My Ocean Springs: 2007 in Pictures

Twenty-eight months after Hurricane Katrina washed it away, Shannon Lawler (left) oversees the pouring of the concrete for his family’s new house. The historic storm completely removed the Lawlers’ beautiful two-story home from it’s piers at the end of Lover’s Lane, and for two years they battled insurance companies, new building regulations, and construction plans. Yet as typifies the residents of the Gulf Coast, in spite of the challenges, the family never lost their spirit to rebuild.