Dan Ellis.Net     |   home Diamondhead Jubilee   |   Kiln Kountry -- Home of Brett Favre   |   Slidell � Camellia City   |   Pass Christian Discovered   |   Images of America -- Pass Christian   |   St.  Paul Parish Jubilee 3   |   Hancock County � Bay St. Louis Discovered   |   Gulfport Discovered   |   Mississippi Gulf Coast   |   Pass Christian � Historic District and Lost Mansions   |   All About Camille   |   Lighthouses and Islands -- of the Gulf Coast   |   The Great Gulf Coast -- Sails, Trails & Rails   |   Gold Coast Watering Places   |   Christmas in the Pass Mississippi Gulf Coast      �Mississippi Gulf Coast: A Panorama of History and Culture� is a long title for a booklet which in 66 pages presents the reader with a quick overview of the places and people of the Gulf Coast.      Sun-Herald's book reviewer Nan Patton Ehrbright proclaimed that, �It's a great little book for Coastians to share with visitors who want a quick lay of the land.  It travels through the beach communities of Ocean Springs, Biloxi, Gulfport, Long Beach, Pass Christian, Henderson Point, Bay St.  Louis, Waveland, � then visits the piney woods area � Kiln, Diamondhead, DeLisle, Pineville-Cuevas, Orange Grove-Lyman, and D'Ierville.�'      The book also discusses the people who have made this area so historically and colorfully diverse:  beginning with the founders, the settlers, the Indians, the pirates.  Just as the first Indians intermingled with the early French, English and Spanish settlers, so were the ensuing generations populated by the African-Americans, Swiss, German, Polish, Irish, Italian, Greek, and Slavic workers who were brought in to work the fish canneries and pine forests.      Even natives and longtime Coast residents are likely to find tidbits of information that they did not know or have long forgotten.  The book is liberally sprinkled with photographs that best describes each community on the reading tour.      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.  Contact Ellis at (228) 452-3138 or [email protected].