in 1851. In what Ellis refers to as a Storybook Land, is revealed in 130 pages packed with more than 350 photographs - most of which are grave side sights enmeshed within an enumeration of more than 1000 burial sites. These include plot descriptions, names, dates, places, espousal and parental relationships, and biblical and poetic statements as read from memorial inscriptions posted on monuments, pinnacles, stones, slabs, urns, etc. In a detailed research of the area known as the "Old Section" - the original 1851 deed transfer shows 154 plots measuring 20-by-20-feet with a capacity for 12 grave sites each. A special attempt was made to research each of the interred for an expanded notation of their life existence in Pass Christian. Relevant points of interest include community endeavor, public offices held, occupations, places of residence, children, and other community data. A survey of information denotes that ten of the original plots are void of names or apparent markers due to hurricane destruction or neglect. Of the remaining 144 plot sites, there are forty-seven military branch affiliations designated by war eras ranging from the Civil War to Vietnam, with some references to the American Revolution. Also found, are special recognition markers which include three DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution), one official C.S.A. marker, several Masonic designations, and five WOW (Woodmen of the World) pinnacles. There are three former Church Rectors and twelve former town mayors interred. Among the grave sites are: 28 founding members of the Town Library - including its first president, six recipients of the cherished "Outstanding Citizen Award," six former Commodores of the Pass Christian Yacht Club - including its first Commodore. Also, disclosed are; the first Pass Christian Eagle Scout, the first PCI Golf Club Pro, the first Chamber of Commerce president, the first Postmaster, a founding member of the Pass Christian Historical Society, and the organizer of the First Gulf Coast Tarpon Rodeo as was held at Pass Christian. Other leaders found, had performed official duties for Harrison County government: the first Chancery Court Clerk, the first Sheriff, and the first Police Board (Supervisors) President. -And, one who was appointed the U.S. Surveyor General for the Northwest territory. Not obscure, are three ladies who operated private schools, seven owner/operators of hotels, eighteen doctors, and four druggists More than 35 prominent families are written up in Cameo profiles that portray their significant contributions. Of further interest are short stories of grave site remembrances that include the "Lost Child," the "Last Duel," and the "First New Orleans style Jazz Funeral." Not lost in the maze of photographed monuments, is the background scenery showing the many trees that provide shade cover and exhibit an ambiance of nature's glory in a kaleidoscopic reproduction of serene beauty. This is the 17th book in a series of local legacy histories written and published by Dan Ellis

The town known as "The Kiln," has received nationwide notoriety due to one of its native sons, former Green Bay Packers' quarterback Brett Favre. The community, located 10 miles north of Bay St. Louis and Waveland, on the Gulf coast, was named for the kilns built by the early French settlers to produce tar and charcoal. In later years, with the growth of the timber industry, the town of Kiln was touted as having the largest sawmill and drying kiln in the South. During that period of the early 1900s, there was a hospital, a large hotel, and hundreds of mill-houses, none of which exist today. Later, the Kiln, as the town was commonly called, enjoyed a second boom when it became known as the Moonshine Capital of the World during the bootlegging days of Prohibition. It was said that an average of $4,000 of sugar a week was sold by a small local merchant. Kiln liquor had a reputation for high alcoholic proof and went under such names as Jourdan River Dew, White Lightning, Shinny, etc. The area around the Kiln is the fastest growing region of the county, which is, itself, one of the fastest growing counties in Mississippi. Ellis tracks the Kiln story from the early American Indians; the colonial periods of the French, English, Spanish; and the early migrations of Americans - to the present day. The book is liberally sprinkled with old and new photographs and drawings as well as names that are as familiar today as they were when the town's history began - Favre, Cuevas, Ladner, Nicaise, and Haas. The book contains brief histories of Kiln's neighboring piney wood communities - Fenton, Jourdan River Shores, McLeod Water Park, Holly Bluff, Diamondhead, and the NASA Stennis Space Center. A section is included on the town's athletic celebrities, including Brett Favre, in addition to archival and current maps, and a driving tour of the Kiln.

"The Great Gulf Coast - Sails, Trails and Rails" is exactly as its name states. It is the elucidation of coastal transportation from early times to the present. With the exception of air travel, Ellis's chronicles begin with describing the water vessels that traveled the lakes, bayous, and the Mississippi Sound. In this regard, he unfolds the colonial periods of domination by the French, British, and Spanish. And the flags honoring those nations went through serial changes until 1811, when the first American banner was raised displaying 15 stars and stripes. This flag was presented by Dr. William Flood as he commanded his schooner, the Alligator, in making several stopovers along the Coast. Mississippi went from being a territory to statehood - and its early first settlers experienced the Great Migration and the establishment of the Antebellum era. With the influx of new people, the early coastal towns and cities were primarily engaged in farming, fishing, lumbering, and ship building. As New Orleans and inland plantations became attracted to the health benefits and exotic charm of the Gulf Coast, each of the coastal villages began vying against each other in attracting the rich Louisiana planters and businessmen. Health resorts developed into famed "Watering Places" as grandiose hotels were built to accommodate and entertain the Cream of Southern Society.