There’s more than meets the eye with the popular Tampa Bay tradition of a pirate invasion and a parade of beads flying through the air. Tampa Bay Times reporter Gabrielle Calise explained how the first Gasparilla had a krewe that rode in on horses instead of a floating ship. Many other lesser-known facts from generations ago were exposed as she also highlighted aspects of recent history, such as how Gasparilla didn’t integrate until the 1990’s.
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