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August 25, 1963 – A strike by retail clerks of the Food Fair supermarkets in the Florida Keys became violent. In Key West, there was a bomb threat, a company accountant was beaten, and a newly hired cashier had his tires slashed. In Marathon, the store manager was threatened by a young man carrying a rifle.
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2 hours ago ·An intoxicated 20-year-old Choctaw, Oklahoma man was arrested on Sept. 15, 2026, after he was kicked out of a residence in Marathon only to return with a gun. The gun was not fired and there were no reported life-threatening injuries.
Ronnie Raphiel Garcia was charged with battery, aggravated assault, home Invasion with a deadly weapon, resisting arrest, possession of a firearm while intoxicated, and assault on EMS.
The Sheriff’s Office responded to a residence on Knights Key Boulevard at approximately 9:10 p.m. regarding a man armed with a gun. Deputies arrived to find Garica detained by multiple people. Witnesses stated Garcia was previously at the residence but others there told him to leave. Garcia returned with a handgun and kicked the door in. Garcia then pointed the gun at the victims who were able to detain him. Garcia bit one of the victims on the arm. Garica told the Sheriff’s Office, “It was their fault I am drunk.”
Garcia urinated himself and attempted to splash that urine on EMS while they were checking his vitals. He was medically cleared at Fishermen’s Hospital and taken to jail.
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5 hours ago ·September 27, 1954 – Key West Police Chief Bienvenido Perez continued a crackdown on vice in the city by personally conducting a raid of the Mardi Gras Club on Duval Street. Three women were arrested and charged with “participating in a performance of an indecent and immoral nature.” The club manager was arrested, too.
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1864 – Two soldiers were arrested at the Dry Tortugas after they forged an order for whiskey and presented it to the commissary. When the supply officer detected the fraud, they began to throw bricks at him. The men were court-martialed and ordered to spend 30 days wearing a ball and chain with no pay.
1963 – Roger A. Foster, who was accused of murdering Key West captain Douglas Trevor and his son Edward on the charter boat Dream Girl, was found to be insane and committed to the state mental institution. He would later be judged competent and then tried and convicted for the murders.
1976 – Members of the Army Special Forces underwater team issued a warning to other divers that they had seen a 12-foot, 1,800-pound great white shark in the waters off Sand Key. It was the second sighting of the creature in the area in six weeks.
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1976 – The Monroe County Sheriff’s Department was trying to identify the remains of a young man found off No Name Key who had been shot multiple times and had 20 pounds of dive weights attached to his body. It was the second time in a month that a weighted corpse was found in the area’s waters.
fund razor
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Not KW related, but "No Name." When I had a PA company doing sound, in the early years we had a homemade set of monitors. We called them "Nonames." (pronounced "no nom ee") After a while, everyone called them that. Some guys thought it was an actual brand. Noname Sound. Lol.
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October 26, 1831 – After Edward Glover, lightkeeper at the Dry Tortugas, filed a salvage claim on a brig wrecked at those islands, Key West Judge James Webb purposefully awarded him a low amount. Webb’s opinion noted the “impolicy of placing temptations within the reach of Light House Keepers” who might insufficiently perform their duties so resulting wrecked ships would improve their financial gain.
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Wallace Stevens and the hack Robert Frost. Casa Marina, Key West. 1940. Frost is the little one on the left. Stevens is the heavyweight.
Quick Wallace Stevens story: In February 1936, a drunk 56-year-old Stevens taunted a 36-year-old Ernest Hemingway at a party. Stevens called Hemingway a "sap" and "no man." This upset Hemingway's sister, so Hemingway followed Stevens out on to Waddell Ave. Stevens threw the first punch and missed. Hemingway, an amateur boxer knocked down Stevens several times. Into a mud puddle. Stevens got up and smoked Hemingway right in the jaw. Didn't break Hemingway's jaw, but it did break Steven's hand in two places. The two of them decided to make a up a story to cover each other. But this is Robert Frost. Nobody wants to see a picture of Ernie.
Quick Wallace Stevens story: In February 1936, a drunk 56-year-old Stevens taunted a 36-year-old Ernest Hemingway at a party. Stevens called Hemingway a "sap" and "no man." This upset Hemingway's sister, so Hemingway followed Stevens out on to Waddell Ave. Stevens threw the first punch and missed. Hemingway, an amateur boxer knocked down Stevens several times. Into a mud puddle. Stevens got up and smoked Hemingway right in the jaw. Didn't break Hemingway's jaw, but it did break Steven's hand in two places. The two of them decided to make a up a story to cover each other. But this is Robert Frost. Nobody wants to see a picture of Ernie.
fund razor
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Wallace Stevens was a Vice President at the Hartford and lived in New Haven CT. He wrote poetry on his walk to work, and by 1955 was winning a Pulitzer for his Collected Poems. He was married to the woman who was the model for the mercury dime. But they never really had a relationship. He loved poetry, and he loved Florida and Key West.
1936 Poem "The Idea of Order at Key West"
She sang beyond the genius of the sea.
The water never formed to mind or voice,
Like a body wholly body, fluttering
Its empty sleeves; and yet its mimic motion
Made constant cry, caused constantly a cry,
That was not ours although we understood,
Inhuman, of the veritable ocean.
The sea was not a mask. No more was she.
The song and water were not medleyed sound
Even if what she sang was what she heard,
Since what she sang was uttered word by word.
It may be that in all her phrases stirred
The grinding water and the gasping wind;
But it was she and not the sea we heard.
For she was the maker of the song she sang.
The ever-changing, organizational phrases
Of the meaningless plungings of water and the wind,
The theatrical distances, bronze shadows heaped
On high horizons, mountainous atmospheres
Of sky and sea.
It was her voice that made
The sky acutest at its vanishing.
She measured to the hour its solitude.
She was the single artificer of the world
In which she sang. And when she sang, the sea,
Whatever self it had, became the self
That was her song, for she was the maker. Then we,
As we beheld her striding there alone,
Kedi, Ramon Fernandez, knew that there was
No island no, no side, no ocean-cloud,
Except the one she made and, making, knew.
The world words of the sea became the world,
As if the spirit of the sea were ours,
And we, as we went back toward the town,
And turned toward the harbor, looked at the boats
That mastered the night and the sky and the water,
Anchored in the harbor, that night,
Until the lights of the fishing boats at anchor there,
Mastered the night and the sea, and we beheld,
With a newer mind, the town, the harbor, and the sea,
With a newer mind, the light that mastereth,
Arranging, deepening, enchanting night.
Oh! Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon,
The maker's rage to order words of the sea,
Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred,
And of ourselves and of our origins,
In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.
1936 Poem "The Idea of Order at Key West"
She sang beyond the genius of the sea.
The water never formed to mind or voice,
Like a body wholly body, fluttering
Its empty sleeves; and yet its mimic motion
Made constant cry, caused constantly a cry,
That was not ours although we understood,
Inhuman, of the veritable ocean.
The sea was not a mask. No more was she.
The song and water were not medleyed sound
Even if what she sang was what she heard,
Since what she sang was uttered word by word.
It may be that in all her phrases stirred
The grinding water and the gasping wind;
But it was she and not the sea we heard.
For she was the maker of the song she sang.
The ever-changing, organizational phrases
Of the meaningless plungings of water and the wind,
The theatrical distances, bronze shadows heaped
On high horizons, mountainous atmospheres
Of sky and sea.
It was her voice that made
The sky acutest at its vanishing.
She measured to the hour its solitude.
She was the single artificer of the world
In which she sang. And when she sang, the sea,
Whatever self it had, became the self
That was her song, for she was the maker. Then we,
As we beheld her striding there alone,
Kedi, Ramon Fernandez, knew that there was
No island no, no side, no ocean-cloud,
Except the one she made and, making, knew.
The world words of the sea became the world,
As if the spirit of the sea were ours,
And we, as we went back toward the town,
And turned toward the harbor, looked at the boats
That mastered the night and the sky and the water,
Anchored in the harbor, that night,
Until the lights of the fishing boats at anchor there,
Mastered the night and the sea, and we beheld,
With a newer mind, the town, the harbor, and the sea,
With a newer mind, the light that mastereth,
Arranging, deepening, enchanting night.
Oh! Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon,
The maker's rage to order words of the sea,
Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred,
And of ourselves and of our origins,
In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.
fund razor
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Wallace Stevens love letter to "old Florida"
O Florida, Venereal Soil, 1922
O Florida, Venereal Soil, 1922
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