For the first time in three decades, former state legislator Ken Sorensen wakes up without a planned schedule of meetings or daily agenda.
Posted: Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:27 PM EDT
History
Actors re-create a historic battle on Indian Key, one of the oldest inhabited islands in the Upper Keys. The island, which was the county seat of Dade County in the 19th Century, is now a state park.
Islamorada may contain hundreds of historically or archeologically significant sites, including two neighborhoods that could be preserved as historic districts, according to a comprehensive study finished last week.
Posted: Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:20 PM EDT
Bruce Popham stands in front of Sue M. Moore's Marathon home, which was moved Monday to his boat yard. Also moved was her son's home, on the right.
One of the oldest homes in the Middle Keys got a new home of its own this past week. Whether it will stay there or move again remains to be seen.
Posted: Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:11 PM EDT
Sally Smith, a graduate of the Harris School, points out for daughter TayLynn the spot where she and her classmates took their school photos beneath a kapok tree.
Pausing at 812 Southard St., in the middle of a postcard-perfect Old Town Key West residential neighborhood, two things are clear.
Posted: Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:05 PM EDT
Some of the most arresting passages in the new book by Thomas Neil Knowles, Category 5: The 1935 Labor Day hurricane are the descriptions of how small children and babies perished in the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, many of them torn from their parents' arms by the force of the storm.
Posted: Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:02 PM EDT
- Former Keys sheriff dies at age 73
Henry Haskins, who died Tuesday, was a former Keys sheriff.
Henry Haskins, a former Monroe County sheriff, died Tuesday morning at age 73.
Posted - Thursday, September 17, 2009 11:59 AM EDT
- Historic Key Limeade gets a fresh new look
The old Key Limeade building, near Snake Creek on Plantation Key, sports a new coat of paint and artistic designs.
The eight-decade history of the Key Limeade building on Plantation Key faded with the years, slowly ebbing away behind locked doors and layers of road grime.
Posted - Thursday, September 17, 2009 11:40 AM EDT
- Trail is newest legacy of Flagler’s railroad
The Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail exists thanks to Henry Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railway.
Posted - Sunday, July 05, 2009 11:43 AM EDT
- Key West tour highlights WPA’s role in arts, culture
Key West has a rich cultural and artistic past and present that is sometimes overshadowed by the lure of the Duval Crawl; but, some locals are working hard to preserve what they see as the Southernmost City’s finest attraction: art and artists.
Posted - Sunday, July 05, 2009 11:53 AM EDT
- Islamorada takes stock of historic sites
Actors re-create a historic battle on Indian Key, one of the oldest inhabited islands in the Upper Keys. The island, which was the county seat of Dade County in the 19th Century, is now a state park.
In the early 1900s, agriculture — not tourism — dominated the economy of Islamorada.
Posted - Saturday, July 04, 2009 12:08 PM EDT
