CSPAN2 May 17, 2014
Similar types of trees, live oaks, long leaf pines, palm trees, sandy soil, salt in the air. The gulf of mexico, of course, nourishes and supplies us with wonderful seafood. Estuaries and rivers and places like mobile bay are wonderfully rich in tradition and culture. And there have been books and memoirs and so forth sort of in and around all these things for hundreds of years. So its an extraordinarily rich subject to take. And then, of course, along comes the oil spill in 2010 where all of a sudden we are at center stage, and people are beginning to look at the gulf coast and think about, w...