Today’s Key West
Chickens still cross the road at the intersection of Duval and Truman, said Mike Williams in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Other reassuring sights in laid-back Key West are drunks “wandering arm-in-arm out of Sloppy Joe’s” and descendents of Ernest Hemingway’s cats lapping water from a public urinal that the author once took home from a bar. But there’s more to do here these days than just sing along to a Jimmy Buffet song. Many art galleries have opened, there’s a new art-film cinema, and a small symphony now “calls the island home.” Non-cultural fare includes scuba diving off “America’s only coral reef,” sport fishing in the Gulf Stream, kite-surfing, and taking a stroll past “Victorian mansions set in a tropical paradise.” You can rent a bicycle or motor scooter to sightsee the 4-mile-long island. And don’t miss the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum, where gold coins and dazzling treasure found by “Key’s West’s most famous salvage outfit” are on exhibit.
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