OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) - For 47 years, the Peter Anderson Festival has been a celebration of creativity, community and culture in the heart of Ocean Springs.

“Every year, there’s more and more vendors and everything,” Ocean Springs resident Charles Rosonet said. “The diversity of all the art and the craftwork is phenomenal.”

The two-day festival brings hundreds of artists from all across the country, showcasing their diverse artwork to thousands of festivalgoers.

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“We like being down here on the Coast,” Mill Creek Pottery chief potter Rucker Howell said. “I’m from Gulfport originally, so this is kind of like coming home, but there’s nothing like Ocean Springs.”

“We were like, you know what? We’d

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