all by herself she talked tatum into doing a show on the beach in biloxi , and they got permission and camped on the beach and set up the tents , the cages , the carousel , and waited for the folks who came in dribs and drabs and then finally droves , and every year they returned to the beach in mississippi , where james could lie on the beach and watch the shrimping boats drift by and let his lungs clear up , for every year james got bronchial infections and sometimes a mild pneumonia when the leaves fell in the mountains back home .