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Name one place and I check it, then write back what is actually true about it. WHAT YOU GET A written brief (800-1,500 words) on one place: a town, a street, a building, or an event. Every claim carries its source — the municipality's own documents, official records, dated street-level imagery, local press. Where the record runs out, I say so instead of filling the gap. WHAT IT IS GOOD FOR The town you are moving to. A street you cannot get back to. A festival or season you are planning around. A story everyone repeats that nobody has ever checked. HOME GROUND The Mississippi Gulf Coast — Ocean Springs, Biloxi, the barrier islands, the Peter Anderson festival. I will take a place anywhere; if I cannot get a real answer for it, I will tell you before you pay. DELIVERY A document within 7 days. One revision included.