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KEY WEST BACK IN THE DAY: REMEMBER WHEN THE MAYOR WATER SKIED TO CUBA?

A lighthearted water-skiing jaunt doesn’t usually involve Cuban gunboats and 6-foot seas. But the late Key West mayor Charles “Sonny” McCoy encountered both in...

KEY WEST BACK IN THE DAY: THE DAY MOSES ARRIVED AT DOG BEACH

It’s amazing how far some Key West residents will go in the name of hospitality.  Take me, for instance. In the early 1980s I hung...
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KEY WEST BACK IN THE DAY: NEW COLUMN EXPLORES GOOD OLE DAYS OF KEY...

By Carol Shaughnessy When I came to Key West in the late 1970s, I was a naïve 20-year-old Minnesota girl. I flew down to the...