My Ocean Springs: 2007 in Pictures

Kelsey Reid, captain of the Ocean Springs High School volleyball team, checks out the competition in the beach volleyball tournament during the festivities surrounding the reopening of the Biloxi-Ocean Springs Bridge. Normally, the Peter Anderson Festival is the biggest event in Ocean Springs, but it was upstaged just two days before the Festival in 2007 by the bridge reopening. Katrina destroyed so much when it blasted the Mississippi Gulf Coast in August 2005, witnessed most dramatically by the bridge devastation, so its reopening twenty-six months later came with great fanfare, including live music and a massive fireworks display. The reopening of the bridge served as a metaphor to many Ocean Springs residents, representing in effect the healing of the city.