100 Men Hall People Project

Benjamin Davis and Jamie Sandifer

Benjamin Davis and Jamie Sandifer

DAY 214 Benjamin Davis and Jamie Sandifer photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  Jamie - I was raised on blues and rockabilly. My dad was friends with a lot of the...

Sandy Shaver

Sandy Shaver

DAY 213 Sandy Shaver photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  I’ve come here for private parties and the first one I came to was probably six or seven years ago, it ...

Shawn Negrotto Campos

Shawn Negrotto Campos

DAY 212 Shawn Negrotto Campos [Raw Oyster Marching Club] photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  The first time I came to the Hall was not long after Katrina. I cam...

Bonnie Miller

Bonnie Miller

DAY 211 Bonnie Miller photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  I moved from Pennsylvania to Mississippi in 2006 to be my dad’s nurse. He had to have open heart surge...

Gwendolyn Lawyer

Gwendolyn Lawyer

DAY 209 Gwendolyn Lawyer photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  I vaguely heard about the Hall but wasn’t sure what it was. They were not active then. This is the ...

Lisa Joseph

Lisa Joseph

DAY 208 Lisa Joseph photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  I just learned about the Hall two days ago when my sister Charlotte told me about it. At first I didn’t ...

David Joseph

David Joseph

DAY 207 David Joseph photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  I don’t remember the Hall so when people started talking about it now, I was asking where’s it at and w...

Laura Kidd

Laura Kidd

DAY 206 Laura Kidd [Raw Oyster Marching Club] photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  After being with the burlesque troop we grew to become the Raw Oyster Marching...

Rudolph C. Rosemond

Rudolph C. Rosemond

DAY 204 Rudolph C. Rosemond photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  My mother used to come to the Hall as a kid because her parents were coming here. Her mother, bo...

Sandra C. Barabino

Sandra C. Barabino

DAY 203 Sandra C. Barabino photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  I was born here, but we were very sheltered so we weren’t allowed to come to places like the 100 ...

Oscar Barabino, Jr.

Oscar Barabino, Jr.

DAY 202 Oscar Barabino, Jr. photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  I was always aware of the Hall. It was a benevolent society that helped people when they got sic...

Ann Madden

Ann Madden

DAY 201 Ann Madden photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  I definitely did not know about the Hall until I moved here and I think I learned of it when I came to se...

Constantin "Tin" Dangermond

Constantin "Tin" Dangermond

DAY 200 Constantin “Tin” Dangermond photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  The first time I came to the Hall, I was very amazed. Then the experience at the Hall - ...

Clemon P. Jimerson, Sr.

Clemon P. Jimerson, Sr.

DAY 199 Clemon “Foots” Jimerson photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  I was on the chitlin circuit, we’d play behind Big Joe Turner in Biloxi in the 60s. Jeanette...

Courtney Haggerty Leger

Courtney Haggerty Leger

DAY 198 Courtney Haggerty Leger photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  I first went to the 100 Man Hall when the Society of Travel Writers were in town for their c...

Sandra Haggerty

Sandra Haggerty

DAY 197 Sandra Haggerty photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  My daughter Bridget Castle came over and insisted I have my photo taken. She knows I do not like to ...

Aidan Castle

Aidan Castle

DAY 196 Aidan Castle photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  Aidan is a young musician, a trombone player, who is honored to be part of the history and musical lega...

Milo Stephens

Milo Stephens

DAY 195 Milo Stephens photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  I heard about the Hall when they were second lining here after the Dolly Should festival. I thought Wh...

Joanne Northridge

Joanne Northridge

DAY 194 Joanne Northridge photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  After we started going to church at St. Rose, we went to an Earth Day event at St. Rose. Bruce rea...

Carolyn Williams

Carolyn Williams

DAY 193 Carolyn Williams photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  My parents used to come because they were part of the organization. We would come here for dances o...

Queen Isabella Williams

Queen Isabella Williams

DAY 192 Queen Isabella Williams photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  I go back to when I was a little girl about 12 and I was coming to the Tom Thumb coronation ...

Geraldine Watson

Geraldine Watson

DAY 191 Geraldine Watson photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  My mother and daddy were here. My mom was here more than my daddy. She came to the dances with the ...

Ed Rafferty

Ed Rafferty

DAY 189 Ed Rafferty photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  I’m from the area and learned about the Hall from John Bezou and Pat Murphy. It came to my mind when imm...

Avalon Madden

Avalon Madden

DAY 188 Avalon Madden photographed exclusively for the 100 Men Hall People Project (100MHPP).  Whenever my parents would go to the Hall for events, I and all the other kids would go in the back and...