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Enjoy eating? Why not take a tour and enjoy the local Key West Food Tours

Want to me Casper? This is good tour I personally took it. Very interesting get a bit of history. Take your digital camera. Ghost Tours of Key West

Trolleys are great for just checking out areas. Lets face it, they know the area better than you do and you get to know surrounding areas without getting lost. Take notes on the things you want to do. This good for your money.Old Town Trolley Tours

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Enjoy dolphin swims and other encounters, as well as other fun chances to touch a dolphin. We also provide special needs assistance. Don't miss Dolphin Research Center during your Florida Keys vacation. For more information visit my friends website
Dolphin Swim in the Florida Keys

This is intense,scary and thrilling all at the same time.Don't be a chicken and get that tail out from between your legs. Live a little.You will thank me when you get back.This is Good company and safe Key West Parasailing

Key West Race Week - international sailing event - January
Key West Literary Seminar - January
Conch Republic Independence Celebration - April 23
Taste of Key West - April
Red Ribbon Bed Race - April
April is National Poetry Month
Survivors Party - May
Queen Mother Pageant - May
PrideFest - June
Cuban-American Heritage Festival - June
Hemingway Days Festival - July
WomenFest - September
Fantasy Fest - October
Goombay Celebration - October
Robert the Enchanted Doll Day - October 24
Parrot Heads in Paradise Convention (aka Meeting of the Minds) - (November 5 - 8 in 2009)
Boat and Holiday Parade - December

Sloppy Joe's
Captain Tony's Saloon
Rick's and Durty Harry's
Hog's Breath
Irish Kevins
Cowboy Bill's Honky Tonk Saloon
Lazy Gecko
flying monkeys
Fogarty's
The Bull & Whistle Bar
Garden of Eden
Fat Tuesday's
Hard Rock Cafe
Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville
Willie T's

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(July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation."

Hemingway's distinctive writing style had a significant influence on the development of twentieth-century fiction writing. His protagonists are typically stoical men who exhibit an ideal described as "grace under pressure." Many of his works are now considered classics of American literature.While living above the showroom of a Key West Ford dealership wainting for a delivery of a Ford roadster given to him by his wife's uncle he wrote the master piece "A Farewell to Arms" so that's what legend says. Must have been a long wait to write a master piece. Well life was a bit slower before the internet and it seems its slower there still today.

Knowing that Earnest Hemingway was an advent hunter Charles Thompson, the Hardware store owner introduced him to deep-sea fishing. Among the group who went fishing was Joe Russell (also known as Sloppy Joe). Hence a buddy relationship occurred and Hemingway frequent the restaurant nightly. Russell was reportedly the model for Freddy in To Have and Have Not. Portions of the original manuscript were found at Sloppy Joe's Bar after his death. The group had nicknames for each other, and Hemingway wound up with "Papa".
Pauline's rich uncle Gus Pfeiffer bought the 907 Whitehead Street house also home to his famous Polydactyl cat (six toed cat). in 1931 as a wedding present.

Pauline installed a swimming pool for $20,000 in the late 1930s (equivalent amount to $250,000). It was such a high price that Hemingway is said to have put a penny in the concrete, saying, "Here, take the last penny I've got!" The penny is still there.He was pissed.
Other books he wrote there are Death in the Afternoon, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. He used Depression-era Key West as the locale for To Have and Have Not - his only novel set in the United States.

His given name was Thomas Lanier Williams.Born March 26, 1911 - February 25, 1983 he was an American playwright who received many of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee", the state of his father's birth. Hence Tennessee Williams.

He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 and for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955. In addition, The Glass Menagerie (1945) and The Night of the Iguana (1961) received New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards. His 1952 play The Rose Tattoo received the Tony Award for best play.

Tennessee Williams first came to Key West in 1941 and wrote the first draft of A Streetcar Named Desire while staying in 1947 at the La Concha Hotel. The hotel is still there today. He visited Key West so much he bought a hose 1949 where he lived until his death in 1983. In contrast to Hemingway's grand house in Old Town, the Williams home at 1431 Duncan Street it is a very modest bungalow. The house is privately owned and not open to the public.

Although he does not reside in Key West I think he is a well deserving to be mentioned because of his influence,frequent visits,and his songs about Key West. His given name James William born on December 25, 1946 in Pascagoula, Mississippi.He is a singer, songwriter, author,and businessman.He began playing guitar during his college years at Auburn University. Best known for his "island escapism" lifestyle and music including hits such as Margaritaville,Come Monday, and Cheeseburger in Paradise. His fans are known fans known as Parrotheads, which I am one of them. His band is called the Coral Reefer Band.

Aside from his career in music, Buffett is also a best-selling writer and is involved in two restaurant chains named after two of his best known songs, "Cheeseburger in Paradise" and "Margaritaville".

Buffett has written three No. 1 best sellers. Tales from Margaritaville and Where Is Joe Merchant? both spent over seven months on the New York Times Best Seller fiction list. His book A Pirate Looks At Fifty went straight to No. 1 on the New York Times Bestseller non-fiction list, making him one of seven authors in that list's history to have reached No. 1 on both the fiction and non-fiction lists. One of the other authors we are familiar with is Ernest Hemingway.

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