Key West may rename — not remove — Confederate pavilion
One has to look closely at the white-colmned pavilion at Bayview Park to see the reference to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Stephen R. Mallory chapter,...
Presentation to look at first commercial saturation diving system
History of Diving Museum’s next virtual Immerse Yourself presentation is set to feature a Keys local who worked within the commercial diving industry for decades.
Set for Sept....
The Bum Farto Files: The Other Operation Conch
Key West Fire Chief Joseph "Bum" Farto disappeared on Feb. 16, 1976, while awaiting sentencing for a drug trafficking conviction stemming from Operation Conch – a sting...
Tarred and Feathered by the Key West Ku Klux Klan
The Beatles fought racism from a Key West motel. (You can read about that at keysweekly.com.) You can also fight racism. While we celebrate Key...
The Key West Race War of 1897
The Beatles fought racism from a Key West motel. (You can read more about that at keysweekly.com.) You can also fight racism. While we celebrate...
LOST …. Two readers in search of old friends — Inez and Snowball
At the Keys Weekly, we received not one, but two letters this week strangely similar. The first, from a former Keys resident, is looking to...
Love Me Do – The dark side of Mallory Square
The Beatles fought racism from a Key West motel. (See keysweekly.com for that story.)
You can fight racism, too. While we celebrate...
Slavery at Fort Taylor & Fort Jefferson
The Beatles fought racism from a Key West motel. You too can fight racism. While we celebrate Key West as “One Human Family,” we must not forget...
How the Beatles fought racism from a Key West motel
Beatlemania took America by storm in 1964, but that same year, the president of the Florida Hotel & Motel Association dumped muriatic acid on black...
The Bum Farto Files: The Ballad of Titus Walters
(Editor's Note: This week's installment of The Bum Farto Files includes details of a murder and crime scene that some readers may find disturbing.)