by Pamela Childs | Apr 28, 2021 | Explore
Known for its raucous bars, wild parades and people watching, Duval Street is the most recognized street in the Florida Keys and is also a prime destination point for anyone heading down to Key West. Nicknamed “the longest street in the world” because it runs from the...
by Pamela Childs | Apr 28, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Explore
Artist Andy Thurber at Key West’s highly acclaimed Gallery On Greene Key West has long been a creative haven for some of our country’s biggest literary giants. Among them, Key West denizen Tennessee Williams, one of the greatest playwrights of the twentieth...
by Pamela Childs | Apr 13, 2021 | Explore, What's Up
The Conch Republic (AKA Key West and the Florida Keys) like many nations was born from trouble. The trouble started back in the dark days of March 1982, when the US Federal Government placed a Border Patrol Roadblock at the Last Chance Saloon in Florida City.A...
by Pamela Childs | Mar 29, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Explore
Even in the darkest times, art lights the way. And so it did in 1934 when our entire country was in the depths of the Great Depression. Like the rest of the US, Key West, too, had fallen on hard times. Despite having been the wealthiest US city per capita in the...
by Pamela Childs | Mar 29, 2021 | Explore, Good Eats
It was in November 1984 when Paul and Evalena Worthington quietly sailed into the Key West Bight on their classic 1926 Alden Schooner Defiance. Anchored by sea battered shrimp boats and buffered by wooden shanties selling nautical wares, the rough and ramshackle...
by Pamela Childs | Mar 16, 2021 | Explore, What's Up
Some of Key West’s biggest Blowhards raise their sheets to the wind for Schooner Wharf Bar’s legendary Wrecker’s Cup Race Series, a raucous 7-mile sail to nearby Sand Key. The first and second legs of this year’s “Day of Wreckoning”...
