State’s grandest seafood festival opens Friday

State’s grandest seafood festival opens Friday

The state’s “oldest” maritime festival, now in its 62nd year, opens Friday. Oct. 31 at Apalachicola’s Battery Park.  Under the regal guidance of Queen Kingsley Hopper, a Port St. Joe High School junior, and Roger Mathis, a longtime veteran of Franklin County’s seafood industry, the Florida Seafood Festival will bring thousands of visitors into the area to listen to great entertainment, stroll through an array of arts and fair booths, take in amu…