Old Island Reappears in New Book

Solares HillAugust 21, 2009

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"There's this essential romance about the place," [Tom Corcoran] said. "We don't even have 200 years yet and yet we've got a history that's enormous. This little island has been affected by everything from world wars to depressions to hurricanes to the coming and going of steamships and coal ships and now the influx of big money - individuals and companies.

"Some of these places exist no more, and you kind of get the same feeling when you go to a [Jimmy Buffett] concert and you realize that everybody there wasn't even born when he wrote those songs," [Claudia Pennington] said. "But the appeal is still there - everybody wants to find that one particular island and this is still it."

"I'm sure people look at it as an historic document of some kind," he said, "but to me it's a personal little poem, almost."

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Old Island Reappears in New Book

If Key Westers are obsessed with the changes that wash across the island like northerly breezes, Tom Corcoran might have produced the perfect book for us.

"Key West in Black and White" is the ...

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