By Jeffra Wise DeViney
2023 Holly Beach Crab Festival honorees Linda and Gerald Touchet, formerly of Holly Beach, were the honored business this year. For 66 years, T&T General Merchandise was a main attraction to Holly Beach not only for groceries, bait, fishing supplies and beach necessities, but for great souvenirs and novelty items. Irvine and Teresa Thibodeaux honeymooned in Holly Beach and never left, according to their son-in-law, Gerald. Touchet, a school teacher, would work summers in the store and married the Thibodeaux’s daughter, Linda.