Clayton Cubitt, of Operation Eden fame, has a new post where he discusses to ongoing efforts to restore the Katrina-devastated town of Pearlington MS.
There is a project aptly called One House at a Time, whose charter is to help the people of Pearlington get back on their feet, with affordable housing.
Being a small town, kinda’ in the middle of nowhere, Pearlington doesn’t get the press, either good or bad, of New Orleans, Biloxi, and other larger places. They have very little voice and they are easier to ignore I guess because few people had heard of Pearlington from the git-go.
The last paragraph of the post hit me where I live:
As I write this winter is almost upon us in the Gulf. Did you know that the FEMA trailers people waited so long to get are being taken away in February? Will the citizens of Pearlington be back to living in tents then? Not if One House At A Time can help it, and you can help them. Like I said, Pearlington was never much to look at. It’s no New Orleans. It’s no Biloxi. But it’s a part of America that’s fading fast and deserves to survive. Because if you go far enough back, all our families come from some place like Pearlington.
I come from a small town myself; my parents and grandparents came from even smaller towns. As the year end approaches, SWMBO and I donate to a few mutually-agreed-upon worthwhile causes. This year, I think we’ll add One House at a Time to the list. Because small places like it do deserve to survive. Go read Clayton’s post. Maybe you’ll agree.
-k-
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