‘Sweet Tea at the B&B’ offers hilarious take on Apalachicola’s past
“Sweet Tea at the B&B,” which debuted at the Chapman Theater Friday night, is outstandingly funny – with well written jokes, successful casting and strong set and costume …
‘Accidentally Wealthy’ played abundantly
The whodunnit Accidentally Wealthy, now at the Chapman Theater through Sunday afternoon, is not accidentally a success.
It was an intentional work of comic theater, both by the
When I was 12 or so: Petty theft and rocket science
My original title for this column was Garage Mechanics. I decided that might be misleading, as Ive never been good with my hands. When I enlisted in the U.S. Naval Air Reserve at age 20, the battery of tests included one on mechanical aptitude. There were a lot of pictures of tools to identify and…
William Shatner and Jeff Bezos flights of fancy
Environmental icon Jeff Bezos blasted his buddy William Shatner into space last week on Bezos rocket ship, Blue Origins. They used tons of fuel and discharged the huge metal rocket that held the fuel back onto Earth. Since it was from Amazons founder, the package discharged from this journey landed broken and on the wrong…
Seafood festival returns
Ottice Amison to reign as King Retsyo This past Sunday, country singer Drew Parker and his wife Mallory took their 19-month-old daughter out trick-or-treating back in Nashville. My wife got very creative, she got her little wagon and made it look like a bathtub, said Parker. She added bubbles and made it into a…
Porch Fest rocks Apalachicola lawns
The weather and community support blessed Porch Fest on Saturday, as the well-organized follow-up to last year’s impromptu musician response to COVID-19 lockdowns, proved a huge success. Beginning in the morning at Lafayette Park at the Oyster City Brewing Company stage, the event featured about two dozen musicians on porches and yards throughout the city. …
Apalachicola to enjoy Porch Fest Saturday
Get ready for Porch
Fest this Saturday, an all-day affair featuring the finest in local musicians,
appearing on porches throughout Apalachicola.
The event
stemmed from the COVID-19
A storytellers storyteller
John Milton wrote, When I consider how my light is spent. Shakespeare penned, Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. Charles Dickens began one book, It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. And Tom T. Hall gave us, I remember the year that Clayton Delaney died, Nobody ever…
Seafood festival plans November return
They bounced back after a hurricane but couldnt avoid the sucker punch of the coronavirus pandemic. But in 2021, one year after the Florida Seafood Festival was shut down for the first time in its nearly 60-year history, it will be back again, alive and well in Apalachicola, Nov. 5, 6 and 7, for the…
Red-wing blackbirds sing in grassy areas
Common names, as the term implies, is a means used by the general public for identifying any number of tangible items and abstract concepts. This nomenclature usually identifies a distinctive feature obvious to the observer. In the world of consumer products, this is a critical feature of marketing. It is imperative for the seller to…