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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

Seeking God's Help For A Wounded Gulf

The sea, the sea, the sea

Dan Barry: BON SECOUR, Ala. — In a small white building along the baptizing Bon Secour River, a building that once housed a shrimp-net business, the congregation of the Fishermen Baptist Church gathered for another Sunday service, with the preacher presiding from a pulpit designed to look like a ship captain's wheel.

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