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...
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...
