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A U.S. Weather Bureau map details the path of the 1953 hurricane and it’s destruction. (Photo courtesy of Jerry Wilkinson/Upper Keys Historical Preservation Society)
The roots of weather forecasting in the United States date back to 1849 and stem from an overture by the Smithsonian Institute when the instrumentation used to measure and record weather was provided to telegraph companies around the country.
Posted - Thursday, May 23, 2013 04:32 PM EDT
Albert Pauls Rosillo discusses the historical and cultural links between Key West and Cuba on Friday at Key West International Airport. Rosillo's father, Domingo Rosillo del Toro, to whom a bust was dedicated, completed the first 90-mile flight connecting Key West and Cuba on May 17, 1913.
The fuel was running perilously low, and the lubricating oil was nearly exhausted, but pioneering pilot Domingo Rosillo del Toro could see land ahead.
While three guns were fired from the Havana fortress to announce his arrival, Rosillo coaxed his one-seat, bright yellow plane with an overheating engine past a flotilla of boats, over the heads of 50,000 cheering countrymen, onto the grounds of Camp Columbia -- and into history.
Posted - Monday, May 20, 2013 01:16 PM EDT
You can find mix-and-match bikinis in bright hues and on-trend styles at the Lion's Lair.
For most women, the start of swimsuit season elicits all sorts of anxiety and dread about how we feel about ourselves in our swimsuits.
If you ask a woman whether she's ready for swimsuit season, her responses will likely sound something like: I don't like how my (fill in the blank) looks in a swimsuit; I'm really pale right now; I haven't gotten a pedicure or wax in awhile.
Posted - Friday, May 17, 2013 11:00 AM EDT
Two artists in residence at the Studios of Key West unveil their independent films May 28 and 29 in the Southernmost City.
Posted - Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:49 AM EDT
Carolyn Cooper and Landon Bradbary take direction from the audience in 'Oklahoma Smith.
Audiences get into the action at the Red Barn's Theatre's world premiere of "Oklahoma Smith and the Pantheon of Annihilation," a collaboration from Key West creatives Mike Marrero and Chris Shultz.
It's a playful spoof of the "Indiana Jones" films mixed with "The Rocky Horror Show."
Posted - Friday, May 17, 2013 10:20 AM EDT
This is 'Watermelons,' a 1950 work by self-taught Key West artist Mario Sanchez.
Mario Sanchez began his career whittling wooden fish on Rest Beach next to the White Street Pier in Key West.
Charlie Thompson, who owned a marine hardware store, saw the carvings and asked Sanchez if he could sell them in his store. From that humble start, Sanchez became a folk artist of some renown, and in 1991 was recognized for his lifetime of work with the Florida Folk Heritage Award.
Posted - Friday, May 17, 2013 10:40 AM EDT
Florida Fish and Wildlife turtle program scientist Sara Schaf and Mike Shipley, owner of Island Bay Resort in Tavernier, prepare an injured sea turtle for a journey to the Turtle Hospital in Marathon. (Photo by David Goodhue)
While out fishing in Florida Bay off Key Largo Monday, friends Kerry Wingo and Mike Shipley saw something odd bobbing in the water.
Posted - Thursday, May 16, 2013 06:37 PM EDT
Captain Steve Thomas and his client John Avallone from Philadelphia hold on to another big tarpon caught on live bait in Islamorada. This tarpon was quickly released unharmed to fight another day. (Photo by Capt. Mike Makowski)
Every where I go around town people are talking about the great fishing all over the Upper Keys this past week. It’s all about the dolphin, grouper and tarpon oh my!
Posted - Thursday, May 16, 2013 06:03 PM EDT
An injured loggerhead turtle was saved by a group of good Samaritans, state wildlife police, U.S. Coast Guardsmen and Coast Guard Auxiliary volunteers Sunday.
Posted - Thursday, May 09, 2013 07:00 PM EDT
Summer cocktails (clockwise from top) are trashy red wine sangria, vodka watermelon slushie, pisco sour, and gin and bitter lemon.
The art of the summer cocktail is something I take most seriously because several years ago I realized what surely is obvious to most people. But I can be a bit slow.
Posted - Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:38 AM EDT
This carbonara pasta salad in a serving dish is great for a summer picnic.
Pasta carbonara -- richly cheesy, creamy and studded with crisped pancetta -- is easily one of the most comforting of pasta dishes.
Posted - Saturday, May 18, 2013 11:00 AM EDT
You wouldn't think French toast and chocolate go together, but looking at this, it seems a natural.
Time for a confession: As a child, I never once celebrated Mother's Day, which is on May 10. My parents thought the holiday was nothing more than a cheesy excuse to sell greeting cards, and who was I to argue? But after I became a mother myself? Oh. My. God.
Posted - Wednesday, May 01, 2013 09:00 AM EDT
Senior forester Mark Torok (right) of the Florida Forest Service and Joy Klein with the Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources Division measures trees in South Florida for national and state records, including this wild tamarind tree in Homestead. It's the largest of its kind in the country.
If someone told you that Florida has more official big trees than any other U.S. state, you might be dubious.
Does Florida have any trees that could compare to the biggest big tree of them all, the General Sherman sequoia in California, which stands 275 feet tall with a girth of 998 inches?
In fact, Florida does have some of the tallest, fattest and broadest trees -- of their species -- in the nation, and many of them are in South Florida.
Posted - Tuesday, April 30, 2013 01:49 PM EDT
It may surprise you to know that your yard is the first line of defense for the Florida’s Keys’ fragile environment.
Posted - Monday, October 13, 2008 11:28 AM EDT
The word “Xeriscape” is derived from a Greek phrase meaning “dry scene.” But Florida Keys gardeners have found that Xeriscaping – particularly the use of plants native to this area – doesn’t mean you have to settle for a stark, desert-like landscape.
Posted - Monday, October 13, 2008 11:31 AM EDT
