Low Tide Co.

11/03/2026

Pascagoula helped build the ships that carried America’s wartime cargo.

During World War II, Ingalls Shipyard built 70 C-3 cargo ships—welded-steel vessels that became workhorses of the U.S. merchant fleet. The demand transformed the shipyard: its workforce grew from about 3,000 people in 1940 to more than 12,000 at the height of production. Those ships carried supplies across the oceans while the Coast itself became a wartime boomtown. Mississippi Encyclopedia

Low Tide Fact No. 048
Source: Mississippi Encyclopedia — Social and Economic History, 1890–1954

11/02/2026

The artist behind Ocean Springs' biggest festival has a connection to Deer Island.

Before Peter Anderson founded Shearwater Pottery in 1928, he met potter Joseph Meyer while rowing out to Deer Island. Meyer had previously mentored legendary Biloxi potter George Ohr, and helped Anderson develop his interest in ceramics.

Anderson went on to establish Shearwater Pottery in Ocean Springs, helping build an artistic legacy that continues nearly a century later.

In 1978, a small arts festival began in Ocean Springs with just 56 booths. Today, the Peter Anderson Arts & Crafts Festival is Mississippi's largest fine arts festival, featuring more than 400 artists, crafters, and food vendors.

And this weekend, Low Tide Co. is excited to be part of that tradition for the very first time!

We'll be set up at Embellish on Washington Avenue in downtown Ocean Springs during the Peter Anderson Arts & Crafts Festival, November 7–8. Come find us, check out the gear, and say hello!

Source: Mississippi Gulf Coast National Heritage Area

10/31/2026

10/30/2026

Somebody once wanted to turn Deer Island into a rabbit ranch.

In 1717, a French settler asked local authorities for permission to use land on Deer Island to raise rabbits. A Mississippi Department of Archives and History archaeological report includes the request among several unusual development schemes proposed for the island. The same report says a small number of families lived there from the French colonial period into the 1960s, making a living through activities including fishing, turpentine production, and keeping cattle. mdah.ms.gov

Low Tide Fact No. 046
Source: Mississippi Department of Archives and History — Archaeological Report No. 30

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10/29/2026

Some things just go together.

A fishing rod. A Gulf Coast sunset. And a little Low Tide.

Something new is coming next week.

Live Low Tide.

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10/28/2026

Ocean Springs’ Gulf Coast Research Laboratory began with a summer botany class in a state park.

The laboratory’s first official Summer Field Program was held in 1947 at Magnolia State Park, now part of Gulf Islands National Seashore. Dr. Richard Caylor, the laboratory’s first director, taught the botany class after two decades of efforts to create a marine research center on the Coast. Mississippi lawmakers formally established the laboratory the following year. It joined the University of Southern Mississippi in 1988 and grew into one of the Southeast’s largest marine laboratories.

Low Tide Fact No. 045
Source: University of Southern Mississippi — History of the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory

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10/26/2026

Biloxi once imported seafood workers from Baltimore by boxcar.

After Biloxi’s first oyster-packing plant opened in 1881, co-owner W.K.M. Dukate traveled to Baltimore to study its canning industry. He returned with more than processing ideas: Biloxi factory owners arranged to transport experienced Polish seasonal workers south by boxcar and housed them in camps near the canneries. The first group recorded by the local newspaper arrived at Point Cadet in January 1890. Fueled largely by the booming seafood trade and its new workforce, Biloxi’s population roughly doubled during the 1880s.

Low Tide Fact No. 044
Source: Mississippi History Now — The Seafood Industry in Biloxi

10/25/2026

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Fresh off the press!

These bad boys are headed to Embellish on Monday. DM if you want a different hat/patch combo!

10/23/2026

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Brad, Jimmy, and Josh are back on the porch for 79 minutes of unscripted conversations about coastal life, growing up, good food, bad ideas, and whatever the hell else comes up.

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10/21/2026

Natalie Wood and Robert Redford once turned Bay St. Louis into a Hollywood movie set.

Much of the 1966 drama This Property Is Condemned was filmed around Bay St. Louis. Mississippi archival footage dated October 14, 1965, shows Natalie Wood stepping from a train during production, with other cast members nearby. The movie also starred Robert Redford, Charles Bronson and Mary Badham, and the city now has a walking tour connecting several filming locations.

Low Tide Fact No. 043
Source: Mississippi Department of Archives and History — Bay St. Louis filming footage