From the wreck of the USS Alligator to the mystery of the marooned dolphins, It Happened in the Florida Keys looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of this island chain.
From the wreck of the USS Alligator to the mystery of the marooned dolphins, It Happened in the Florida Keys looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of this island chain.
Victoria Shearer is a longtime travel and food journalist who frequently contributes to national magazines and newspapers. She is also the author of The Florida Keys Cookbook, ten editions of Insiders' Guide to the Florida Keys & Key West, Walking Places in New England, It Happened in the Florida Keys, and others. Vicki divides her time between Islamorada, in the Keys, and Wake Forest, North Carolina.
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Introduction (1) Hard Aground on the Reef: The Demise of the U.S.S. Alligator 1822 (2) Double Cross: Salvaging the Slaver Guerrero 1827 (3) Massacre on Indian Key 1840 (4) Muddy Waters: Truth and Consequences 1865 (5) Key West Cigars: Up in Smoke 1886 (6) First Train to Paradise 1912 (7) Catching the Big One: Zane Grey and the Long Key Fishing Camp 1919 (8) Against all Protocol: Battle in the Florida Straits 1943 (9) Mother Nature's Fury: The Labor Day Hurricane 1935 (10) Sabotage in the Mangroves: Litnumvitae key and the Bay of Pigs 1961 (11) Island at War: Key West and the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 (12) Flotilla to Freedom: The Flooding of Key West 1980 (13) If at First You Don't Secede . . . 1982 (14) Fat Albert's Great Escape 1984 (15) Drowning the African Queen 1992 (16) True Lies on the Seven Mile Bridge 1993 (17) Chained to the Mother Lode 2000 (18) The Serendipitous Sinking of the Spiegel Grove 2002 (19) Marooned in Marathon 2005
Introduction (1) Hard Aground on the Reef: The Demise of the U.S.S. Alligator 1822 (2) Double Cross: Salvaging the Slaver Guerrero 1827 (3) Massacre on Indian Key 1840 (4) Muddy Waters: Truth and Consequences 1865 (5) Key West Cigars: Up in Smoke 1886 (6) First Train to Paradise 1912 (7) Catching the Big One: Zane Grey and the Long Key Fishing Camp 1919 (8) Against all Protocol: Battle in the Florida Straits 1943 (9) Mother Nature's Fury: The Labor Day Hurricane 1935 (10) Sabotage in the Mangroves: Litnumvitae key and the Bay of Pigs 1961 (11) Island at War: Key West and the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 (12) Flotilla to Freedom: The Flooding of Key West 1980 (13) If at First You Don't Secede . . . 1982 (14) Fat Albert's Great Escape 1984 (15) Drowning the African Queen 1992 (16) True Lies on the Seven Mile Bridge 1993 (17) Chained to the Mother Lode 2000 (18) The Serendipitous Sinking of the Spiegel Grove 2002 (19) Marooned in Marathon 2005
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