today's Jefferson Davis update

[the Bede]

also a Katrina story (made ya look!)

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/02/11/jefferson_daviss_miss_home_is_rising_again/

Jefferson Davis's Miss. home is rising again
Katrina nearly destroyed estate
By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press
February 11, 2007

BILOXI, Miss. -- The retirement home of Confederate President Jefferson
Davis, battered by Hurricane Katrina but still standing, is about to get a
painstaking face lift.

Later this month, workers will embark on a yearlong $4 million project to
repair and restore Beauvoir, the only national historic landmark that
Katrina severely damaged on Mississippi's Gulf Coast.

The Biloxi home, built in 1852 and purchased by Davis in 1879, was hit by a
9 -foot wall of water when Katrina roared ashore. Beauvoir had survived 21
hurricanes before Katrina, but the Aug. 29, 2005, storm nearly destroyed the
popular beachfront tourist attraction.

Katrina shredded Beauvoir's roof, front porch, chimneys, and pillars, and
the storm flooded the elevated interior with about a foot of water. The
hurricane also damaged a library, museum, and other structures on the
52-acre property and swept away about one third of Beauvoir's artifacts,
including some of Davis's manuscripts and roughly $250,000 in Confederate
currency. I'M RICH, BEYOTCH!

The core of the home is largely intact, however.

"It would have been a tragic loss that could not have been replaced," said
Beauvoir curator Richard Flowers, "but we're going to bring it back bigger
and better than before."

Some of the scars on the antebellum home are manmade -- and deliberate.

George Fore, an architectural conservator, is studying the home's painted
walls and ceilings by chipping away layers of paint on the damaged frescoes.
He is digging through the work of previous restoration projects to examine
the original paintings.

"The design became less and less like the original with each repainting," he
said. It's Fore's job to help recreate what the paintings looked like during
the decade that Davis lived there.

"Nothing was lost in total. Nothing totally disappeared," he said. "Given
the force of the storm, we were pretty lucky."

Some of the home's storm-tossed remnants aren't gone for good. Workers will
recycle piles of bricks, slate, and plaster that broke off the home and will
use the material to rebuild the structure.

Flowers said slate for the roof will be imported from the same company in
Wales that provided the original material for the home. The color might be
slightly off, because the slate is drawn from a different part of the same
mine.

"They are still mining that same slate," he said. "It's just unreal."

In addition to rebuilding the home, Beavoir's stewards hope to construct
replicas of other Davis-era structures that no longer exist on the property,
including a carpenter's shop, maids' quarters, and a foreman's house.

Beavoir averaged about 100,000 visitors annually before Katrina. In the
storm's aftermath, the state's Department of Archives and History fielded
hundreds of phone calls and e-mails from people concerned about the
building's fate, said Ken P'Pool , a deputy state historic preservation
officer.

"In many ways, it symbolizes the revitalization of the entire Gulf Coast,"
he said of the home's restoration. "There are an awful lot of people who
know and recognize that building."

Beauvoir already has had two major restorations, in 1941 and 1978. This
project will be funded by a combination of public and private dollars. The
Federal Emergency Management Agency has agreed to pay for roughly 75 percent
of the $4 million.

Flowers said government red tape has slowed down the pace of the project.

"Once they start actually taking hammers to nails and start the rebuilding,"
he said, "I will feel like we've finally turned the corner."

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[The Citizen]

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:24:54 -0600, "the Bede"
<rspwsow...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>BILOXI, Miss. -- The retirement home of Confederate President Jefferson
>Davis, battered by Hurricane Katrina but still standing, is about to get a
>painstaking face lift.
>
>Later this month, workers will embark on a yearlong $4 million project to
>repair and restore Beauvoir, the only national historic landmark that
>Katrina severely damaged on Mississippi's Gulf Coast.

Why they would spend all that money to restore the retirement home of
one of history's greatest jobbers is beyond me...

--
The Citizen
"All The Effort In The World Won't Matter If You're Not Inspired."

[F~A~R~V~A: The Original Bastard]

davis was respected before and after the war by most if not all observers of
his career.

[Acolyte of Glorious La Parka~ doesn't have the patience to think of something clever here just to entertain your sorry @$$]

He's still dead.

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