A Year With Judy Toups
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| Introduction | Judy Toups (1930-2007) was considered the "mother of birding" on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and wrote a weekly column in the local newspaper for over 30 years. Rather than let her words remain in the archives, libraries and private collections - never to be in the public eye again - a group of her friends has gathered all of her articles and edited them, choosing 52 of their favorites. We plan to post these on a weekly basis over the course of the year with each article relevant to that particular week. This celebration of Judy could not have happened without the hard work of the editors: (reading one month each) Sylvia Bogart, Ned Boyajian, Janet Wright, Alison Henry, Tish Machado, Nancy Madden, Millie Page, Martha Coghlin) and special thanks go to Kim Anderson, Sharon Milligan and Jay Morris for (in addition to editing) scanning hundreds of articles for this project. Many thanks also to the Biloxi Library Historians (E.W Suarez, Jenny White and Jane Shambra) for their tireless help in retrieving files from the archives. |
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