These are my memories since April 1947, when Tex Campbell and I came to the Keys on our honeymoon and fell in love with the color of the water, the gorgeous cloud formations of the sunsets, and all the flowering trees and plants.
Posted - Sunday, July 13, 2008 03:00 AM EDT
Later this month, an anniversary will pass largely unnoticed except for a few history buffs who simply love anything to do with lighthouses.
Posted - Monday, June 23, 2008 10:25 AM EDT
Visitors stroll outside the Harry S Truman Little White House Museum in Key West.
It’s the place where Harry S. Truman did all of his presidential work during the winter months, where Dwight D. Eisenhower created the U.S. Department of Defense and where John F. Kennedy may have made a decision that averted World War III.
Posted - Tuesday, May 27, 2008 09:49 PM EDT
Despite a lifetime of Florida Keys adventures, native-born Joe Pinder knows exactly what was happening in his life in February 1953.
Posted - Sunday, July 13, 2008 03:00 AM EDT
It’s been said that most women who came to live in Marathon in the 1950s hated the place and that many, if not most, left. Not Sylvia Puto.
Posted - Sunday, July 13, 2008 03:00 AM EDT
My earliest memories of the Keynoter building? It was my home. I lived there for about two years.
Posted - Sunday, July 13, 2008 03:00 AM EDT
There wasn’t much to the Middle Keys in the 19th Century, but that all changed at the turn of the century.
Posted - Sunday, July 13, 2008 03:00 AM EDT
I was born in Key West but have lived in Marathon all my life,” Pat Kitchen said. What sounds wrong about that statement is actually right.
Posted - Sunday, July 13, 2008 03:00 AM EDT
When Ralph Cunningham, founder of the first law firm in Marathon, arrived in the Middle Keys in 1953, there wasn’t an attorney practicing between Homestead and Key West. And, according to Cunningham, that’s the way some of the locals wanted it.
Posted - Sunday, July 13, 2008 03:00 AM EDT
We’re a funny bunch down here in the Florida Keys, with a slew of myths, traditions and superstitions to match our wily ways. While it may be one thing to worry about a black cat crossing your path (a six-toed one at that), make sure you roll at least one marble underneath your house and never, ever bring a conch shell inside. You’ll be doomed for decades if you don’t take heed.
Posted - Sunday, June 29, 2008 04:10 PM EDT
