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...
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...
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...
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”...
Have you ever seen a Key deer? If you have never seen this diminutive creature, which is exclusive to the Florida Keys, you’re missing out on one of life’s simple pleasures. Key deer may be tiny in size, but this endangered species is big on the list of well-loved...
Light the candles and blow up the balloons! Because now through the end of March, Key West celebrates the birthday of internationally acclaimed playwright, Tennessee Williams.Born in 1911, Williams bought a modest Key West cottage in the late forties which he called...
