I placed a SamStone at St. Francis School near my home..

Today I got a note from my friend Marie Kaminsky and her kids with a picture showing that it’s still there !

-jc

Hey John,

The boys and I were out last week near St. Francis and we stopped by to see if the Sam stone was still there and it was!! I took a picture with my cell phone, but couldn’t figure out how to transfer it to email. So we went back there today and again – its still there! So here’s a photo of St. Francis, the Sam stone, Zeb and Luke.

The boys are still wearing their Univ. of So. Miss gear we got in Hattiesburg when we visited my cousin last weekend. The beach at Biloxi had just opened in May, after cleaning up from Hurricane Katrina. I was pleasantly surprised that no one got cuts on their feed from debris in the water – all in all they had done a good job of cleaning up, but I easily found a piece of Formica and blue ceramic tile from one of the many homes that got washed into the Gulf. Hwy 90 that runs along the coast there used to be lined with gorgeous ante bellum homes, which are all gone. Very sad. Almost sadder was off the highway near Hattiesburg there is what I called a FEMA trailer farm. There are acres and acres of them lined up like sardines as the “staging area” for the next hurricane. What a waste. I’ve attached that photo too.

See ya,
Marie