KEYS HISTORY: KEY LARGO OFFERS PLENTY OF STORIES
Because Key Largo is the largest of the Florida Keys, and the Overseas Highway stretches 19.2 miles over the island, it has a lot...
MEET RAY MALONEY: SALVAGING KEY WEST HISTORY
Given his easygoing manner, it’s not immediately apparent that Ray Maloney is a Key West hero. But that designation is well deserved, as he...
WILD THINGS: DOVE HEADS & OLD-SCHOOL ORNITHOLOGY
William Earl Dodge Scott and John Wyley Atkins must have had some interesting correspondence, as evidenced by a letter Atkins once sent to Scott.
“I...
KEYS HISTORY: CUDJOE KEY ONCE SAW MILITARY ACTIVITY
What keeps getting more apparent is all the miles that go into creating the 115-mile-long Overseas Highway have stories to tell. Naturally, some miles...
KEYS HISTORY: KEY DEER AND BLUE HOLE ARE WORTH VISITING ON BIG PINE KEY
Rolling past the iconic Bahia Honda Bridge and across Scout Key, there is a really tight curve. Let it serve as a wake-up call.
Traveling...
KEYS HISTORY: ONCE A SLAVE, SANDY CORNISH PROSPERED IN KEY WEST
A formal celebration of Black history in this country began more than 50 years before Kent State University, in 1970, first celebrated Black History...
KEYS HISTORY: TRAVERSING A SERIES OF SMALL ISLANDS OFF THE SEVEN MILE BRIDGE
Like the Long Key Bridge, the Seven Mile Bridge links two geographical areas. The Long Key Bridge is the conduit linking the Upper Keys...
KEYS HISTORY: HENRY FLAGER’S FAVORITE BRIDGE
Driving along the Overseas Highway through the Florida Keys, it is easy to have your sense of direction confused. When entering Key Largo and...
KEYS HISTORY: BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION CONNECTED A SERIES OF ISLANDS
When the first version of the Overseas Highway opened in 1928, it stopped at the end of Lower Matecumbe Key. It didn’t stop for...
KEYS HISTORY: STORIES OF FARMING, THE MOB & SHIPBUILDING ON PLANTATION KEY
The island is called Plantation Key because of the farming that once happened here. It started with pineapples planted by Capt. Ben Baker and...
