From sweet calypso music to yummy Key lime pie, this adorable board book invites little ones to explore all the sites, sounds, and tastes the Florida Keys has to offer, including conch shell blowing, boating, fishing and diving, Seven Mile Bridge, Bahia Honda State Park, Fort Jefferson, Key deer, Mallory Square, Duval Street, treasure hunting, sea life, and more.
Native Conch Scott Atwell celebrates the 50th anniversary of Jimmy Buffett's 1971 arrival in Key West by revealing the backstories to many of the singer's classic songs
“Seldom-told tales of the ‘lively and unusual cast of historic figures’ who helped shape the Florida Keys from the 1820s through the 1960s.”—Keys News The Florida Keys have witnessed all kinds of historical events, from the dramatic and the outrageous to the tragic and the comic. In the nineteenth century, uncompromising individuals fought duels and plotted political upsets. During the Civil War, a company of “Key West Avengers” escaped their Union-occupied city to join the Confederacy by sailing through the Bahamas. In the early twentieth century, black Bahamians founded a town of their own, while railway engineers went up against the U.S. Navy in a bid to complete the Overseas Railroad. When Prohibition came to the Keys, one defiant woman established a rum-running empire that dominated South Florida. Join Laura Albritton and Jerry Wilkinson as they delve into tales of treasure hunters, developers, exotic dancers, determined preservationists and more, from the colorful history of these islands. Includes photos
Presents a collection of more than two hundred recipes using Caribbean seafood and seasonal ingredients found in the Florida Keys, with stories about local culinary traditions behind the dishes.
Literary Nonfiction. Jewish Studies. History. 2017 Florida Book Award, Phillip and Dana Zimmerman Gold Medal for Florida Nonfiction. The dramatic story of South Florida's oldest Jewish community and a major addition to the history of this unique island city. Long before Miami was on the map, Key West had Florida's largest economy and an influential Jewish community. Jews who settled here as peddlers in the nineteenth century joined a bilingual and progressive city that became the launching pad for the revolution that toppled the Spanish Empire in Cuba. As dozens of local Jews collaborated with José Martí's rebels, they built relationships that supported thriving Jewish communities in Key West and Havana at the turn of the twentieth century. During the 1920s, when anti-immigration hysteria swept the United States, Key West's Jews resisted the immigration quotas and established "the southernmost terminal of the Jewish underground," smuggling Jewish aliens in small boats across the Florida Straits to safety in Key West. But these and other Jewish exploits were kept secret as Ku Klux Klan leaders infiltrated local law enforcement and government. Many Jews left Key West during the 1930s and their stories were ignored or forgotten by the mythmakers that reinvented Key West as a tourist mecca. Arlo Haskell's THE JEWS OF KEY WEST is an entertaining and authoritative account of Key West's Jewish community from 1823-1969. Illustrated with over 100 images, it brings to life a history that had long been forgotten.
True stories of writers and pirates, painters and potheads, guitar pickers and drug merchants in Key West in the 1970s. For Hemingway and Fitzgerald, there was Paris in the twenties. For others, later, there was Greenwich Village, Big Sur, and Woodstock. But for an even later generation—one defined by the likes of Jimmy Buffett, Tom McGuane, and Hunter S. Thompson—there was another moveable feast: Key West, Florida. The small town on the two-by-four-mile island has long been an artistic haven, a wild refuge for people of all persuasions, and the inspirational home for a league of great American writers. Some of the artists went there to be literary he-men. Some went to re-create themselves. Others just went to disappear—and succeeded. No matter what inspired the trip, Key West in the seventies was the right place at the right time, where and when an astonishing collection of artists wove a web of creative inspiration. Mile Marker Zero tells the story of how these writers and artists found their identities in Key West and maintained their friendships over the decades, despite oceans of booze and boatloads of pot, through serial marriages and sexual escapades, in that dangerous paradise. Unlike the “Lost Generation” of Paris in the twenties, we have a generation that invented, reinvented, and found itself at the unending cocktail party at the end—and the beginning—of America’s highway.
Henry Flagler's Long Key Fishing Camp was very different from the other resorts Flagler built along the east coast of Florida, but the serene grounds and unparalleled fishing grounds inspired fierce loyalty among its clientele. Thomas Knowles offers the first history of this beloved getaway.
This book contains stories and photos collected over a period of four years in the fabulous Florida Keys. Inshore and offshore saltwater fishing experiences and techniques abound. Florida Keys photos (in black and white), fishing columns by C.J. Geotis, recipes, underwater photos, personal stories, fishermen, fisherwomen, big fish, strange fish, Gulfstream adventures, wahoo, dolphin, mahi mahi, blackfin tuna, yellowtail snapper, mangrove snapper, flying fish, sailfish, and many more are all here. This is the perfect coffee-table book for anyone interested in the Florida Keys, offshore fishing, saltwater fishing and boating. Florida Keys Fish Stories is also a thoughtful and treasured gift for almost anybody. The stories are written in the distinctive style of C.J. Geotis and never fail to remind you that life is good in the Florida Keys; life is very good in the Florida Keys. 43 individual, and light-hearted, stories explore the ups and downs of Florida Keys fishing and the lives and relationships of those who love it.
Visit 50 more film locations in the Florida Keys made famous by the Netflix series Bloodline. This is the second book in the series and features film locations from season 2 and season 3 including Sally and John's crash site, the famous Rayburn Inn, Marco's home where he was murdered, John's gun range, Kevin's marina, Ozzy's suicide location, Eric's hideaway shack, Kevin's nervous breakdown spot, Marco's funeral location, the park where John confesses, Marco and Meg's engagement tiki, Eric's jail and courthouse, the Bloodline production lot, Danny's graveyard, Rayburn drinking holes and more. This tour book and location guide is an excellent companion to any trip down the Overseas Highway in the Florida Keys. It is also a fantastic read for any Bloodline fan. Each location includes a scene description, behind the scene information, directions on getting there and information on where and when in the series the location first appeared so you can easily find it to go back and watch again. The book is also loaded with over 50 fun facts about the cast as well as behind the scene details. Order your copy today.
