100 Men Hall People Project

Holly Ladner

DAY 038 Holly Ladner photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). I’ve lived here 13 years; I came after Katrina doing Americorps with Habitat. I knew of the Hall but it ...

Jason McKay

DAY 037 Jason McKay photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  I heard about the Hall for the first time two years ago. There was an article that was done. I grew up i...

Martha Whitney Butler

DAY 036 Martha Whitney Butler photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). I first heard about the Hall because I knew Kerrie and knew they had bought it. I grew with the...

Herman 'Rosomo' Williams Rieux

DAY 035 Herman 'Rosomo' Williams Rieux photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). I remember dancing with all these women in here. I been coming since I was eight years...

Laura Kidd [Raw Oyster Marching Club]

DAY 034 Laura Kidd photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). I was born and raised here, but didn’t hear about the Hall till Kerrie and Jesse bought it. My first time ...

Brenda Comer [Raw Oyster Marching Club]

DAY 033 Brenda Comer photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). The first time I heard about the Hall was after Katrina when the previous owners were rebuilding it. The...

Steven Bell

DAY 032 Steven Bell photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). Steven is a member of the The Bay Ratz Marching Battery, which is a group of kids of all ages who have on...

Golden and Russell Fairconnetue

DAY 031 Golden and Russell Fairconnetue photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). Russell – I didn’t know too much about the Hall till I was 16 or 17, they had all the...

Chloe Harvill

DAY 030 Chloe Harvill photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). I was born and raised here. I didn’t hear about the Hall till after Katrina and the first time I came w...

Cynthia Mahner

DAY 029 Cynthia Mahner photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  It was after Katrina when Jesse and Kerrie renovated that I first came to the Hall. I had a friend Ke...

Edelle Griffith

DAY 028 Edelle Griffith photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). Edelle is a member of the The Bay Ratz Marching Battery, which is a group of kids of all ages who hav...

Gregory Barabino

DAY 027 Gregory Barabino photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). My first interaction with 100 Men Hall was as a teenager, it was a Bingo hall during that time perio...

Chandra Myers Dalton [Raw Oyster Marching Club]

DAY 044 Chandra Myers Dalton [Raw Oyster Marching Club] photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). The first time I heard about the Hall was the other day when Noel sai...

Susan Williams Allen

DAY 042 Susan Williams Allen photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). My parents, Douglas and Louise Williams, were born in 1922, and used to come to the Hall. This w...

Georgia McWilliams

DAY 041 Georgia McWilliams photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). From Georgia’s mother, Kim: When Georgia first walked into the Hall, she was not feeling well. We ...

Charles Sandel

DAY 040 Charles Sandel photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). I grew up in Pass Christian and didn’t hear of the Hall, but I knew there were places like it around. ...

Albert, Lillian and Avery Cooper

DAY 043 Albert, Lillian and Avery Cooper photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). We both learned of the Hall when we moved to Bay Saint Louis in 2015. We hadn’t had ...

Samuel P. Murphy, Jr.

DAY 045 Samuel P. Murphy, Jr., photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP). I took a band picture in front of McDonough’s warehouse back in the 70s. We would be on the tr...