The Bum Farto Files: Call of the Sirens
Key West Fire Chief Joseph “Bum” Farto disappeared on Feb. 16, 1976 while awaiting sentencing for a drug trafficking conviction stemming from Operation Conch...
The Bum Farto Files: What’s In a name?
Key West Fire Chief Joseph “Bum” Farto disappeared Feb. 16, 1976 while awaiting sentencing for a drug trafficking conviction stemming from Operation Conch –...
Key West Doctor brought smallpox vaccines and the postal service to Key West
Dr. Henry Waterhouse and his son left their home in Vermont hoping the warmer climates found in the West Indies would help to fortify...
The Bum Farto Files: A Regular Joe
Key West Fire Chief Joseph “Bum” Farto disappeared Feb. 16, 1976 while awaiting sentencing for a drug trafficking conviction stemming from Operation Conch –...
krome’s impact is beyond rail
William Julius Krome was born on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, 1876, in Edwardsville, Illinois. The oldest of seven children, William was the lone son...
Hurricane interrupts railroad construction, endangers workers
The decision to run the Key West Extension of Henry Flagler’s Over-Sea Railroad from the mainland to Key West altered the future of Florida’s...
Washed out to sea
The decision to run the Key West Extension of Henry Flagler’s Over-Sea Railroad from the mainland to Key West altered the future of Florida’s...
New brickwork strengthens West Martello
West Martello Tower, the centuries-old, red-brick fortress on Key West’s Atlantic waterfront, hasn’t looked this good, or this strong, since the 1860s, when the...
things I remember
City Commissioner Clayton Lopez was in middle school when Monroe County schools integrated. He finished sixth grade at the all-black Frederick Douglass School and...
Pirate Stories!
December 19, in the piratical history books, has been an active one in the shallow waters surrounding the Florida Keys. In 1818, the Emma...
