Shipwreck Lore on the Florida Keys
Who isn’t fascinated by buried or sunken treasure? I surely am. As a child I loved to search for treasure and as an…
Category: Arts & Culture
Art, sculpture, theater, plays, dance, museums, music
The Hemingway House, a Key West Legend
Ernest Hemingway is an Illinois Boy. Years ago, I went by his boyhood home in Oak Park, but didn’t have time to stop. …
Cock-a-doodle-do Roosters in Paradise! Chickens are a wild bird in Key West.
So, there are six-toed cats at Ernest Hemingway’s House, and on the island there are also chickens. There are brightly colored, noisy roosters well,…
The beautiful Velie Monocoupe, a Moline legacy
If you like stories about planes and automobiles, you will like this one! Rex Cherrington, a historian from the Galesburg area had a…
The Old Lincoln Courtroom & Museum, where Lincoln’s Almanac Trial Took Place
It was a day where we were without jobs so Keith and I headed to Beardstown to see the Old Lincoln Courthouse &…