Florida Seafood Festivals
Gulf Maritime Festival
March 6, 2010Sponge Docks, Dodecanese Boulevard between Hope and Roosevelt streets
Tarpon Springs, Florida 34689
Hillsborough County
Telephone: (727) 937-1130
Email: tbucuvalas@ci.tarpon-springs.fl.us
Focus: As one of Florida’s few remaining working waterfronts, Tarpon Springs is the perfect venue to showcase Gulf Coast maritime folk life from Cortez to the Panhandle. Demonstrations will include sponge diving and processing; making diving helmets, cast nets, mullet nets, sponging equipment, stone crab traps; mullet smoking, oyster shucking, clam farming, boat building; and regional foodways. There will be music and dance performances associated with maritime cultures, as well as interviews with tradition bearers. Free admission. This event is funded in part with a grant from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs.
