Fishy Fashion Celebs Strut at Mighty Mullet Festival

Coastal celebrities will be putting on the Ritz Saturday – Fishy Fashion style –at the Mighty Mullet Maritime Festival in Panacea.

Among those expected to model the very latest Forgotten Coast haute couture will be:  Wakulla County Sheriff David Harvey and his wife Rhonda, a pharmacist; Wakulla Bank President Walter C. Dodson, Jr., and his wife Susan, a Realtor; Shelly Swenson, Family and Consumer Science Agent, University of Florida extension office, Crawfordville; Ivanhoe Carroll, Realtor and Director of Animal Control, Wakulla County; Arlene Petrandis, Angelo & Sons Restaurant; plus teen and preteen Hannah Tinsley and Jenna Paige Strickland.

“When one of our models is strutting the runway in ‘fish net stockings’,” commented festival organizer Bill Lowrie, “we literally mean stockings made of fishing nets. The Fishy Fashion Show will take the Woolley Park stage at 1 p.m. to show off the latest designs in whatever the tide brought in -- including seaweed, sponges, shells, fish bones, crab shells, driftwood, and pieces of net. I’ll leave it to the imagination to wonder about a shark skin suit,” he said.

{sidebar id=1}The all-day event has been planned with the entire family in mind, with free parking, free admission for children 11 and under, and only $3.00 general admission. The festival will open at 9 a.m. and close at 4 p.m. with TV 27’s Rex Hodge returning as master of ceremonies. Woolley Park is located in Panacea, just off  Coastal Highway 98 on Dickerson Bay.

Among the supervised free activities for children will be “Panacea Nike” white boot races, egg carton boat building, mighty mullet jumping, grouper bean bag tossing, backyard bass casting, a maritime story hour, a jump rope contest, and more throughout the day. 

Other festival highlights will include the Wakulla High School Jazz Band, the popular local band Pink Shoelaces, coronation of Festival King and Queen Clark and Ann Nichols from Otter Creek, maritime exhibits and demonstrations, maritime reenactors, arts and crafts booths, and a food court. “And,” said Lowrie, “for the first time, restaurants in the International Mullet Cook-Off will also be selling seafood lunches.” 

Competing in this year’s mullet “throw-down” against defending champion Hook Wreck Henry’s is Julie Mae’s, Pirates, Spring Creek Restaurant, Wakulla Springs Lodge, and Coastal Restaurant.

This information originally published on November 15, 2008.

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