Accolades for Fern Butters’ Key lime pie, Sombrero (the vanishing) Key & Browne v....
Accolades for Fern Butters’ Key lime pie
While the lovely Barbara Cockerham is Islamorada’s current Key Lime Pie Lady, she was not the first.
The original...
Celebrating 20 years: Marathon’s roots traced back to property rights
While Marathon earned its moniker from the laborers toiling on the Overseas Railway, property rights were the main catalyst for the incorporation of the...
The Mysterious Handprint at Pigeon Key
A Spanish superstition warns that if a bird sings outside your window at night, a death will occur in your home the following day....
Local group working to acquire Alligator Light
Ask Larry “Lighthouse” Herlth what it would mean to obtain the iconic, historic marvel in Alligator Lighthouse, and he’ll tell you it would be...
’35 storm most powerful ever
The Category 5 1935 Labor Day Hurricane is still the most powerful storm ever to strike North America. While the killer hurricane accounted for...
Information being sought on Fishermen’s anchor
As the rebuild of Fishermen’s Community Hospital continues, so does the restoration effort on a key feature that sat outside the facility.
The anchor located...
Key Lime Legends – The Cookie Lady
Hundreds of people peddle sweets in the Florida Keys, but few rise to the iconic status of Marilyn Kellner, better known to the world...
Keys History: Attack at Indian Key – From settlement to community – Politics rears its...
Attack at Indian Key – Upper Keys History
In the early morning hours of Aug. 7, 1840, some 130 Indians paddled out to Indian Key and...
The History of Green Key Lime Pie
Residents of the Florida Keys know Key lime pie is yellow, but if you follow #keylimepie on Instagram or find yourself lost in the...
Pirates? Aye, but…
It seems as if pirates and the Florida Keys should go together like rum and lime. And they do, in the sense that stories...





















