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Mardi gras merriment graces Apalachicola
It was quite a downtown scene Saturday as hundreds of people lined Water Street for The Mystic Krewe of Salty Barkers’ annual Mardi Gras Parade and celebration.
The pirate theme this year brought out plenty of eye patches and skull-and-crossbones flags, and the parade was the lengthiest in memory, complete with the Lofty Pursuits marching band, a second line of dancing “witch wenches,” and scores of folks walking their pirate pooches.
Organizer Caroline Ilardi said the finally tally may indicate that the festivities brought in double the usual take, with monies going to the Franklin County Humane Society and the Florida Wild Mammal Association as well as funding the Apalachicola City Dog Park.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.