Jo Dee Messina To Perform In Gulf Shores

Jo Dee Messina will be the featured musical entertainment at the 37th annual National Shrimp Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama on Friday, October 10, 2008 at 8:30 p.m. This country music singer-songwriter who has charted nine Number One singles on the Billboard country music charts, will no doubt be a big hit at this popular festival located directly on the Gulf Coast beach.

Two music stages are provided at the National Shrimp Festival which is attended by over 300,000 visitors during the four-day event (October 9-12, 2008). And best of all the admission to the event is FREE. There are hundreds of vacation rental condominiums located nearby and shuttle service is available for convenience.

If you have not yet reserved your Shrimp Festival weekend getaway you can do so with Meyer Real Estate online at MeyerRE.com or by phone or call 866-200-6979 and provide promo code S-8SS to take advantage of our Shrimp Festival discount. Call or click today to assure yourself a front-row spot at the Jo Dee Messina concert next month.

SS Republic Treasure Abounds Near Gulf Shores

Discover Civil-war era shipwreck treasure at a most unusual place - the Baldwin County Heritage Museum in Elberta, Alabama (a few miles north of Gulf Shores). The Odyssey Marine Exploration company, who found the lost SS Republic which sank 1,700 feet below the surface of the Atlantic, chose this unique location for their world-class exhibit because the company's co-owner has strong family roots in the little town of Elberta.


The entire family will enjoy viewing remarkable samplings of the 51,000 gold and silver coins and nearly 14,000 artifacts from the shipwreck. Visitors will learn about the courage and survival of the passengers and crew of this paddlewheel steamship that succumbed to a Hurricane off the coast of Georgia in October 1865 while enroute from New York to New Orleans. This vessel participated in the Battle of Mobile Bay before being turned into a passenger ship so there are strong connections of this ship to South Alabama.

The museum opens Wednesday thru Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the cost is only $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and $8 for children to view an amazing slice of history.