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History Unchanged – The Elizabeth Bishop House on White Street
When the poet Elizabeth Bishop first visited Key West in 1937 she sent letters to faraway friends describing the island.
"The houses here, with all their scrollwork that looks as...
Environment
WILD THINGS: BIRD MIGRATION IN THE KEYS
You want to see signs of rain when you wake — puddles that weren’t there the night before, maybe wet streets. You don’t want it to have rained too...
In Their Own Words
WILD THINGS: NORTHERN GANNETS ARE THE POINTY-HEADED MOUTH-BREATHERS OF THE SEA
The wind was up, so it was likely to be “sporty” crossing the Northwest Channel, but as I cleared the anchorage behind Wisteria Island and moved through the first...
Wild Things
WILD THINGS: Drama in the distant treetops
Certain aspects of your life are hard to explain. For instance, I would not want to answer to a jury of my peers why I wasted so much time...
Environment
WILD THINGS: SINGING WITHOUT KNOWING THE WORDS
There’s an oft-quoted line from “To Kill A Mockingbird”: “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy … but sing their hearts out for us....
In Their Own Words
WILD THINGS: SOUTHERN SEADUCK REDUX
When I got there, Ellen Westbrook was standing on the South Roosevelt seawall with her binoculars up, staring out at the horizon, which was a bad sign.
Gah, I thought....