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He fished off that pier, now a mangled jumble of wooden pylons rising from the Bay of St. Louis, seen easily on this afternoon because it’s low tide.

He dined at a first-floor dinner table, once positioned where he’s standing now, near the only remains of the four-bedroom home — fragments of the house’s cement foundation peeking out from overgrown grass.

He learned to play football here, throwing the pigskin with his two older brothers, weaving around and between the property’s 15 oak trees, many of them at least 200 years old and wider than a barrel of oil. Three of them remain on the land; a dozen others were uprooted and carried out to sea, victims of the biggest natural disaster to hit this town.