Check out the online version of Celebrating Our Past, a history feature put together by Dan Gallagher that appears Saturdays in the Keynoter. It's a work in progress, so keep checking back. Send your own photos of Keys history to keynoter@keynoter.com.
Posted: Sunday, November 15, 2009 09:34 AM EST
Alan Schmitt came to the Keys for the same reason most people do — the warmth. There was just one small difference.
Posted: Sunday, July 13, 2008 03:00 AM EDT
In 1992, collectibles dealer Chuck Faulkner made an unusual discovery in a bag that was discarded from a storage unit in Kissimmee. It was filled with close to 170 paintings by Harry J. Sonntag, who was also known as the “Hermit Artist of Key Largo.”
Posted: Sunday, July 13, 2008 03:00 AM EDT
Irving Eyster’s interest in archaeology started when he was growing up in Indiana. He and his grandfather would go looking for old mill remains or houses that had long been abandoned.
Posted: Sunday, July 13, 2008 03:00 AM EDT
Marathon’s Bettye Chaplin says her success in the real estate business can likely be traced back to the impact a famous scene in the classic 1939 movie “Gone With the Wind” had on her mother, Lida Bateman.
Posted: Sunday, July 13, 2008 03:00 AM EDT
Marathon’s Pete Cavanah has seen a lot of technology come and go during his 87 years, first in Chicago during the heyday of radio, and later in the Keys as the new medium of television began to gain in popularity.
Posted - Sunday, July 13, 2008 03:00 AM EDT
Keys archaeologist Duncan Mathewson wasn’t surprised when he heard an idea to attach metal detectors to dolphins in the hopes they would uncover treasure buried beneath the Caribbean sand.
Posted - Sunday, July 13, 2008 03:00 AM EDT
At the beginning of World War II the U.S. military saw a need for a practice landing strip for pilots-in-training. The Civil Aeronautics Association, a government agency, determined that a parcel of land then owned by two Key West men, Norberg Thompson and Maitland Adams would be suitable.
Posted - Sunday, June 29, 2008 02:04 PM EDT
"The main thing I remember is that back in the early ‘50s, everybody knew everybody.”
Posted - Sunday, July 13, 2008 03:00 AM EDT
I first came to Marathon with the Sunshine Fins Skin Diving Club from St. Petersburg. The year was about 1962.
Posted - Sunday, July 13, 2008 03:02 AM EDT
