KEYS HISTORY: INDIAN KEY’S PORT OF ENTRY DESIRES DENIED DESPITE BOASTING CONVENIENT HARBOR AND...
Driving up and down the Florida Keys, millions of people have traveled through Islamorada and over the series of bridges and fills that link...
KEYS HISTORY: GHOSTS OF INDIAN KEY
There is an island in the Upper Keys that is home to a ghost town.
It is not a classic ghost town in the sense...
KEYS HISTORY: TRAGEDIES & DEATHS ON INDIAN KEY
Editor’s note: This is the final of a two-part series.
If ghosts are real, they would totally find Indian Key homey.
Without getting into all the...
KEYS HISTORY: A PIGEON KEY STORY
Driving along the Overseas Highway, vehicles roll over islands and past islands. Crossing over the Seven Mile Bridge offers a rare opportunity to pass...
KEYS HISTORY: THE TIP OF THE ISLAND
Roughly 1,700 islands that make up the Florida Keys archipelago. Key Biscayne is not one of them.
However, historically, it is a significant piece of...
KEY WEST BACK IN THE DAY: THE ANGELS OF DUVAL
There’s always been something magical about Old Town Key West at night. It can still be sensed today, but it was especially apparent in...
KEYS HISTORY: RAGGED, SANDS & BOCA CHITA KEY
My biggest day-to-day challenge is sleep. It used to come easily, and I could sleep for hours at a time.
Circa 2012, the long nights...
KEY WEST AUTHOR CONNECTS KEY WEST TO JFK ASSASSINATION
For decades, Key West author and historian David L. Sloan has been known for unearthing the island’s strange mysteries, from the truth behind Robert...
KEYS HISTORY: FILLING PAGES & FULFILLING MEMORIES
I was sitting at my desk signing books, filling orders placed by Shell World, the Kayak Shack at Robbie’s, the Oldest House Museum and...
KEY WEST BACK IN THE DAY: THE JALAPENO FIASCO
Working as a Key West food and cocktail waitress in the late 1970s, I learned several important life lessons. They weren’t about waitressing techniques,...
