History Mystery ---- Tales and Tour
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Friday, October 30, 2009, 6 to 9pm
Starts at the Connor Library in the Old Fort Park
Admittance fee: $5 and up to $15 for families.
New Smyrna Beach Water Taxi additional $5 fee.
Come follow a strange and eerie path of fun to the excitement in the Canal Street Historic District of New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Join us, the day before Halloween, Friday October 30, 2009, 6 to 9pm, for a special fun event, including “Yarns of the Strange Kind” featuring live from PBS Television & Mysteries Magazine, Florida’s own Master of the Weird, Charlie Carlson, author of the best seller, "Weird Florida" at Nuns and Roses. Plus...At the Night Swan Intracoastal Bed & Breakfast, Florida's leading Cryptozoologist and Monster Hunter, Scott Marlowe, as seen on "MonsterQuest" and "Is It True"?
Wear your walking shoes to enjoy the tour of the New Smyrna Beach Historic Canal Street downtown that will include mystery and historical stories performed by recreated personalities from our city’s past. The eerie path of fun down Canal Street will be narrated by Richard Sturge, a director of the New Smyrna Museum of History. Also a hayride or the city’s water taxi will transport the participants between our district’s B&B’s Nuns & Roses and the Night Swan on the Intracoastal.
The event will end with a 56 minute TV preview from the PBS show, "Weird Florida: Roads Less Traveled", featuring Florida’s own Master of the Weird, Charlie Carlson and sidekick Miss Scarlet at Nuns & Roses beginning at 8pm.
Halloween Saturday, October 31, 2009 – Halloween Scavenger Hunt @ 2:00 PM followed by New Smyrna Beach City’s Annual Halloween Parade on Canal Street and Costume Judging @4:00 PM, by parks and recreation department of New Smyrna Beach. Businesses and nonprofits will be handing out candy for the trick or treaters.
