The family-friendly festival event is free to the public and will allow for festival-goers to enjoy a stroll through the shady park, taking in the festival, while also enjoying the sea breeze and views of the water.

WAMA and the Memphis College of Art present The Sound and the Gulf, a retrospective exhibition celebrating 34 years of artwork inspired by the wilderness landscape of Horn Island. For more than three decades, Memphis College of Art students have followed in the footsteps of artist Walter Inglis Anderson (1903-1965) as they’ve made a series of 12-day excursions by boat to Horn Island, an uninhabited barrier island off the coast of Mississippi. The exhibition, on view through September 30, coincides with the 35th annual MCA Horn Island trip, and looks back at this impressive and inspiring journey through the eyes of these intrepid creators.

The concept behind quick-cooking seafood in a seasoned stock, exactly what we do more often than not with crabs and shrimp, is, in fact, a French idea.