Cat Island Coffee - Ocean Springs, MS

07/08/2026

We wanted to debut a complex, celebratory cup and one agile enough to commemorate countless other kinds of occasions.

Ya’ll already know; our U.S. Constitution Blend is the official brewed coffee for The Open Hart Sessions: Coastal Edition.

In the spirit of Irvin Berlin and Lee Greenwood, we sing…



Danica Hart❤️❤️❤️

Now drop your favorite patriotic tune in the comments!

07/08/2026

The 2026 Pulitzer Prize-winning, Jill Lepore’s, “We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution,” is our barista-bookseller reading recommendation this month. Please feel free to like, share, and or share your thoughts in the comments as you read with us.


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06/27/2026

Lavished with lots of local love from our coffee cohorts at Lucedale Coffee House / Opossum Coffee Company. Thank you Savanna and John for gifting us samples: a single-origin Espresso from Brazil, Costa Rica Tarrazu, an Organic Ethiopia and, of course, the small batch, Master Roaster’s proprietary, Honey Processed Peru.

And, what a great photo memorializing the moment we tossed aside the capitalist-competitive nature of our entrepreneurial pursuits in order to do something much more civil and deeply human: make community.

06/19/2026

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05/27/2026

Cat Island Coffeehouse - Pass Christian, MS

05/19/2026

Pass Books - Gulfport, MS
Pass Books - Ocean Springs, MS
https://passbooksonline.com/book/9781668064269

Happy Publication Day to On Witness and Respair by Jesmyn Ward 🎉

In these luminous essays, Ward reflects on love, loss, injustice, and the stories we carry — offering a profound meditation on what it means to survive and to create.

Available now:
https://bit.ly/4v8csAs

04/08/2026