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George Jones Scheduled ForPanama City Seafood FestivalCountry Singer George Jones and the Jones Boys will be the star attraction for the 1985 Indian Summer Seafood Festival at Panama City Beach Oct. 12-13.Jones, known as the “Country singer of country singers”, will perform a 90 minute show starting at 8 p.m. Saturday night. The annual seafood festivalwill be held at the city park located on U.S. Alt. Hwy 98 adjacent to the city pier. Admission to the festival willbe $1 per person both Saturday and Sunday with the exception of Saturday night when Jones will perform. Admission for the Jones show will be $2 with theprice going up at 6 p.m.Persons already on the grounds at that time will not be required to pay the additionalcost.The George Jones show willconclude the day-long entertainment program that gets underway around 11:15 a.m. followingcompletion of theopenceremonies.The 1985 festival opens with a parade starting at 9 a.m. at the Beach Civic Center. It will proceed to Alt U.S. Highway 98 and travel east to the city park.As the visitors gather a marching band, tentative the Fort Rucker Army band, will play until the officialopening ceremonies are started at 11 a. m.Upon completion of the ceremony, the Jubilee Cloggers will ‘‘kickoff ’ the continous daylong entertainment program.The festival will mesh severalcontrasting forms of musical entertainment. The SouthsideString Band, a blue grass ensemble, will perform its brand of music, while later, Flipside, a light rock group will play.In between the two bands, another ensemble, The Kessler Air Force Base Jazz Band, will belt out a few tunes.While contrasting sounds will II the beach air during theweekend, two varying dance arts are also expected to be on hand.The Jubilee Cloggers, the Cloverleaf Cloggers, and the Big River Cloggers are scheduled Saturday. Later in the afternoon, Barbara Strausbaugh will entertain with iazz exercisejazzdancing.Florida State University isscheduled to perform a circus act with the famed FSU Circustwice on each day of the festival.As the day’s entertainment programs come to an end with the concluding of the GeorgeJones Show, a fireworks displaywill close out the first festivalday.railThe festival’s entertainmentContinous entertainment willopens again Sunday morning with an hour-long gospel concert by the Free Spirit Singers starting at 10 a.m.again follow throughout the day until the FSU Circus ends the festival with their fourthperformance.Traveling being an experience to be savored, it's easy to understand why dining mt in local restaurants is an important part f any vacation.Literally as well as figuratively, it gives*ravelers the opportunity to enjoy the flavor of a country — the regional foodstuffsand preparations which reflect landscape, traditions, and an almost indefinable at mosphere, which is usually referred to as a place’s characterIt’s also an important part of the adventure of traveling — memories are made of leisurely meals in neighborhood bistros; picnics on wine, cheese and freshly baked bread in local parks, snacks eaten on the run, from piping hot crepes filled with chocolate sauce from a Parisian vendor, to steaming souvlaki dished up in Athens.To enjoy a fine meal in an elegant, world-class restaurant is one thing — it's a wonderful, memorable experience but, with few exceptions, it has little to do with the region.To eat in Lutece or Tour d’Argent or Spago, you could be any where in the world, not specifically in New York, Paris r Los Angeles.Rather, my culinary revelations tend to cur unexpectedly, in the least likej laces, and are all the more dramatComphit Horn Farm thingiAt the age of 13,1 visited Los Ang armers' Market and carried awaynot, only the memory of fragrantnd vegetables in colorful displays, but*cmory of m ‘ *Uade, swcctjRiaI was 3aste it aptX -VAmmchildnary paradise,of plea hold.W month \' son — e ingly pi I’ve n, fore or si gloriousto me of that Ion cry, Italy through of romantic tende way, a rcvclat] Years pa? pericnce, have visit** v'' their food Crete is t wild along the r Mount Ida toweil fr,wi'i•se be' altogetI\« .wrregions r and savor o.itiProvence is the countryside ates the air.And Rome,Rome for me is summer pasta i door restParioli di pasta drcfresh rawof garlic, tang away, fresh basil A pot of basi apartment in which Ivisits to Rome, and s found their way into iearJl ------ir.^^hrrfirfhmmni Vr—: _— C—.-..j zST'.'T:::r-~~ImmSSSSRt,iis:Yes, Rome for metomatoes and moz lent veal shanks in casional bite of hot What of Greece? scenting rich, creamyicate butter cookie®OURWe haveWe couldEarly Amistylings i
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