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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.

Get ready for Bay County's one-and-only Metaphysical Festival! This highly anticipated event promises to be a transformative experience for all who attend, drawing together individuals from various backgrounds who share a common interest in the mystical and the metaphysical. We are thrilled to showcase the crème de la crème of Tarot Readers, Astrologers, Angel Card readers, and Vendors in the area, each bringing their unique talents and insights to the festival.
Whether you are looking to connect with like-minded individuals, seek guidance from the universe, or simply enjoy a day filled with positive energy and enlightenment, the Metaphysical Festival in Bay County is the place to be. Mark your calendars and prepare to immerse yourself in a world of wonder, knowledge, and community!
Crystals, fresh baked goods, 3D sculptures and so much more. No entry fee.

Join The Grove Museum on April 8th for children's storytime!
We will be celebrating National Poetry Month by reading selections from "A First Book of the Sea" by Nicola Davies at 10 AM. Storytime will be followed by an activity, and we encourage families to bring a picnic lunch to enjoy on the museum's grounds following the program.
The program is FREE and open to the public! Storytime at The Grove is recommended for children ages 8 and younger.

Join The Grove Museum on May 13th for children's storytime!
We will be reading "City Shapes" by Diana Murray on May 13th at 10 AM. Storytime will be followed by an activity, and we encourage families to bring a picnic lunch to enjoy on the museum's grounds following the program.
The program is FREE and open to the public! Storytime at The Grove is recommended for children ages 8 and younger.

How do the objects around you speak to you? Come to MoFA to co-create and celebrate Thing-Power!

Inspired by “𝙇𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧,” this freeform workshop invites you to take a brief tour of the exhibition and create works of art that explore our relationship with the things around us. Through a series of prompts, collaborative discussions, and artmaking, this event will inspire creative thinking, imagination, and reflection on how our human bodies relate to non-human objects.

We encourage you to bring personal items you would like to include in your work of art, or photos of things you feel connected to (we can even print an image for you).

Pre-registration is required; sign up through the link in our bio or talk to a MoFA staff member for more information. All materials will be provided, and free parking will be available in the Call Street Garage.

Midtown Reader invites you to an evening with Tian Sanchez-Ballado as he discusses his groundbreaking debut poetry book with Creative Writing PhD candidate Chloe Rodriguez.

ABOUT THE BOOK
In Every Fig Has a Wasp Inside, Tian Sanchez-Ballado excavates the body - queer, CubaRican, Southern, chronically ill - and asks what it means to carry what cuts and feeds you in the same breath.

These poems are not an exorcism. They are what happens when the haunting stays.

Here: Wasps dissolve into figs. Lunchables erase pastelitos. Insurance companies feast on your bones. What devours you becomes sweetness.

This isn't a coming-of-age story. It's what survival looks like when it lingers.
Not confession - canon.
Not healing - staying.

Like the fig that needs the wasp's body to fruit, these poems know:
That tenderness has teeth.
That inheritance is both wound and offering.
That sometimes, the sweetest thing you can do is refuse to be digested.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tian Sanchez-Ballado is a CubaRican-American poet, author, musician, and teacher. His Southern Gothic, post-lyric work examines how trauma, illness, and identity pass through families—what gets inherited in blood, silence, and ritual. Writing from Florida's queer margins, his poems bear witness to survival: living with chronic illness, navigating inheritance, and finding sweetness despite life's stings. A classically trained artist, educator, and scholar, he pursues his second doctorate—a PhD in String Music Education with orchestral conducting emphasis at Florida State University—and serves as Director of Education and Artistic Operations for Tallahassee Youth Orchestras, researching neuroscience, string pedagogy, and student-centered methods.