Get ready to unleash the fun at the 2025 Apalachicola Mardi Gras Barkus Parade and Street Festival, taking place this Friday and Saturday, Feb. 21 and 22. This year’s festival promises to be bigger and better than ever, featuring the 14th annual Mardi Gras Pet Parade with the enchanting theme “Game of Bones – the…
For the past 22 years, on President’s Day weekend, Apalachicola has been the site of an annual African-American History Festival, at Sixth Street Park adjacent to the Holy Family Senior Center. Last weekend was no exception, in fact it was an exceptional festival, with a large crowd taking in the events that ran all day…
Following an enthusiastic audience response last season, the Isle Newell Fund for the Performing Arts is once again bringing world class bluegrass to its concert series. Echo Valley, a family music phenomenon of five sisters and one brother, will perform this Saturday evening, Feb. 22 at 6 p.m. the Holy Family Senior Center in Apalachicola….
Despite an overcast day with an unrealized threat of rain, the St. George Island Lighthouse’s fourth annual Shrimpfest, its chief fundraiser for the year, drew as big a crowd as it ever has. With about 2,300 attendees, Amy Hodson, executive director of the St. George Lighthouse Association, said that the event should end up netting…
The Mystic Krewe of Salty Barkers will be celebrating Mardi Gras Apalach-style bigger and better than ever this year, with a two-day party for dogs and their people. The celebration includes a lively street festival and of course the 14th annual Mardi Gras Pet Parade and takes place on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 21 and…
Hi Y’all, Happy Valentine’s Day week! Here’s to having a happy day no matter what you do. Take yourself out for a treat or sit on the beach and take in the beauty of the place where we live. The large tree in Lanark on Warren Street belonged to the Lanark Village Association, it was…
Have you thought about how you will surprise your sweetheart this Valentine’s Day? Once again Ken Schroeder is bringing his acclaimed barbershop quartet, 4 Oysters in Search of a Pearl, to Apalachicola and surrounding area to celebrate Valentine’s Day on Feb. 14. Renowned for their light-hearted repertoire and close harmonies, the quartet will sing individual…
Beautiful Bobby Blackmon showcases his electric mix of soul, gospel, Southern, delta, Memphis, and Chicago blues, along with rhythm and blues and rock-and-roll staples this Saturday, Feb. 8 at the Holy Family Senior Center in Apalachicola. Beautiful Bobby has opened for BB King and Buddy Guy, and backed Lou Rawls, Z Z. Hill, Little Esther…
Tillman and Amy Nelson drove for the third straight year 500 miles up from Margate to attend the Butts and Clucks Cookoff on the Bay BBQ event in Apalachicola. It turned out to be a charm. “We had been working at doing this for 13 years and now that I brought my electrical engineer wife…
It was a case of making the most of a bad situation, as Apalachicola’s annual fundraiser for its volunteer fire department was beset by water and it wasn’t from its hoses. In anticipation of what organizers knew would be a late morning and afternoon rain Saturday, organizers made sure they had plenty of tent space,…
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