When Dorothy Raymer retired from the Key West Citizen, the editor of the local weekly, Solares Hill, asked her to write about her crazier times on the island. He wanted articles longer and more colorful than the daily could publish. Dorothy took to her new task with a sense of humor, a large helping of mischief, and great insight to the Island City's social scene. This book collects 25 of those articles. Subjects as varied as guest rides on Navy submarines, legendary houses of ill repute, the author's close friendship with Tennessee Williams, beach nudity, street people, and Harry Truman offer a broad scope on recent Key West history. Included are a dozen images by noted photographer and mystery writer Tom Corcoran.

Key West Collection

History

Dorothy Raymer

Americas

The Ketch & Yawl Press

Remembering Ernest Hemingway

This volume collects thirteen extended interviews with eleven close friends of Ernest Hemingway, plus his sons Patrick and Gregory. His grand-daughter (and noted author) Lorian Hemingway provides an insightful foreword. Each interview is accompanied by one or more photographs from the period being discussed.

James Plath

Frank Simons

Reference

Plath, James

Simons, Frank

In this revised edition, only minor changes have been made in the text. The illustrations section has been expanded. Many never-before-published photograghs are included.

Papa Hemingway in Key West

James McLendon

A fifteen-year-old boy from New York, in 1839, finds himself thrust into a sea-going adventure in the Florida Keys. A popular book when first published in the 1860s, The Young Wrecker offers a wonderful depiction of nineteenth-century life in South Florida and in Key West. This book is close to perfect history for an area and era almost lost to historians.

The Young Wrecker on the Florida Reef or, The Trials and Adventures of Fred Ransom

Richard Meade Bache

Nowhere on this planet has nature duplicated a geographical phenomenon comparable to the Florida Keys, those palm fringed islands nestled behind coral reefs, bathed in tropical sunshine. This comprehensive look at the formative decades of the Keys is one of the finest collections of vintage Florida Keys photographs ever assembled. The book contains images sourced from the Monroe County Library, the Miami Dade Public Library, the Florida State University Strozier Library, the Library of Congress, the Historical Association of Southern Florida, the US Fish & Wildlife Service and the Florida Division of Archives. The history of the Keys and the lives of those who settled them were molded by a nature that has been both harsh and gentle. Farming has come and gone, the excitement and wealth provided by the wreck salvagers is but a dim memory. The Railroad That Went to Sea was swept away by the elements. But the Florida Keys remain a fascinating archipelago that has shown amazing growth in recent decades. With historical footnotes and extended captions for its 200 photos, the book provides a glorious story of perseverance and beauty, of tragedy and glory.

Yesterday's Florida Keys

Stan Windhorn & Wright Langley

Karl Tanzler, also known as Count Carl von Cosel, was a radiologist in Key West, Florida who developed an obsession for one of his patients, Elena Milagro Hoyos. The beautiful young woman died from tuberculosis in 1931. With her parents' permission von Cosel had an above ground mausoleum built for her. He visited the tomb every night and by 1933 he had taken the body home. In writing this definitive and mesmerizing tale of the most obsessive love imaginable, Ben Harrison did his homework thoroughly, studying numerous press accounts from the 1930s as well as the von Cosel memoir. What makes Undying Love so special are the interviews Ben conducted with those old enough to have known the story participants and the way things were in Key West during the 1930s. One of his better discoveries was a song, La Boda Negra, The Black Wedding, which Count von Cosel claimed Elena sang to him from the elaborate crypt he had built for her in the Catholic section of the Key West cemetery. The lyric made it unmistakeably clear. She wanted to come home with him. Above the coffin of Elena Hoyos, a black crucifix inexplicably glowed with a soft light as Count Carl von Cosel extracted the inner casket from the outer one. With difficulty because the caskets were heavy, he pushed, shoved, pulled and maneuvered the inner one onto the grass outside the tomb, closed and locked the tomb door. Their remarkable journey was about to begin... The book also includes eight pages of compelling, unforgettable photos.

Undying Love: The True Story of a Passion That Defied Death

Ben Harrison

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Key West Collection

Remembering Ernest Hemingway

Remembering Ernest Hemingway

Papa Hemingway in Key West

The Young Wrecker on the Florida Reef or, The Trials and Adventures of Fred Ransom

Yesterday's Florida Keys

Undying Love: The True Story of a Passion That Defied Death