2+ hour, 16+ min ago   (187+ words) Day of Remembrance keysnews.com Recording artist, performer and cultural practitioner Oba Ogunlano displays his “Shango’ performance Sunday evening during the Key West Community Observance of the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition....

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (220+ words) ISLAMORADA — The Matecumbe Historical Trust will host a free presentation on Tuesday, Aug. 25, about the late 19th- and early 20th-century slaughter of South Florida wildlife known to historians as the “Age of Extermination.” The program, “Murder in the Everglades: The ‘Age…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (469+ words) A 4,000-year-old painted stone plaque discovered on Wetar Island, Indonesia. (Shimona Kealy / ANU via SWNS) Ancient mariners took symbolic art on their epic voyages 4,000 years ago, reveals new research. The paintings may have served as lucky charms — with early sailors…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (288+ words) 1884: William A. Whitehead died in New Jersey at the age of 74. He had first come to Key West with his brother John, who owned a quarter interest in the Island. In 1829, he completed the first survey of the island of Key…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (243+ words) The U.S.S. Maine memorial, erected in memory of the victims of the ship's explosion in Havana Harbor in 1898, is one of the most visited plots in the Key West City Cemetery. Of the hundreds of fatalities were roughly 30 sailors from Key…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (229+ words) Capt. Tony Tarracino and family on the pier with a large catch of Goliath grouper caught on the Greyhound II on Sept. 9, 1958. The girl is holding a puppy. James Buckelew and Edward R. Steis sitting on barrels of Budweiser on a…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (553+ words) Students at the University of Florida excavated this ancient pot earlier this year. GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Some 400 years ago, a member of the Indigenous Potano-Timucua tribe scooped up some clay and carefully molded it into a modest vessel, small enough to…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (174+ words) Capt. Tony Tarracino and family on the pier with a large catch of Goliath grouper caught on the Greyhound II on Sept. 9, 1958. The girl is holding a puppy. James Buckelew and Edward R. Steis sitting on barrels of Budweiser on a…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (86+ words) keysnews.com A group of patriotic Key Westers gather Wednesday evening outside City Hall to participate in the nationwide, synchronized reading of the 1337-word Declaration of Independence which was first read publicly on July 8, 1776, in Philadelphia. Dubbed “Sharing the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (655+ words) The Key Largo Volunteer Fire Rescue Museum at mile marker 99.2, oceanside, hosted a June celebration of the local fire department’s role as the service provider to the Key Largo Fire-EMS District since 2005. The museum will also be open Saturday for…...