April 17 – 26, various times
Various locations, Key West

The Conch Republic Independence Celebration, (aka-CRIC) is an annual 10 day festival held each year celebrating the 1982 succession from the Union. The Conch Republic was born on April 23, 1982, in response to a United States Border Patrol Blockade of the Florida Keys. Since the United States insisted on treating the Keys like a foreign country, Mayor Dennis Wardlow seceded from the Union. Today we stand proudly as a community of who have “Sovereign State Of Mind” and as the “People who seceded where others have failed”

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