The 2019 Festival and special event season has kicked off in Northwest Florida, recently celebrating the St. Andrews Mardi Gras in Panama City, Pier Park Mardi Gras in Panama City Beach, Emerald Coast Cruzin’, and Bonifay’s Down Home Street Festival, soon to be followed by a plethora of events highlighting the culture, heritage, atmosphere and quality of life in rural Northwest Florida.
Coming soon will be the 2019 Panhandle Watermelon Festival, a snapshot of the culture, heritage, atmosphere and quality of life in rural Northwest Florida. and this year occurring on Friday, June 28 and Saturday, June 29.
Once again ‘Real Florida Magazine’ will document the Panhandle Watermelon Festival, in photos and video clips, as it has for the past dozen years, and here’s a photographic retrospective look at the 2011 Panhandle Watermelon Festival Friday evening concert, when we all had more hair, fewer wrinkles and even fewer pounds, as seen by Real Florida Media, a subsidiary of The Gouldng Agency in Chipley, Florida.