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Download or read book Key West Tales written by John Hersey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1996-08-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alternating a tale of the past that has become a part of Key West legend with a contemporary story that reflects the pulse of life there today, Hersey weaves in these stories a brilliant human tapestry of the place that means a great deal to him. From the author of A Bell For Adano and Hiroshima comes this final collections of stories.
Download or read book Key West written by Maureen Ogle and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ogle captures this island city in all its quirky charm. Her story breezes along in typical Key West fashion--full of gossip and humor, with the jolt of a good cup of Cuban coffee."--Lee Irby, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg Parrotheads, Hemingway aficionados, and sun worshipers view Key West as a tropical paradise, and scores of writers have set tales of mystery and romance on the island. The city's real story--told by Maureen Ogle in this lively and engaging illustrated account--is as fabulous as fiction. In the early 1800s, the city's pioneer founders battled Indians, pirates, and deadly disease and created wealth beyond their imaginations. In the two centuries since, Key West has nurtured tragedy and triumph and has stood at the crossroads of American history. When Florida joined the Confederacy in 1861, Union troops seized control of strategically located Key West and city residents spent four years living under martial law. In the early 1890s, Key West Cubans helped Jose Marti launch the revolution that eventually ended Spain's control of their homeland. A few years later, the battleship Maine steamed out of Key West harbor on its last, tragic voyage. At the turn of the century, Henry Flagler astounded the entire country by building a technological marvel, an overseas railroad from mainland Florida to Key West, more than 100 miles long. In the 1920s and 1930s, painters, rumrunners, and writers (including Ernest Hemingway and Robert Frost) discovered Key West. During World War II, the federal government and the military war machine permanently altered the island's landscape. In the second half of the 20th century, bohemians, hippies, gays, and jet-setters began writing a new chapter in Key West's social history. All of these personalities and events are wrapped in Ogle's unique and candid history of the island, an account that will fascinate past and present citizens of the Conch Republic, history buffs who like a well-told tale, and the millions of tourists from all over the world who love this colorful island city. Maureen Ogle is retired from the University of South Alabama.
Book Synopsis Home at the End of the World by : Rita B Troxel
Download or read book Home at the End of the World written by Rita B Troxel and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1st person non-fiction stories of Key West in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.
Book Synopsis Mile Marker Zero by : William McKeen
Download or read book Mile Marker Zero written by William McKeen and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis My Key West Kitchen by : Norman Van Aken
Download or read book My Key West Kitchen written by Norman Van Aken and published by Kyle Books. This book was released on 2017-10-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning chef Norman Van Aken has been cooking in Florida for 40 years. My Key West Kitchen is his love letter to Key West, where he first found the passion to cook, and where the unique cultural makeup of the island influenced his cuisine today. Follow Chef Van Aken as he strolls through Key West, reminiscing and re-creating dishes from "little joints" and restaurants both past and present. Norman includes recipes for his own take of the first foods and drinks he experienced in Key West and how they seemed "different than ordinary American fare," from the Sunday Fish Fry at Capt. Tony's to the Rib Sandwich and Dark & Stormy from the Bahama Village Elk's Club. Norman also focuses on the home cooking of Key West, whether it's "Yard Bird" Fricasse with Collard Greens and Pot Likker from the Tropical American South, Plaintain Soup from the Spanish Caribbean, or Nassau Grouper in Banana Leaves with Coconut "Run Down" from the British Caribbean. The colorful stories behind the recipes make My Key West Kitchen essential reading both in and out of the kitchen.
Download or read book A Bell for Adano written by John Hersey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic novel and winner of the Pulitzer Prize tells the story of an Italian-American major in World War II who wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he searches for a replacement for the 700-year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the fascists. Although stituated during one of the most devastating experiences in human history, John Hersey's story speaks with unflinching patriotism and humanity.
Book Synopsis Haunted Key West by : David L. Sloan
Download or read book Haunted Key West written by David L. Sloan and published by Phantom Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two incredible books in one. Haunted Key West tells tales from ten of Key Wests favorite hauntings including the ghost of Ernest Hemingway, the lady in blue and the ghost of US. Strange Key West takes you beyond the supernatural with amazing stories about voodoo curses, bizarre cemeteries and a grotto that protects the island from hurricanes.
Book Synopsis Buffett Backstories by : Scott Atwell
Download or read book Buffett Backstories written by Scott Atwell and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Key West Tales written by John Hersey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alternating a tale of the past that has become a part of Key West legend with a contemporary story that reflects the pulse of life there today, Hersey weaves in these stories a brilliant human tapestry of the place that means a great deal to him. From the author of A Bell For Adano and Hiroshima comes this final collections of stories.
Download or read book STELLA MARIS written by MICHAEL. CARROLL and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the conservative dystopia and the apocalypse with its rising waters there is still a zone of possibility where men trade in their cell phones for smiles and conversation.
Book Synopsis Ghosts of Key West by : David L. Sloan
Download or read book Ghosts of Key West written by David L. Sloan and published by Phantom Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key West's past comes alive with thirteen incredible stories of the southernmost ghosts. From Victorian era spirits returning to claim what is rightfully theirs, to haunted dolls that continue to send chills down their visitors' spines, Ghosts of Key West beautifully captures the true spirit of Florida's second oldest city. Ghosts of cigar makers, pirates, wreckers and voodoo practitioners all await you. While their ghostly journeys continue through time, yours is just about to begin.Ghosts of Key West author David L. Sloan founded Key West's original ghost tour and is the leading authority on the island's hauntings.
Download or read book Key West Tales written by J. Hersey and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Key West by : Richard "Conch Boy" Gomez
Download or read book Key West written by Richard "Conch Boy" Gomez and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Key West: A Smuggler’s Tale, we meet Bobby Campo, a journalist and native of Key West who is writing his first novel about a subject that has interested him for a number of years. His interview begins with a legendary Key West smuggler, a childhood friend of his very straight-laced father and mother (or so he thought). In the early 1970s until the early 1980s, Norberto Belafonte Diaz smuggled marijuana into the Keys. During the interview he takes Bobby on a winding trail, not only down the backroads of their island home but also down the backroads of that dark history. Bobby is introduced to some of the most memorable characters of that time, each with their own adventure-filled stories. But unbeknownst to Bobby, Norberto is leading him down a path that he has chosen carefully. Key West: A Smuggler’s Tale teaches us in the end that under the watchful eye of fate, old wounds can be finally healed. About the Author Richard now resides with the love of his life Michelle, in Jensen Beach, Fl. They both enjoy the retired life. When not traveling they wake each morning to the sound and sight of the ocean as it touches the shore. Life's adventures have turned to memories of a life worth living. Richard plans to continue to write about life on a spit of land surrounded by ocean far far away from normal, but always his idea of paradise. Key West, the place where his dreams became realities.
Book Synopsis Key West Shorts by : Edgardo Alvarado-Vazquez
Download or read book Key West Shorts written by Edgardo Alvarado-Vazquez and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An entertaining grouping of short stories-some zany, some serious-by two well-known Key West talents. Wesley Sizemore (Tropical Quests) and Edgardo Alvarado-Vázquez (The Funerals of Key West and Don't Read This Poetry Book) have teamed up to create this gem of a collection, original stories that represent some of the unusual shenanigans that could only happen in Key West. Pull up an easy chair, mix yourself a margarita, and enjoy! Joanna Brady, author, The Woman at the Light, published by St. Martin's Press"Wesley Sizemore and Edgardo Alvarado-Vázquez are superlative writers whose incisive humor is spot-on. Take a comedic but often serious ride with them in this collection of short stories that accurately portray the beauty of the Key West with all its warts. A great read!" Rusty Hodgdon, author, The Phantom Writer."Key West Shorts celebrates the spirit of Key West from Tennessee Williams to the memories of our truly wild days before gentrification and cruise ships. Wesley Sizemore and Edgardo Alvarado-Vázquez, have joined forces to capture the old and new of Key West, all to frame the human condition. You'll never spend more intimate, loving, and amusing moments than with these stories." Patricia Patten Tyffany, author of the forthcoming poetry book Awoken: Poems of Key West and Travel."What do you get when you take two talented writers who love Key West, love the written word, and love entertaining readers with their stories? You get Key West Shorts, by Wesley Sizemore and Edgardo Alvarado-Vázquez. The stories complement each other in a natural way so you never feel jarred by the shift in authorship. Some of the stories will leave you forlorn; others will make you nod smugly while the characters get their comeuppance; and still others will make you shake your head at the utter peculiarity. All will pull you in with their poetic elegance and all will definitely entertain. Prepare yourself for areal treat-you deserve it." Lisa Mahoney, award winning author of the forthcoming novel Forget the Tinman.
Download or read book Key West Tales written by John R. Hersey and published by . This book was released on 1988-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Florida Keys written by Joy Williams and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2003-09-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Florida Keys: A History & Guide is an engaging handbook to the unique coral and limestone islands that curve southwest off the tip of Florida. Acclaimed novelist and Florida resident Joy Williams traces U.S. Highway 1 from Key Largo to Key West, combining the best of local legend—colorful stories you won’t find in other guidebooks—with insightful commentary and the most up-to-date advice on where to stay, eat, and wander. Along the way, you will: • explore the exquisite underwater world of North America’s only living reef • discover the beautiful bridges that span the Keys, the forts, and the distinctive “conch” architecture of Key West • experience the eerie serenity of Florida Bay’s “backcountry” and the unique ecology of the Keys • visit the Key West cemetery and learn about the lives of some of the Keys’ eccentrics—writers, madmen, and entrepreneurs with various delusions • find the best (and avoid the worst) cafés, inns, and other establishments that the Keys have to offer Here is the most thorough and candid guide to the Keys, one of the most surprising locales in America. With insight and style, Joy Williams shares with us all of the region’s idiosyncrasies and delights.
Book Synopsis Tales of Yesterday's Florida Keys by : John Viele
Download or read book Tales of Yesterday's Florida Keys written by John Viele and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories of people and events in the Florida Keys extending from the time the Keys were first occupied by humans, through the Second Seminole War, the coming of the Overseas Railway, and finally the opening of the first Overseas Highway in 1927. The tales tell of American Indians, Cubans, Bahamians, New Englanders, and of fishing, turtling, shipwreck salvaging, warring, and of course dealing with heat and mosquitoes. John Viele's three volumes, The Florida Keys, have been Keys bestsellers for years. Now he presents a fascinating new batch of historical vignettes.
