The Conch Republic’s true colors were on full display for the 41st annual Conch Republic Parade. The island’s 10-day independence celebration recalls the Southernmost City’s secession from the Union in the 1980s, in protest of federal agents stopping and searching cars for drugs at the top of U.S. 1.
The April 27 parade featured prominent public figures, pirates, writers, pets and performers, all strutting down Duval Street carrying the Conch Republic flag and reminding spectators, “We seceded where others failed.”
