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Six members of the TSC Creative Writing Club will share creative work from a variety of genres.

The Crooked River Lighthouse will be hosting Twilight at the Tower on Thursday, April 2 from 7:00-10:00 pm ET in Carrabelle, FL. This special event invites visitors to enjoy after-hours museum visits, gift shop browsing, a glowing bonfire, tower climbs, and the gorgeous natural surroundings of St. George Sound and Carrabelle Beach as evening falls and the moon rises. Plus guests will enjoy a participative experience called a ”Sound Bath”, a guided relaxation experience using calming, continuous sounds to relax the body and mind. Admission is free and evening climbs are $6 for the public, free for current members and free for those 12 and under with a ticketed adult. Climb reservations are available in the gift shop or online at crookedriverlighthouse.com/full-moon-events/.

A sound bath explores the powerful vibrations of harmonic tones as a source of healing. This unique, meditative session will be presented by The Gong Experience gongliers (gong players) Sahadev and Kasimira. The gong, an ancient instrument, when properly played resonates pure sound that can reach deep emotional places in a powerful and primal way. Guests are welcome to bring a chair and sit, watch, listen, feel and experience this meditative event.

Sahadev (Steve Brazier) and Kasimira Vogel are musicians and yogis who have devotedly studied gong techniques. They have made it their personal mission to share this special gift of healing with as many people as they can. Kasimira, Reiki Master and Meditation instructor, adds elements of Native flute and vocal sounds while infusing Reiki into the gongs for added healing.

The Keeper’s House Museum will be open for after-hours tours featuring the lighthouse’s original Fresnel lens constructed in 1894 in Paris, France. The lighthouse gift shop will offer a variety of unique nautical gifts and souvenirs, and the Beacon Bistro will have delicious baked goodies, popcorn, hot chocolate, and s’more kits available by donation. A glowing bonfire will create a perfect atmosphere for folks to kick back, relax and enjoy the evening. As the sky shifts from watercolor hues to deep evening blues, visitors are welcome to bring a chair and unwind on the lighthouse grounds.

Visitors seeking an unforgettable experience can enjoy twilight tower climbs to the top of the tallest lighthouse on the Forgotten Coast. From the top, climbers will be treated to panoramic views of St. George Sound, Carrabelle Beach and the beautiful colors of the evening sky. Climb reservations are encouraged. Evening climbs are scheduled at 15-minute intervals and cost $6 for the public and free for current members. Climbers 12 and under are free with ticketed adults and must be at least 44 inches tall.

Crooked River Lighthouse is located at 1975 Hwy 98, in Carrabelle. For details, visit crookedriverlighthouse.com or contact carrabellelighthouse@gmail.com or 850-697-2732. Funded in part by the Franklin County Tourist Development Council.

This grief support group is designed for children ages 6-12 and meets on the 4th Tuesday of each month from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Sessions take place in the Family Room at the Jean McCully Family House, located behind the Elaine C. Bartelt Administration Center at 1723 Mahan Center Blvd., Tallahassee, FL.

Children do not need to have experienced a recent loss to benefit from participating. Led by trained grief counselors, this group provides a safe and supportive space for children to express their feelings, ask questions, and learn healthy coping strategies. A pizza dinner is provided.

Led by John Grandage, these guided tours focus on the intersection of nature, culture, and history through the lens of The Grove. Topics include natural and cultural history research, urban forest management strategies, approaches to exotic invasive plant species control, and the site’s overall landscape restoration and interpretation program. This program is free and open to the public.

This is an informal program and guests can join or leave the walk at any time. Please wear comfortable shoes and be prepared to stand or walk for the majority of the tour

Led by John Grandage, these guided tours focus on the intersection of nature, culture, and history through the lens of The Grove. Topics include natural and cultural history research, urban forest management strategies, approaches to exotic invasive plant species control, and the site’s overall landscape restoration and interpretation program. This program is free and open to the public.

This is an informal program and guests can join or leave the walk at any time. Please wear comfortable shoes and be prepared to stand or walk for the majority of the tour.

The Carrabelle History Museum is hosting the Carrabelle Culture Crawl on Saturday, March 28 from 10 am to 3 pm. This cultural event is a free celebration of local culture, art, music, history, food, and fun at the Carrabelle History Museum and throughout downtown Carrabelle. This is a fantastic chance for visitors to have some fun and experience the wonderful local culture of Carrabelle. The Carrabelle History Museum is located at SE 106 Avenue B, Carrabelle, FL.

The Crawl will bring live music and entertainment to the streets of Carrabelle, with Florida folk music, classic country, modern hits, gospel, and oldies. A variety of musicians will be performing including Frank Lindamood, Sumpin' Old & Sumpin' New, Jhaki and Robert Davis, Elijah Cole Allen, and Shaken & Stirred. Visitors will spot fun, costumed characters from the Fishy Fashion Show by Joan Matey wandering the streets. These walking photo ops are a fan-favorite. Plus, the talented Lydia Countryman and friends will delight the crowd with their life-size dog puppets walking the streets.

Art will abound at the Crawl featuring local artists and artisans. Visitors can watch as artists paint “plein air” offering a glimpse at the creative process in action. Shops and galleries will feature lots of artwork available for viewing and buying. The always popular public art drawing and coloring activity will be hung in storefront windows as well as sidewalk chalk and other family friendly art activities. There will be special activities at the Rio Carrabelle Gallery for kids and adults. Guests can also stroll over to see Carrabelle’s two large, stunning murals.

Classic, vintage, and modern cars will roll into the Crawl, offering a stunning showcase for auto enthusiasts. Visitors can also enjoy demos and displays highlighting traditional skills that connect with the craftsmanship of the past. Features include quilting, cast net throwing, blacksmithing, woodworking, pottery sculpting, turpentining, rug making and more.

Carrabelle’s food scene will shine with favorites like shrimp and crab cakes, plus hearty options like burgers and mile-high deli sandwiches. Sweet treats include donuts, smoothies and energy teas. Plus local food trucks will be serving up even more delicious options including Sour Puss Gourmet Lemonade with a variety of delicious, refreshing lemonades.

Several talented authors, including Michael Kinnett, Kermit Brown, Royce Rolstad, Charles Schultz and Shelby Day, will be participating, signing and discussing their books. Guests can learn about the culture and history of the area with exhibits at the Carrabelle History Museum including Shipwrecks of Dog Island; Tate’s Hell; and the Native People’s display. Visitors can discover the bygone eras when lumber merchants, steamships, and shrimping vessels lined the deep Carrabelle River.

For more information, contact 850-697-2141, carrabellehistorymuseum@gmail.com, or www.carrabellehistorymuseum.org. Sponsored by Air Con of Wakulla, Centennial Bank, Coastal Realty Group, D & G Hardware & Supply, Duke Energy, Inovia Consulting Group, Stone’s Home Centers and Weems Memorial Hospital. Funding in part by the Franklin County Tourist Development Council.

Step into better foot health with Walk with a Doc Tallahassee.

Join us on Saturday, April 11, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at J.R. Alford Greenway for a free community walk. Dr. Currieo will share practical tips for foot health and ways to stay active, balanced, and strong.

Bring your walking shoes and enjoy a relaxed, family-friendly walk, open to all ages and fitness levels. No registration is required!

Learn More: https://walkwithadoc.org/join-a-walk/locations/tallahassee-fl/

Join us for an evening with Ian Hall as he discusses his transcendent debut poetry collection, Creekwater Mansions, with FSU creative writing professor James Kimbrell.

ABOUT THE BOOK
This debut collection of poems by Ian Hall illuminates daily life for a family and community in eastern Kentucky, all the while singing with verbal delights.

Creekwater Mansions documents the intimacy of duress. A son puffs cigarette smoke down his grandad's throat because the old man is too feeble to draw breath; retired draft horses learn to dance; the land manager's hired muscle flaunts an axe-handle; a grieving family uses a coffin as a card table; schoolboys siphon gin out of shag carpet just to catch a high. These are the variations of affection and kinship, so informed by and inextricable from the macabre tedium that abides in the back pews, dialysis clinics, and County-Line Liquors of daily life in Eastern Kentucky.

While these poems are frequently ordered around grisly attitudes and occurrences, moods of indolent provincialism, and the evermore-contagious disease of despair, these are at their core love poems. Hall writes, "Those are my people. I want nothing more than to esteem them and to show outsiders that even gruesomely human moments stripped of any decoration still have the heft and horsepower to be transcendent."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ian Hall was born and reared in the coalfields of Southeastern Kentucky. He holds an MFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and he is currently a PhD candidate in English at Florida State University. He appeared on Narrative Magazine’s ‘30 Below 30’ list, and he was named the winner of the 2025 Princemere Poetry Prize, as well as the co-winner of the Kentucky State Poetry Society’s 2025 Grand Prix Contest, and the runner-up of the 2025 Vivian Shipley Poetry Award. He was named a finalist for the 2024 X.J. Kennedy Prize, the 2024 Tennessee Williams Poetry Prize, and the 2025 Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize. His work is featured in numerous publications, including Narrative, Mississippi Review, The Journal, and American Literary Review. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

ABOUT JAMES KIMBRELL
Professor, Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, MFA, University of Virginia, M.A., Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, B.A. Millsaps College, specializes in poetry. His poems, reviews and translations have appeared in anthologies such as Best American Poetry and The Pushcart Prize, and in magazines such as Poetry, Field, Fence, Ploughshares, and The Nation. He is the author of The Gatehouse Heaven, My Psychic, and Smote, all from Sarabande Books.

Midtown Reader invites you to be reeled in to the fascinating history of fly fishing with Frank Foster, as he discusses his new book, Bonefish Dreams.

ABOUT THE BOOK
Bonefish Dreams is a light-hearted but fact-filled romp through a novelist’s almost forty-year obsession with fly fishing. Prepare to be informed and entertained by this worldwide, how-to guidebook that visits resplendent saltwater flats, upscale lodges, and some celebrities while introspectively examining the soul of the fly-fishing angler.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Before becoming a published author, Frank Foster was chairman and CEO of one of America’s fastest-growing small public companies. After his company was accquired he became a commercial real estate investor, developer, and independent venture capitalist. Frank and his wife live in Central Florida and the mountains of North Carolina as he writes, fly fishes, enjoys his wine cellars, and plays golf with his treasured friends.

Jan Dils, Attorneys at Law, is thrilled to once again host the 2026 Freedom Fun Run 5K—with both in-person and virtual options!

Be part of the action on June 27 in Parkersburg, WV, or participate virtually from June 20–26. Your participation fuels fun, fitness, and community, and 100% of proceeds benefit Veterans-related programs.

All are welcome to join—run or walk, any pace! Enjoy refreshments, entertainment, and awards on race day as we celebrate our amazing participants.

Visit our event webpage to learn more.