Annual St. Marks Stone Crab Festival to be Held October 24

The 2009 St. Marks Stone Crab Festival will be held Saturday, October 24!  This wonderful event will be held on the main street (Port Leon Drive) of St. Marks, Florida from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.  St. Marks is located just 20 miles south of Tallahassee, Florida at the end of Hwy. 363, which dead-ends in the center of St. Marks at the beautiful St. Marks River.

The main purpose of the festival is to have an exciting event that the entire surrounding area can enjoy.  Plus, to introduce them to one of the best delicacies this area has to offer (tastes as good as lobster).  We will have live entertainment performing all day on the Florida Lottery Showvan, children's activities — very much a family event, all types of seafood will be served, as well as hot dogs, hamburgers, homemade snack foods, and stone crabs, of course!  There will also be arts and crafts vendors, horse demonstrations by the Wakulla County Horseman's Association, tours of the city, and more.

We invite one and all to this annual event to celebrate the harvesting of one of our delicious delicacies from the sea:  “The Stone Crab”.

For information about hosting a vendor booth, please contact Mickey Cantner at (850)925-7854.

Media Sponsors:

Colossal:  The Wakulla News, WCTV, Wakulla Area Times

Large:  Big Bend Area Radio Stations, Wakulla.com

Sustaining Sponsors:

Colossal:  Progress Energy

Jumbo:  Lynn Brothers Seafood, Refreshment Services Pepsi, Shell Island Fish Camp

Large:  Hang Gang Wallpaper Co., Kevin's Guns and Sporting Goods, Kimley-Horn & Associates, Inc., Mike's Marine Ways, Morton Building, Inc., Rascal Enterprise/Linda & Ray Boles, Shields Marina, Inc., St. Marks Seafood, St. Marks Yacht Club, Wakulla Bank

Floater:  Eppes Decorating Center, Frances Casey Lowe, PA, Score Federal Credit Union, Tallahassee State Bank, T~n~T Hideaway

Event Origin

Several members of the community decided to come together to help make the Annual St. Marks Stone Crab Festival one of the area's premier events.  Over the past 12 years the local restaurants — plus more recently, the St. Marks Volunteer Fire Department — worked to celebrate the opening of stone crab season.  This year the season opens October 15th.   With approximately 20 of our community citizens working together with local restaurants and the St. Marks Volunteer Fire Department, we decided to form a non-profit committee (St. Marks Stone Crab Committee) to help fund the St. Marks Volunteer Fire Department and St. Marks Waterfronts Florida Partnership (St. Marks was designated by the state as a community in need of restoration after the flood from Dennis).

We plan to make the Annual St. Marks Stone Crab Festival an event you will want to come back to year after year!

This information originally published on September 18, 2009.

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