The real life mermaids of Florida’s Weeki Wachee Springs

Huck: In the Newton Perry Underwater Theatre, a steel-drum cover of ​‘Under The Sea’ plays on repeat over tinny speakers. The crowd is the kind you only ever assemble in the offseason, on the cheap midweek slot, a glorious cross-section of the American interior: tattooed young fathers bouncing toddlers on their knee, both in matching Ariel shirts; rows of patient senior citizens with nowhere better to be; a troupe of glittered Disney adults who have clearly made a day of it.