Bay St. Louis Historic L & N Train Depot — Attraction in Bay Saint Louis

This was my first time visiting this area. The historic train depot was cool with a lot of interesting historic facts I never knew about. The staff were friendly. The first floor showcased the mardi gras costumes, famous Black blues singers, the Spanish trail, the history of Mississippi from the 1700s through to hurricane Katrina. I liked how everything was displayed. The second floor was the artwork of Alice Moseley, whom I had never heard of before. The artwork was nice and showed the life and times through her eyes. However, I was triggered by a couple of the pieces, and I don't get triggered easily. Again, I understand it was history and the times she was living in. However, seeing the Grim Reaper chasing black people with his scythe in the field in one painting and an older white lady sitting in a rocking chair while three young black kids fanned her (who I assume was Alice herself) in another painting, were very triggering and I felt them to be disturbing, distasteful and disheartening to be hanging up and displayed...almost glorifying it. I didn't get pictures of those as I was in shock, I suppose. After that, I wanted to leave Mississippi all together. However, I stayed and explored the next town over. Overall, the depot itself was a...

The Mardi gras theme of the old train depot really saddened me! 😢 It's an old hysterical building that has been there for many years. Even when that road was just dust and dirt. I miss the old train theme that goes with the old train station! They used to have all the old hardwood floors, the old seats where people would sit waiting on their train. The ticket counter is now gone. There is only one bench that remains in the old train depot. I believe keeping it as it was years ago would make more sense than turning it into a modern Mardi gras museum. Oh my that's so sad to see such a wonderful part of history become something it should not be. Please, turn it back to its original beauty. A Mardi gras museum could be placed anywhere in town !...

We showed up late around closing, but we still were welcomed and shown around the museum. It was full of costumes and explained the reasons why they have parade and the beads and dablooms of Mardi Grau. They are very elaborate and I loved the displays. The bad was that I was in a rv and a spare car. This museum is tucked away in a neaborhood that is very tight for pulling a 31 ft rv trailer. So I parked on the side of the road a few miles from the museum and rode into the neaborhood to get to see it. Also do your best to find higher than normal rail road crossing.... I was not able to cross a few and backing up was not fun and could...