DIVING MUSEUM’S JULIA SOKOLOW TALKS 20TH CENTURY DIVING AT UPCOMING LECTURE IN ISLAMORADA
Join the History of Diving Museum at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 18 for the “Immerse Yourself!” Salvage Diving in the 20th Century, with Julia Sokolow, community...
KEYS HISTORY: CAPTURED SPANIARD SHARES A CALUSA STORY
I spend hours and hours researching the local history and then writing about it, and I do my best to share some history, tell a story and...
KEYS HISTORY: PROHIBITION SAW RAIDS & ARRESTS IN KEY WEST
During Prohibition, there was no shortage of places to acquire alcohol in the Florida Keys. Occasionally, federal Prohibition agents visited those places, often referred to as speakeasies,...
KEYS HISTORY: PROHIBITION BROUGHT OPPORTUNITY FOR THE LIKES OF CAPPONE IN THE KEYS
The National Prohibition Act, also known as the Volstead Act, was named for Andrew J. Volstead, the Minnesota Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who...
KEYS HISTORY: AUTHOR NED BUNTLINE PENNED BUFFALO BILL & BLACK CAESAR STORIES
Today, I am going to write about a man who spent time in the Florida Keys in the ’30s. He had a reputation as a fighter, was...
KEYS HISTORY: PIRACY ACCOUNTS ‘ARGH’ ASTONISHING
I did not consider studying a relevant part of the school experience in high school and those early community college semesters. Better stated, I chose to wait...
KEYS HISTORY: FIND KEY WEST PIONEERS, A LARGE LOBSTER & JESUS BENEATH THE SEA
The Florida Keys started as something other than a refuge for art and artists. It seems safe to say that the island chain has overcome its initial...
KEYS HISTORY: ISLAMORADA COMMUNITY STANDS TALL DESPITE ALL THE DOWNED TREES AND DEBRIS
We have a small concrete house on Plantation Key. When we bought it in 2012, we first fell in love with the front yard’s trees and the...
KEYS HISTORY: THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE BITTEN
The year was 1975. I had just turned 10 when the Steven Spielberg classic “Jaws” came out. On a hot summer day, I sat in a dark,...
KEYS HISTORY: THE ALBURYS & AN OLD CONCH HOME
The Reef Environmental and Education Foundation (REEF) invited me to give a talk for their “Fish and Friends” lecture series. A talk about the local history is...
