Tom Sweets: Steward of Key West Wildlife Center
Tom Sweets, executive director of the Key West Wildlife Center, discovered his calling by volunteering at the center, providing rescue and rehabilitative care to sick and injured wild birds. The center, located inside the 7-acre Indigenous Park on White Street, treats and rehabilitates about 1,400 wild birds and other Keys creatures each year.
Six Ways to Inspire ‘Keys Smiles’
Particularly when winter has much of the world in its chilly grip, the siren song of the subtropical Florida Keys can be almost impossible to resist. The Keys offer ways to indulge body, mind and tastebuds while recharging your batteries and sparking smiles that just don’t stop.
Honoring Wounded Veterans in the Florida Keys
Each January, the Florida Keys hosts a group of severely injured soldiers who use special bicycles to ride segments of the Overseas Highway during the Wounded Warrior Project's Soldier Ride.
Luna Earns Well-Deserved Spotlight in Key West
In Key West, seemingly everyone is a character with an interesting back story -- like the engaging bartender and actor Tom Luna.
Win a Chance to Write in Hemingway’s Key West Studio
The writer who wins the Florida Keys Flash Fiction Contest can spend 10 days working in the Key West writing studio that once belonged to literary legend Ernest Hemingway -- sharing the space where Hemingway penned enduring literary classics when he lived in 1930s Key West.
Paradise for Birders: Six Keys Hotspots
Most people know the Florida Keys are famous for their fabulous underwater beauty, which includes the continental United States’ only living coral barrier reef. But far fewer people are aware that the Keys are among the top destinations in the entire world for year-round bird watching.
Wedding Bells Ring in the New Year in Key West
On New Year’s Eve, thousands of revelers witnessed Key West drag sensation Gary “Sushi” Marion and longtime partner Jeff Kucin marry outside Bourbon St. Pub just before the stroke of midnight.