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ARTS FOR OUR KEYS Page 2 — January 1988 _ Solares Hill Solares Hill _ January 1988 _ Page 3 FROM THE EDITOR Casamayor in the police department, is widely respected and may some day be Hello. chief. He's a great guy and the majority of I take serious exception to the idea that a the community wishes him well, I'm sure. Black can only be elected to office in Key Of course racism has played a large role West by the creation of a separate Black in holding back qualified Blacks from voting district. You run people like Fred positions of power here and elsewhere. But by Bud Jacobson Shaw, Roosevelt Sands, Jr., Phyllis Allen, it is lessening and the people who want Harry Chipchase, Betty Campbell, Willie The New York Giants, a fabled major competence in place of color restrictions are league baseball team back in the 1920s, Ward, etc., etc. and they would stand an at last in the majority here. The idea of excellent chance of being elected. There has arrived in Key West on a hot, dusty spring setting up individual districts amounts to day in 1923 for an exhibition game that not been a strong candidate for City little more than creating ward politics and Don't Head North Commissioner from the Black community drew almost all the island's population to a political bosses. Peter. Ilchuck, Supervisor ball field near Bay view Park. since Lang Milian ran and was elected over of Elections, wrote an excellent brief advis- Without Them! 10 years ago. Carroll Tynes ran one time The big leaguers, bruisers in size, tough, ing against the creation of separate districts , hefty, unshaven after the long trip from but he was not so well known outside his (he estimated it could take nine districts to immediate community. When Noah C. Miami, were used to meeting big guys like Allen ran for County Commission a few ensure a Black voting majority in one of • themselves on the ball field. years ago he was almost a total unknown them) and I heartily recommend it to anyone But when they got to the field, the local with no real grasp of local issues. White with an interest in this subject. ball club, called "Cuba," consisted of a candidates simlarly unprepared routinely go The Black community has heavy, heavy bunch of slightly built, wiry Latin Ameri- down to defeat. Charles Major, Sr. has run problems that are not being addressed. The cans, a few with large looping mustaches several times and the voters have just plain economic tourist boom that has reinvigor- like Pancho Villa sported. Wide welcoming said no to him. I'm sorry that City Electric ated Duval Street and pumped money and smiles and warm courtesy were the board member Otha Cox, who has enjoyed jobs into our economy has been almost hallmarks of the Key West ball team. They widespread public support as an elected exclusively for the White community. could run the bases like a gang of rabbits, official, chose to agree with this notion that Cross Whitehead Street and one can find too according to Louie Carbonell, a baseball fan a Black can't run and win when I feel the much hanging around with too little to do. all his life. Nilo & Rod truth is that a strong candidate would All of the scourges of lack of affordable The marvelous thing, however, about the undoubtedly do j us t that. housing and proper paying jobs, rampant Key West ball club was that six of its nine The Rodriguez family wasn't out to ability that he had his name inscribed on a I remember Police Lt. Tito Casamayor continued on page 55 players were brothers in the Rodriguez prove the truth of that lyrical line from the plaque to top athletes set in the wall at El ...footprints saying Whites were out to get him because family, forebears of Rod and Nilo song, it just happened they were one of the Cerro stadium in Havana. The plaque is 610 Duval Street Old Town they resented a Black with so much power Rodriguez, owners of Banner Tire on North prominent Cuban American families in Key there today, according to members of the in the police department. It was the abuse Cover image for the Monroe County Roosevelt Boulevard. West and those families customarily had lots family. Fine Arts Council created by Solares and lots of children, and all of Key West, of power the community. Black and White, Hill Design Group. "It was something like that song at the Rafael was also the grandfather of Nilo objected to. A Black man, Oscar Macin- time," mused Carbonell, "Keep Your then, was baseball wacky. and Arcadio (Rod) Rodriguez. The brothers tosh, with perhaps an equivalent position in '/ Sunnyjide Up — 'if you've got nine sons in One of the ballplayers in that 1923 get that hustling, competitive spirit from the the fire department to that formerly held by a row, baseball teams make money you exhibition was the pitcher, Rafael long line of athletic members among their know.' " Rodriguez, and he was of such outstanding ancestors. T 335"Duval Street DUVAL WALK Duval & Eaton : ^ Sunglass Shop Mikli • Oakely • Laura^3iagiotti ^Ied__Lap|dus fF"ee Develo"ping'"Fr ee15eveToping Free i 7-C1 In Searstown AFTER CHRISTMAS SALE T,! I! IQ. CD j WISHES YOU Solares Hill is a community newspaper published every month on the BRINGYOURFILMTOUS slopes of Solares Hill, Key West's highest point, by Solares Hill CD I Company, #4 Key Lime Square, Key West, Florida 33040 ! 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Pancho Salinero, a friend of the family Nilo, 46, moved around considerably in baseball fame, and more. and relation, through marriage, for many those years before setting up Banner Tire, Neighbors from,the old days are always Dine on the Ocean at SOUTH BEACH years, credits "that go-getting spirit to Rod and broadened their knowledge of business, in touch -- the Salinero family, Perucho The and Nilo's success over the last 15 years." especially in automotive work, tires, Sanchez, Gene Martinez, and others from "When we decided to get into this busi- batteries, how to organize work crews and the Duval-Catherine-Amelia Street district. KEY WEST ISLAND BOOKSTORE ness, my brother and I were looking at an how to "stay in the black ink," as they like Talking about his old school chum, Rod, empty lot on North Roosevelt where a gas to say. ••.-Hernandez says his success at Banner Tire station used to be; filled with weeds and Rod, with a degree in business is no surprise -- "he's not shy about hard Welcomes beer cans and in spite of the trash it had the administration from the University of Flor- work and when he gives you his word, you location we wanted," said Rod. ida, put in eight years with Firestone on know it's good. Both of them have the • Ail the distinguished authors, Rod was a 1954 graduate of Key West White Street and learned business manage- energy and competitive spirit that's neces- High and at the time the family was living in ment while Nilo's hands and talent leaned sary for good businessmen." scholars, publishers and the neighborhood of Amelia and Duyal, near toward the mechanical side of the business. Like.all the Key Westers, the two bro- PRESENTS the old "Cuban Club, an area liberally Both men are third generation Conchs thers remember an early indoctrination into everyone attending sprinkled with Cuban American families, all with great pride in both their town and their the town's political ins and outs, its social of them with close ties to home and friends, friends from school days and early years, life and many community affairs, much of it THE "LITE" LUNCH all of them fiercely proud of being Key with whom they're still close. Guys like then centering around the Cuban Club, West Conchs. After high school, Rod went Frankie Hernandez, formerly a deputy years before it burned down. BUFFET The Sixth Annual on to the University of Florida and then into sheriff and now with Tarmac Corp.; the The high school bunch grew up in the Key West Literary Seminar the Army for a number of years on active ex-police chief, Larry Rodriguez; deputy fifties. duty. Jakey Key, in charge of the county jail for Rod courted and married his wife, the 4 Hot Vegetables The two brothers, Rod now 53, and Sheriff Billy Freeman; Boog Powell, of former Jean Rogers, a nurse whose home- town was Hazelton, Ohio, and they have two sons, Richard, 24, and David, 22. 18 Salad Fixings David is presently active in the Banner Tire WHODUNIT? business, one of seven of the men employed 2 Lite Entrees THE SEAFOOD RESTAURANT i at the place, including his father and his 4 Cold Salads SN KEY WEST uncle. Nilo arid his wife, Kathy, are parents of a daughter, Dome, 22, now The Art & Tradition of Mystery Literature living in Ft. Lauderdale and attending Bro- Fresh Fruit Mix ward Junior College. Fresh Baked Bread January 14-18, 1988 Jean is a real estate broker today, connected with Knight's Realty office. She Cobbler recalls with humor the "fast and furious" Terrace Dining courtship before she consented to marrying Come visit us at: Rod. Only $3.99 FRESH "I was a nurse with the Coral Gables LOCALS CAPE COD Hospital when Rod came in with a friend SEAFOOD who was a patient. Six months after we Buffet: 12 - 3 pm * Mon. - Sat. KEY WEST ISLAND SHRMP met, we were married. Whew! He's a strong willed person and he hasn't changed WE ALSO SERVE BREAKFAST & DINNER K STO RE "CDPPINO" much." All Major Credit Cards Accepted NEW-USED-RARE SPECIALTY OF THE This tight family life extends outward BOOKS FOR OLDFOLNTAiNS 1405 DUVAL STREET 294-2727 READERS& COLLECTORS RESTAURANT from their business to almost all phases of life. Dinners, festivities, holidays, big year-end parties are shared so that there's a 513 Fleming.Street - Key West, Florida 33040 - (305) 294 • 2904 Open 6 to 10 Mon-Sat ! strong continuity and sense of community in (RESERVATIONS REQUESTED) their daily doings. 295-6700 "I joined the Lions Club about 14 years • ago, sponsored by Al Weintraub," noted Solares Hill — January 1988 r—Page 9 Page 8 _ January 1988 — Solares Hill BOOK REVIEW

Key West cooks to serve at home some of Key West Woman's Club has been altered to present the gastronomical the more elaborate dishes they have enjoyed Cookbook (Surfside Publishing, treats in a uniformly printed format. Every- thing from appetizers to desserts to bever- when dining out. Inc.: $14.95, 346 pp.) ages has been included. One of the most The cookbook is attractively assembled interesting sections is the one entitled 'Et using pages in pastel colors— some pink, by Kathy Roach Cetera.' Here are found tropical fruit some lavender, some blue or green. Katherine Orr's cover design carries out the What Is a Busker? The latest book sure to be of interest to delights ~ mango chutney, natal plum jam, guava jelly, to name but a few. pastel theme, and the pages feature her Borrowing it's nickname, Busker, from the old Key Westers is a culinary, rather than a tropical illustrations. literary, masterpiece. The 1988 edition of The meat and poultry section of the floppy English hat of the same name, Street cookbook features recipes for any size Proceeds from the sale of the Woman s the Woman's Club Cookbook contains Club Cookbook will be used for complete Performing is enjoying a well deserved resurgence almost 300 recipes culled from the kitchens gathering from Wilheknina Harvey's Cuban Style Roast Pig for 15 down to Peggy renovation of the building at 319 Duval in America led by Key West and other cities such of present and former Woman's Club Street which has been the Club's headquar- members and their husbands. Recipes from McClain's Plum-Sauced Chicken Wings to as New York, San Francisco and Boston. serve two. Cream pies, custards, puddings, ters since 1940. In addition to housing the past editions of the book have not been Woman's Club, the brick building has been eliminated; rather, the book has been and a wide variety of cakes featured in the dessert section are enough to test the will- rented ~ for a nominal fee - to many civic expanded to include the favorites of the organizations in the community for meet- current Woman's Club members. power of any dieter. And the Seven-Foot Key Lime Pie — calling for 360 egg yolks ~ ings, classes, church services, recitals, and is a great idea for your next party of 1000 or the like. Restoration of this old building The first edition of the Key West will enable such organizations to continue to Woman's Club Cookbook was published in so guests. Speaking of parties, the beverages in the hold their gatherings there; so, according to 1949, when Emily Goddard was president; Peg;gy McClain, club president, success of hence the dedication of the current book to book make excellent party drinks, from The Frozen Quinby to Quarter Deck to Southern- the cookbook will benefit many Key West her and her fellow members. Recipes were citizens. numerous and varied, and the book was most Swill — enjoyed by guests at the taken on a Good Will Tour by the General Club's publication party in December. The 1988 Key West Woman's Club Federation of Women's Clubs and pre- This edition also features, for the first Cookbook is on sale at many different local sented to representatives of the many coun- time, a section devoted to specialties of nine outlets, including Fast Buck Freddie's, The tries visited. Each recipe in the original of Key West's most popular restaurants, an Reach, Key West Aloe, and The Reach. book was reproduced in the script of the idea that came from Roy McClain, husband For *a unique gift, or for a gastronomical contributor, resulting in a very personal, but of Woman's Club President Peggy. Sea- treat for yourself, the cookbook is a must sometimes hard to read, format. food and poultry entrees are the most popu- purchase. [§| For legibility's sake, the 1988 edition lar recipes from the restaurants, enabling There's rumor of perfection... CASINO CRUISE! CT/ie OK/I) Sou(£ern GJeyance BUSKERFEST >88 the 2ND Annual Street Florida Keys — Performers Festival in Key West, will once again bring THE BEST GAME the streets of Old Town to life with musicians, dancers, IN TOWN HAS ARRIVED! mimes, magicians, jugglers, aerilists, and puppeteers from A day or evening cruise aboard the M/V Southern Elegance is a Non-Stop all over the world. 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Fortune Perhaps Tom's surprise descent upon nose. telling: He is an expert at splanchnomancy, my homestead would have become tire- My angora cat, Elizabeth Dole, sits there the art of telling fortunes, reading entrails - some, like about two hours into the visit, looking very contemptuous while he un- chicken's, dog's, cat's. Here, Elizabeth except that I possess a retreat in a con- loads his hamster travelling companion. Dole indignantly rears up off my sweater cealed corner of the cottage where I tap Hamster, Cousin Tom discloses, adores she is sitting on and flounces out of the away on a prehistoric typewriter looking out ffl fRAJVCE5 'W capers. I allow this menu idea to pass room. Robbery: A thief hot-wired Tom's upon a strong, towering, religious, verdant, harmlessly, and Tom runs out to Tom Toyota in a church parking lot and drove off healthy coconut palm tree. I attribute credit Thumb convenience store for a treat for the in it while he was inside worshipping. to the blessing of this retreat where I can call Pick up the phone. Male voice. "I am headachy hamster. All through the three up chuckles and smiles. These afford Zke Salon yonr Sutton cousin, Tom, from Russia, Vanity: He often stands before a mirror days Tom stays, I can hear small, cutting rubbing on placental extract to preserve his ballast to sail me intrepidly through the Alabama, because I always have wanted to noises: Hamster crunching Cracker Jacks. encounters and dues of life. GRAND OPENING! be in a place where you never have had neckline. This is in defiance of a demon Truthfully, this houseguest is not much aunt when he was a child (not a Sutton The day of Tom's departure arrives. It is frost." trouble. Exception: He insists that he must a bright, twinkling morning, typical of a I: "Ah, yes. Some of the Suttons on aunt), an aunt who would admonish his lie flat on his back on the dining room table being vain: "There is a boogie man hiding Keys January with overhead one cloud Mother's side settled in Alabama." 40 minutes following dinner. If I were shaped like a billy goat and one like the state ISIS SKIN Tom's voice: "Yes, indeedy. Dear cou- slow to clear away, I do believe he would in that mirror!" Politics: He once kissed the hem of George Bush's right trouser leg of Idaho. Elizabeth Dole has overturned the sin, my hamster has a headache, and, be- put his foot in the jello bowl, lying himself living room trash container and is resting in HAIR cause of this, I'd best not stay at a motel." down there by the salmon patty platter and it. She never twitches a whisker as Hamster "one of a kind designs" The approach is original and I am in a stretching his hand out holding the pickle is carried out the door and tenderly stationed Quality Costume Jewelry benevolent mood, having just found a $20 NAILS dish. atop a pile of encyclopedias, volumes D-G. & Accessories bill in an ancient mislaid raincoat at the back Tom is working Key Haven. I can't On Elizabeth Dole's lip accumulates a of a closet. Anyhow, Tom, cousin, arrives really pass judgement that, when he goes sweet, sly smile, for she is dreaming about Tailoring & Dressmaking at the Similar Sound cottage and stays three out mornings, he wears his Masonic apron. the funeral of a mouse buried, wrapped in a Clothing days. I am standing at the door trying to Says he gets discounts some places. When bit of crepe paper, only four cat paces from Special Gifts 915 Simonton St. compose my forehead, eyes and limps into a he is all ready to go, he gathers up his •\ the porch. Fabrics plateau of excitable delight. However, I Encyclopedia Americana, volume T - taran- Key West when he ran into him in a breakfast place on Tom's arrival and sojourn occurred three Greeting Cards must testify: If discovery of a new relative tula, Tennessee, turkey, tap dancing, Tran- years ago this winter. Intensive research Fine Art 292-1222 is so phenomenal, I don't feel like Balboa sylvania. Eye Four. and exhaustive familiar questionnaires never when he first spotted the Pacific Ocean. Tom only asks to borrow money once Cosmetology & Couture Certainly nothing rowdy; he does go out turned up a Tom in a branch of the Suttons. Consultation Tom tells it all right off the bat. He evenings, but upon leaving the house, he and he does that rather half-heartedly, really Neither a living Tom nor a passed-on Tom drove Eye Ten until he reached the always shows the daughter's milk teeth in no passion in the request. Just a run-of-the- soul that might still be making the rounds THE BEARDED IRIS Turnpike; he is happily married; he is an the bottle. "It keeps me pure. These Keys mill try. I quickly whip out the Oriental showing the little milk teeth in the pill bottle. "A year 'round Christmas Shop" Frank • Walta • Robert encyclopedist (sells them door to door); he women are so beautiful." He points out that adage: "One of the main human blessings is PROPRIETORS Tammie " Pam makes $30,000 a year; and he displays his St. Francis of Assisi threw himself into a to be without money." I can't recall what William C. Sours and Richard S. Munriy little girl's milk teeth that he keeps in an old rose bush to escape temptation. are the other two human blessings. 12O7 DL'VAL ST. / 294-O589 prescription pill bottle. He has a vaguely •Tom is a fount of experience-relating. Probably growing a bunion and falling for a familiar look of some relative who has slip- No subject you have touched upon has terrorist.

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Hoar* Page 12— January 1988 _ Solarcs Hill Solares HUJ _ January 1988 _ Page 13 where I had parked. O •<*• •*» O- ~O- I found my dear ones patiently waiting for me. My mother-in-law looking quizzical BREAKFAST SIM BED? parture with an "Explain that one if you can, KEY WORD Buster" look. Her daughter was on the Picnic Lunch? Dinner? took the elevator down to ground level, or phone frantically imploring our hostess to Cocktail Party? that I couldn't get in either. Much frustrated by Sol Jacobson what I presumed the G button stood for. send for the sniffer dogs from the Coast DESKTOP PUBLISHING Delightful Delicacies outstreched palms, shoulder shrugging and Ground Zero il turned out to be I strolled Guard, and were there any unfinished shafts 2 to 200 Three of us went to visit a friend, who eyebrow arching. They understood I was or laundry shoots her spouse might have CAMERA READY COPY trapped outside just as they were inside. out into the night to find myself in the had moved into a newly constructed sea middle of a tropical, enclosed garden, fallen down? Neither of us were able to get to the lobby. • Proposals/Books front condo the day of its unveiling in Key surrounded by blowing palms and I noticed My wife, when we got home, called our West. We came armed with a painting she I tried the phone again, and detected • Magazines/Newsletters what appeared to be a mother and daughter pal to explain - as best she could. Our • Brochures/Menus wanted to borrow. irritation on the hostess' part. She'd buzz charming hostess said it was a lesson to her. again. Still no go. Just then out strolled a doing laps in the pool. The mother saw my Simply the Best • Resumes/Multiple Letters 1 wish I could construct the sequence of dilemma as I vainly tried to push my way "I'll just have to put up a sign to the correct "security" events entering and exiting the resident. I ducked in before the door could exit. I wouldn't want my guests wandering slam. I let the frustrated car parkers in from out of locked doors on both sides of the edifice. I'd like to have given them to the patio. She called to her spouse to toss down off into the sea." she said in a consoling Let Us Put Your Ideas — On Paper late Jacques Tati as a sequel to some of his their lobby door. We all ascended to the fashion. Maybe she ought to warn them fourth floor remarking that it was a new the keys from his fourth floor perch. 802 Catherine Street By Appointment 294-1201 later comedies, the ones in which he did Fortunately she had the projection of an about the swimming pool, too. Remember battle with gadgets. building and maybe was like a new ship or "Sunset Boulevard?" They might end face hotel. Needed a shakedown perhaps. By Ethel Merman and he responded as we all It began when we tooled up in our car. I cowered behind the palms so as not to be up like Gloria Swanson. left my mother-in-law and wife off at the then we needed a shakedown, or a cocktail. Great thing security systems, I mulled, entrance after phoning from the outer lobby. Down a long, long hall to #408. I was brained. The swimmers let me out and held the as I fumbled around for the key to the old Luckily for them a tennis playing resident greeted like a long lost idiot. What had conch house under the doormat. @jj came along just then and let them in with his happened, where had I gone all that time? I door for this bewildered old white haired key. We hadn't heard a buzzer response. I suggested maybe the buzzer wasn't geezer, who then was able to push a door found a parking space next to some operative yet. Our hostess said she'd look onto another cell-like corridor that turned earthmoving equipment. I returned after into it in the morning. out to be an interior parking area for tenants. telling them to go on up, T'd follow. Not to After a reviving spirit, pleasant A Security guard sporting a ten gallon hat, wait. And just as well as it turned out. conversation, we thought we'd head for and horse opera badge, was sprinting I called a minute or two later to our home. Again I went out on my own, around punching clocks. I yelled, "Ilowdo hostess, who said she was buzzing the ostensibly to bring up the car so my you get out, afoot?" lie motioned to head buzzer. Again nothing as I stood expectantly mother-in-law wouldn't have so long to "thattaway". I began trotting "ihattaway!" RLJIT.HEWN U by. I could see on the other side of the walk. A dim notion. It was the last I saw of and could see headlights of an incoming car triangular-shaped, glassed-in entrance, three my dear ones for quite a while. and gates slowly ascending. Fulling on a \*^f CATERING folk trying vainly to get in the lobby from an I was unsure of which direction I had burst of speed I was able to duck under auto port. They motioned me, thinking I come from, and I opted to go left instead of them before they clanked down on me, I assortment inc. Susan Craig 294-7125 was about to enter, to let them in. I right. There were Exit signs at either end of found myself about an eighth of a mile up the block long hall. Left was a mistake. I the road from the other side of the blocks 404 DUVAL • KEY WEST pantomimed back, in my best Tati fashion, •—O> .. -O-

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REMARKABLE LADY OF KEY WEST limited funds and in a confined area are evident in her tiny apartment, which Movie Memorabilia Excellent Selection of Stills exhibits a delightful and interesting use of Posters, Lobby Cards & Color available space. Her balcony, outside her Photos, Old & New by June Brasgalla apartment on the second floor of a conch house, wraps around her apartment and is Some folks head for Key West to lose bright with flowers and comfy places to themselves; some to find themselves. sit and have lunch. Some see it as an adventure; others see it Besides working two days a week, as an escape. Some find culture and Teena fills the hours with activity that excitement; others find ennui and would tire a marathon runner! When Beginning our third year lethargy. One might say one finds what alone, she reads, writes letters, knits, with the largest selection one seeks. Or that we get out of life what sews, and paints. 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She and Don • Mexican Masks witty and charming people, sensuous place for compliments, as well as for the have given a birthday brunch each year paintings, good literature, and exciting fun of seeing all my friends." " ~~ " here in Key Westfor their many friends. • Folk Art theater. It doesn't take much money to Teena, a resident of St. Petersburg Teena Rice is an inspiration to enjoy all those things in Key West. until her husband's death in '66, was everyone who knows her! Her lifestyle You must have run into Teena in your Teena Rice recently honored by her children and proclaims loud and clear that life is for jaunts around the island! Browsing SAILOll to your seat at a Monroe County Junior grandchildren at a family reunion at The living....every minute of every day...no through one of several Kennedy Art Tides Hotel and Bath Club in Redington matter what you age! Long live Teena! M • And of course, Studios, where Teena has worked for 10 College production, or sat next to you at Hey! Sailor Sandals The Red Barn Theatre. Beach, FL. Twenty seven family years, you may have been helped by an members and 30 long-time friends still $29.95 attractive lady who is happy to give you You may have encountered her attended an Open House for Teena in advice on what to see and where to eat, working on the annual literary seminars celebration of her November birthday! along with your purchase of an original sponsored each January by the Monroe Teena literally danced on the table tops to water color or tee shirt. County Library. Or, you may have seen 605 WHITEHEAD ST illustrate her energy and zest for living! her modeling fashions from the Key West The following day, she amazed her 294-2627 PERHAPS YOU are an early riser? 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"I had a She left that afternoon, kissing months she was with us my Spanish choke over the weekend," she explains. Jackson on the chin, accepting her salary dictionary was never far from hand): she one daddy*s on-going odyssey "I won't be working for you anymore. for the full month with her usual disdain, had left her brutal husband in Costa Rica, decorations. The stereo played Bing annual GNP of Perth Amboy, though the My regards to the Little Mon." We later but climbing off her high horse long bringing with her her square faced by David Kaufelt Crosby's Perennial Christmas Songs. haughtiest nanny employment agency in .discover that Daisy was not the fifty seven enough to touch Lynny's hand in a daughter (eight, she looked and acted There was some idle and witty chatter Manhattan? she said she was but seventy five; that her gesture of infinite pity (you poor, trapped sixty), and had come to keep house for WE BREEZED THROUGH the first about constructing a cretch (creche?) The nanny, late, arrives only after choke was a stroke from which she creature, married to that animal) and her cousin, Ramon, whose own wife was month of Jackson's life in a whaling featuring a live Christ child (Jackson) but Lynn has departed. Taxies, she says and quickly recovered but decided, wisely, to good-bye. I was ignored, then and still in Costa Rica with four of their captain's house in Sag Harbor, Long the consensus was that the possibility of I think of Lynn in the subway, hoping retire from the nannying business. forever. children. The other four -- bad boys - Island, with my mother and her finding a virgin to play Mary in Key West against hope that no mugger is going to In her place we hired Robab, a Persian lived with Ramon and Maria in a house on housekeeper in constant and total seemed dim. Ralph, wearing red shorts, believe either her earrings or her coat is ("not Iranian," she was insistent: MARIE, THE CENTRAL the edge of Sag Harbor which we dubbed attendance. We didn't touch a diaper. real. Princess Daisy is shorter than I "Persian!") woman on the windy side of AMERICAN BOMBSHELL, exploded the Costa Rican Consulate. Handsome a red Sloppy Joe's T-shirt (Ernest : We spent the next two months in a deluxe Hemmingway'slikeness glowering) and a remembered, but perfectly sweet and thirty five who lived in an all woman next. She didn't speak a word of English Ramon, working as a mechanic, reputedly cigar maker's cottage located in a red night cap in his rendition of a Key capable, in a reassuring pale green hotel in the West Twenties with a mythic but she managed to communicate a myriad saving enough money to bring his wife to walled-in, swimming-pooled compound West Santa Claus, forbade such talk "in uniform, taking the red-faced Jackson telephone in the hall (we never once got in Key West, Florida. Ralph, the front of The Baby." We felt as if we were from my arms, pinching his chest, calling her on the phone) who came with a stack compound's leading literary agent's indeed leaving Jackson among Santa and him "Little Mon" as I retreat into the of brilliant references and some sort of a diminutive house man, crooned Italian his elves. bedroom where I am supposed to be degree from Oxford. She looked, GET A lullabies in Jackson's shell-like ear during We wondered, on that magical working on a novel. I hear a chorus of unfortunately, like the comedian Ruth his daily colic (5 to 6 p.m. like subtropical late December night, what our reassuring Little Mons throughout the Buzzy during her "Laugh-In" days and, clockwork) while we went for a walk (we other and more experienced friends were day. Daisy is from Jamaica (we learn this though clean, took what I decided was couldn't stand to see Jackson cry). cvetching (as opposed to cretching) about: when Lynn asks what her native language perverse pleasure in scary hair-dos Together, they passed the evenings we finding reliable, responsible people to care is and Daisy, much annoyed, says (hair-don'ts, mother said) and nauseating spent out on the town, watching television for Jackson was duck soup. English, of course. . .but an English as dress colors and designs of her own in Ralph's little penthouse atop his boss' spoken on Jamaica). She arrives late and making ("creations," she said.) house. Just call me Mama Mia, Ralph — CUT TO REALITY and Manhattan at leaves early -- her taxi driver, a Despite these and other foibles, our who had brought up half a dozen brothers the end of Lynn's three month maternity brother-in-law, will not drive in rush hour friends with children told us we had and sisters in his hometown of Brooklyn leave. Dripping in fox, she's putting on — and has an annoying habit of calling ourselves a gem. She was reliable and — said, making Jackson google. her gold Wings of Samathrace earrings Lynn at the office to tell her what she's bright and we were to do everything in On the night before Christmas Eve, we and her twenty minute face to take the missed: the Little Mon smiled for the first our power to please her. Jackson loved went to a supper party, leaving Jackson in subway up to Fifth Avenue and her job as time! Nor will she sit at night or prepare her despite the fact "that she had her own his portable wicker cradle on the sofa in a design director for one of the world's meals for either herself or me. "I am not eccentric ideas of child rearing. We lived WITH Ralph's boss' all-yellow living room fabled cosmetic and fragrance giantresses. the housekeeper. I am the nanny." I in a long, grey, multi-corridored loft and, while Ralph and half a dozen equally Jackson and I are clutching one another, make her white meat chicken, white bread on more than one occasion, I found skinny and little men friends put up the appalled at this defection. Where's the (lightly dusted with mayo) sandwiches myself shouting with fear when I came tree and strung colored lights and clever nanny we hired at a salary equal to the and, per instructions, cut off the crust. upon Robab, Jackson in her lap, sitting on the floor in unaccustomed places (e.g., behind the kitchen counter; next to the toilet in the guest John.) Once, I came into the loft to find Robab parading Jackson up and down a sixty foot hall WICKER WORKER under a sheet. He was crying, Robab explained, evidently subscribing to the INVITES YOU TO VISIT US AT OUR NEW LOCATION time honored keep-the-parrot-quiet tradition by shrouding him in darkness. Teeth clenched, I asked her never to use that technique again. She complied but not without a lot of tongue clicking and eye-rolling and muttered imprecations against American barbarians. AT THE REACH BY EARLY SPRING, Lynn had decided she had had enough with New [WICKER WDRKERJ York and her high pressure job, that she wanted to be with her child. So we sold the loft which we couldn't afford anyway and moved out to Sag Harbor, bringing Robab with us. She lasted three days. The air smells peculiar, she said, sniffing the unaccustomed fresh ozone as if it were ON OUR INITIATION FEE redolent with rotten eggs. She loathed the garden (too confining), the lack of traffic (Rfeg. $25Q/») (too somnolent) and her large, airy room with its own bath (which she wanted to 0Q paint red-brown). On her last day, while NOW $125. each when you join together she was holding an adoring Jackson, while Lynn and I were moving furniture, we had our final disagreement. Lynn wanted our new and wonderfully 296-5000 ext. 686 expensive sofa to face the fireplace and I S1MOIMTON AT THE OCEAN f~\~-*— ••— wanted it to face the french doors. Robab, at the end of her patience, said, neither of you have a shred of taste and 806 DUVAL 294-9958 you should junk that vulgar American »_»_- , --.<*.

Solares Hill _ January 1988 _ Page 19 Page 18 —January 1988 _ Solares Hill around Sag Harbor, followed by a coterie Sag Harbor, had seen our ad in the local Maria's square-faced child, just another perfect until the first morning when family publication. Finally we lucked into responsibility — to make for a situation in newspaper and had arrived with a happy-go-lucky Costa Rican expatriate. 'of grimy little girls in alarmingly adult Jackson cried and she called, hysterical, Katy who was a part time check-out girl at which we would place our child. We've giggling, jiggling (no bra) Maria to clothes. Jackson loved her, too. (By to say she couldn't have crying. There the now deceased Gulf Stream come a long way from the uppity, negotiate terms. THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT was now we were beginning to suspect was the girl whose father, we learned Supermarket, had a daughter (Miss starched nannies of Manhattan. But the the fact that whenever Ramon decided to Jackson had little refinement in taste from the pages of the Key West Citizen, Ashleigh) Jackson's age and who, for proof, as Ma used to say, is in the Maria was the real gem. We couldn't concerning loved ones, boding ill for the was a convicted child abuser and at home several years, could be seen at all hours of pudding and I'm pleased to report that give her any instructions so she did what take a day off, so did Maria. Invariably without notice. This happened, in the future.) We only became alarmed late in on parole. There was the boy who day and night schlepping Little Miss A. Jackson only gets better. S she thought she had to do: she cleaned the summer on a Saturday night, when, dressed like a girl and the girl whose and Mr. Jackson around Key West on her (mother was unimpressed but it was better beginning, every other week and then, increasingly, every week and, as Ramon walking up Main Street, we happened to purse opened to reveal a pistol and a bike. It always took a moment to than our efforts), cooked (the best arroz look up at the apartment over Sag year's supply of cocaine ("it's only been recognize her when she was without con polio I've ever been privileged to eat) grew bored with his job, every other day. I blew on a Friday when - after carefully Harbor's one disreputable bar. There was stepped on once,) she reassured us, them. and took care of Jackson who fell in love offering us a line). There was the Conch with her at first sight. They'd disappear telling both Ramon and Maria that Lynn Fat Patty, a bit glazed, leaning out the window, pea green in the bar's fading family who were sitting around the Eventually Katy and Ashleigh moved for entire days, Jackson arriving home and I had to go to New York on business up to Fort Lauderdale and we moved up (the long awaited closing on the loft) — neon light, shouting words we didn't breakfast table looking very Grant Woods with a chocolate smudged face and a full and down home when we left Jackson (seventeen miles north of Key West) the diaper, a big adorable smile. Sometimes she arrived to say, Ramon had the day off want to hear at a compatriot on the pavement. Next to her was grinning, off. . . they were still, all of them, sitting Keys, as they say, and encountered the we'd catch sight of him careening down and she couldn't take care of Jackson. ideal Holly and her mother, June, and Vaya con dios forever, Itold her, stuffing sleepy Jackson and next to him was a around the breakfast table but looking Main Street in the back of Ramon's truck, more Diane Arbus and plain drunk when thus introduced Jackson to the ever in the middle of the four bad boys and some money into her lovely hands. bare-chested, tatooed sailor. When we spoke to Fat Patty the next we picked him up five hours later. (For fascinating world of trailer camp We'd catch sight of her occasionally, activities. When Holly had the nerve to riding in Ramon's truck, their arms morning, she said she was resigning her once, Jackson was not smitten by his position, that she was going to have her captors.) There was the adorable country get married and move away and June around one another (such close cousins), (really!) left for the summer, we found the four bad boys and her daughter own baby. And she did, only a month girl from Virginia whose father was later (it was difficult to tell pregnant Patty stationed on the Navy base (she swore on another Holly (a very peppy twelve year HIGH TECH! sticking their tongues out at passers-by. her-Tammy Bakker bible that they had just old) and her kind and good mother (baby Both she and Ramon would flash us from unpregnant Patty)> We found, by sitters with mothers are as important as sheer luck, a happy, neo-hippy arrived and would be in residence for brilliant smiles as if nothing had passed years) and who came for Jackson every lox with bagels), Mary, not to mention between us, as if we were still on the best multi-racial family whose house smelled Holly's father, Eddie, who keeps Jackson of fresh vegetables and incense and who morning, swooping him up in her thin HIGH SUPPORT! of terms and maybe we were. arms, bringing him home in a variety of in stitches. Then there's Brian and/or his cared for Jackson (in many ways) for the brother, teenagers Jackson quotes often, rest of the summer and into the early fall inexpensive cars each night, giggling and FAT PATTY, Maria's successor, greasy faced. Happy, Charlene said, as a and a potential army of babysitters at the looked (5'1, 180 pounds) and smelled when we moved to Key West and had to new Sugar Loaf junior high. Our baby start all over again. pig in a poke. She didn't show up one (My Sin) totally unreliable. Seventeen or Monday morning and when we checked, sitting troubles seem, for the moment, to there-abouts, she came from one of Sag we discovered she and her entire family be over (though we're keeping our Harbor's oldest families, now down on The Key West Baby Sitting had been reassigned to Newport News collective fingers crossed). their uppers, resembled a blond Betty Nightmare and were on route? Betrayed again. Boop and spoke with a Mae West double There was the tiny Cuban housewife entendre inflection. She called Jackson whose tiny husband had a train running I suppose what we've learned during alternately "Woo Woo" and "Action around their tiny house in which Jackson THERE WERE OTHERS, too our baby sitting experiences is that it takes Jackson" and took him for endless walks could sit and who seemed caring and numerous and gruesome to mention in a love and more — a sense of family and ICE COLD BEER And other frozen beverages indigenous to the tropics inter arts Happy Hours lOam-1 pm and 4-7 pm THE KEY COLLECTION D.J. "Good Time We give L Of ACT $ Charlie" Plays Your Favorite Request Wed.-Sun. 8'pm-til you credit Ladies Nites Wed. & Sundav Key West Gonch for your An ingeniously 'BLAME Cubs Baseball jack success. cooled sandal with IT an arch support??? ON THE Jewelry Impossible!! MOON!" 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-I Solares Hill January 1988 _ Page 21 Page 20 _ January 1988 _ Solares Hill KEY WEST - Restaurateurs and Lounge owners gathered recently in Key West, Florida for the annual KEY WEST SIMILE AROUND ME RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE COMPETITION. During the event competitors were encouraged to be An Environmental Store The Everglades hum like a crowd whispering a song. creatively different and unique, while at mm The fish swims like a racing car. the same time retaining a sense of The Greenpeace Store in Key West is owned and t^t The palm fronds wave like a bird taking off. familiarity for excellence. operated by Greenpeace, and all profits help fund The seaweed sways like your cat's tail. This, the second year of the Greenpeace environmental campaigns. We carry a The spiders' legs move like they are marching in a parade. competition, Cafe des Artistes won BEST The lightning bug glows like a polka dot in the sky. IN SHOW out of two hundred entries. In complete line of gift items including: STORE The jellyfish stings like needles poking you. 1986, the restaurant won the same award "•Adult and Children's Clothing-JewelryjiScoiptures The hitchhikers* stick like bubble gum on your shoes. A state of mind is now a state of being. Jimmy Buffet* for their dish, LOBSTER TANGO •Posters»Books»Cards«GamesJo^Afr'Ages»Stationary 612 Duval The raccoons scavenge like someone looking for buried treasure. MANGO, and patrons have by choice •Stuffed Animals*New Age-Music*And Lots More Parrot Head paraphernalia, Caribbean Soul clothing, The deer freezes like a stone statue. 296-4442 and lots of Key West colpr. • THE MARGARITAVILLE declared it to be the most favorite dish The leaves flutter to the ground like golden snow falling. served by the restaurant. STORE 500 DUVAL KEY WEST, FL. 33040 The sun shines like an orange fireball. KEYS CONOrfN: Drilling for Oil and Other Minerals [305)296-3070 Cafe des Artistes was again honored with the 1987 award for their new dish, * - A "hitchhiker" is a furry seed pod which sticks to whatever brushes by it, STONE CRAB GINGER SNAPS, "My staff are some of the most talented people by Christina Harwood, fifth grade student of Mrs. Jan Donaldson in their field. Their dedication and in Creative Writing at Sigsbee Elementary School. imagination have really made Cafe des Artistes the award winner it has become," said Timothy Ryan, owner. He also said that he and his staff have been overwhelmed with congratulations from all over the area. Cafe des Artistes is now in its sixth season in Key West and is becoming more and more popular each year for locals and visitors alike. The restaurant has received excellent reviews in the past year by such publications as Miami South Pictured here are the winners of the Second Annual Official Key West Food and Florida Magazine, Fort Myers News : Press, South Florida Home and Garden, Beverage Competition representing the Pier Housi Resort, Louie's Backyard, and Modern Bride. It is now the location Marriott's Casa Marina, Two Friends, Conch Pasta and Pastry, The Sidewalk Cafe, of the annual event, BASTILLE DAY, N.A.S. Boca Chica, Foley Square, El Loro Verde, Croissants de France, Cafe at MA^GARITAVILLE held during the month of July. Louie's, Beach Club Bar, Rooftop Cafe, Cafe des Artistes and the Hukilau.

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Although much of the reef BENDER- Nature's Way: January Journey neighboring areas. Several discarded major does not, as yet, enjoy official protection, it home appliances found their way to this INC. Serving Key West since 1938 has been illegal in the past few years to pick by Alice Terry Roosevelt Boule- vard. First impressions nest, too. Derelict cars and trailers line the or sell coral in the Keys. TANIS are lasting irnpres- sions. Millions of upper Angela Street roadside ... accom- Coral grows at an incredibly slow rate: ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW IN REAL ESTATE. Airlines - Cruises - Tours It's January and the start of a brand-new advertising dollars have been expended in panied by trailers, compressors, and extra about 1.2 centimeters a year. Because of Sales • Renta! • Management Rail Cars - Hotels - Packages year. New Beginnings. New Hopes. New the effort to lure tourists to our Paradise. vehicles owned, by the most part, by non- this slow growth rate, when a section of Pleasures. New Accomplishments. A new We welcome them with a profusion of ugly residents. The two years' worth of appeals reef is damaged, it may take decades for Travelers Cheques emphasis on nature and the environment. signs, unappetizing tho- roughfares, and by the neighborhood to city officials and new growth to restore the community to its complete, professional service Here is some of the good news, for poorly maintained, disap- pearing beaches. agencies continues to fall on deaf ears. former glory. Recent alarming news con- starters. The Tourist Development Council A glaring example of the city's lack of Commissioner Harry Powell is now work- cerns the fact that some of the South Florida MARC HINES.BROKER Mon.-Fri. Searstown has released the monies which were ear- concern over its properties is its scandalous ing towards correcting this sorry state of reefs are losing their color and taking on a marked for beach renourishment and other disregard of the Peary Court situation. affairs. Maybe the highly-touted Clean Up bleached condition. Scientists feel that there 605 Simonton St. shoreline work in Key West. The Reef Peary Court, owned by the Navy, is leased Key West Campaign could start in the Peary is an atmospheric cause for this phenome- 296-6200 Relief people staged a most successful to the City of Key West for $ 1 a year. This Court area. Tomorrow. No, today. non, rather than a localized disease. The 294-3711 fundraiser at East Martello, which added area, once home to an army housing project, THE WEATHER AT THIS TIME OF soft coral reefs off Palm Beach County are about $15,000 to their coffers. This means became a lovely, inviting greenspace after year is pretty "iffy." However, we may turning white, as are the reefs off the Lower i B'!! U more help for the endangered reef. The the dismantling and removal of the buildings expect an aver- age temperature of 69.6° and Keys. There was a similar occurrence near MacArthur Foundation has awarded a 1.25 of the military camp. Huge, wonderful approximately 1.53 inches of rain, allowing Key West in 1983. The color did return to WHEN YOU THINK OF INTERIORS THINK Of S©r@ €©@k million dollar challenge grant to the Florida trees remained in place and a lovely green for various outdoor activities. these corals, leading to the hope that the cur- j chapter of the Nature Conservancy for the grass carpeted the ground, affording locals In the garden, protect blooming annuals rent bleaching is a temporary one. Reef life PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SALES protec- tion and maintenance of priority and tourists a cool, inviting retreat. It was from pests. Fertilize twice during January is based on a delicate balance of atmospheric A Personal Finn With A Proven Track Record habitats and species in the Florida Keys. In especially appreciated by the neighborhood, for vigorous growth and heavy flowering. conditions. When corals suffer, the ocean's Specializing In Full-Service Management addition, it awarded the National Audubon Clip faded blooms to prevent seeding. health must be questioned. Fishing, boating a collection of older, kept-up homes popul- Residential • Commercial Seasonal & Yearly Rentals Society $855,000 over a three-year period ated, mostly, by working or retired locals. Amaryllis will produce larger blossoms on and related businesses, diving, and tourism for eco- system research in the Keys. The Two years ago Hycon used the park-like taller stems if fertilized. Plant seeds of in general depend on healthy coastal waters. Industrial Florida Keys Land Trust was awarded a land as the staging arena for its massive ageratum, balsam, dianthus, gaillardia, We must escalate our efforts to maintain REPRESENTING OVER 60 COMPANIES IN $300,000 challenge grant by the MacArthur machinery and enormous piles of sand, gra- morning-glory, nasturtium, portalaca and and further protect our precious natural FABRICS AND WALL COVERINGS resources. There must be public education, COMPLETE LINE MINI-BLINDS Founda- tion to implement a long-range vel, broken-up street surfaces and the like. torenia. Bulbs to plant now are calacium, AND VERTICALS strategic plan that addresses land acquisition The mountainous piles of rubble and dust- calla, crunium, eucharis, gloriosa, Easter community awareness and action as well as Lamps - Bedspreads - Draperies and educa- tion needs. producing hills of dirt eventually disap- lily, tuberose and zephyranthes. political action. Private dollars and public Slip Covers - Cushions dollars need to be raised and expended. "One Of The LargestlSelections Of Fabrics peared, and the neighborhood breathed a INCREASING ATTENTION has been In The Keys" COMPLIMENTS TO THE STATE "of collective sigh of relief. The contracted re- focused, the past few months, on the coral These are all parts of the picture. Let's call ourselves environmentalists and activists. Florida for planting decorative palms at the seeding of the ground by Hycon consisted reef of the Florida Keys. This reef is the 294-9600 The labels don't matter. What matters is 500 Simonton Street 294-8491 entrance to Key West. Hopefully, the city of a half-hearted scattering of grass seed by third longest barrier reef system in the MLS will take a cue from this orderly, simple that we act now. Let's all get involved. 905 Truman Ave. hand. Today, we have a dusty, scarred world,, stretchingg 250 miles from the Dry landscaping and continue it on North KMi Th Today. race-track for speeding autos and trucks, Tortugas to Soldier KeynearMaami. The CHEAP ROOMS THE LOBSTER MAN FISH MARKET WE PACK IN ICE Day TO TRAVEL Week Shrimp specials weekly! Month I LARGE SHRIMP ^;:;: TV-AC Northern Italian ('uitine MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE OYSTERS & CLAMS 615 Duval Street, Key Went FLORIDA OYSTERS SMOKED FISH & SHRIMP 294-6565 WATERFRONT CAMPGROUND & TRAILER PARK A. fmt^f rs -.. .,.. Parkins YELLOWTAIL IN DOWNTOWN KEY WEST SNAPPER ' s •,v:ih liMiLLs ire*-; AI:H-LII«;S- MOBILE HOWt SP;RIMEN! uilUGL K GROUPER VAN f.KWiiR 'A'^'l :< IRAIILK S!fL'i • t-'ul L HiJOHUPS HO! *K!l.'.t^ nu\1F - The TILTON HILTON OLD TOWN BICYCLE RENTALS d, of course, LOBSTER 223 ELIZABETH ST., (305) 294-5723 NEXT TO BOCA CHICA BAR 511 ANGELA ST. 294-8697 RESERVATIONS WELCOME U.S.1, STOCK ISLAND 294-4923 SoJares Hill — January 1988 Page 25 Page 24 _ January 1988 __ Solares Hill The Key West Players, Inc., as a participant in this year's Arts Explo, is sponsoring the Craft Show in addition to its presentation of the chilling mystery Arts Explo '88 Craft Show play by Agatha Christie, the ever-popular Mousetrap, December 21 through January by Florence Recher 2. A concert by Matthew Jampol, A permitted. What will be displayed in the Burke. Tribute to Key West Poets, January 24 at The third annual Arts Explo Craft booths is hand-made and of original Ms. Dorothy Downs, MPA, is an art 4:00 pm at the Waterfront Playhouse, an Show will be held January 30 and 31. It concept. Among the varied crafts are the consultant and appraiser whose studio and afternoon of music, poetry and dance. is the final event for Arts Explo '88, unusual, such as woven hammocks, cloth home are in Miami. Ms. Downs is an The Players hope to continue serving the culminating the successful presentation of and rugs, and stained glass room screens. experienced judge, having judged many community and its visitors by presenting a varied program of cultural events In addition there will be jewelry made art shows throughout Florida and the programs of interest and pleasure for all. encompassing all of Monroe County from from natural materials, gold, silver and Southeast. An author who specializes in wood, pottery which is practical and Remember, Saturday and Sunday, Key Largo to Key West. Indian art, her books and articles are January 30 and 31, from 10 am to 5:30 beautiful with colorful glazes, clothing widely read. Ms. Downs is a former staff The show is gaining yearly in from hand-dyed to hand-painted and pm, the Arts Explo Craft Show may be popularity among crafts artists. The member of the University of Miami and of seen at Whitehead and Greene Street in sewn, belts, bags and bracelets made the Lowe Art Museum. Ms. Downs seventy artists selected from several from leather. Prices range from a few Mallory Square. It is necessary that the hundred applicants are some of the best in received her advanced degree at the community support this event by bringing dollars to several hundred. There is University of Miami, Coral Gables. their chosen crafts. Some favorite something for everyone. the family for a day's outing and pleasure exhibitors from previous years are William Burke, MFA, is an Associate Browsing at last to help establish the show as a continuing returning this year plus many who are A total of $1,200 in Merit Awards plus Professor of Art at Florida International year's show. attraction in Key West. See the show ~ showing their work in Key West for the ribbons will be presented by the Key admission is free, m West Players, Inc., sponsors of this University in Miami. In addition to his first time. The show is limited to original teaching duties, Mr. Burke is a well work only; no manufactured goods are event. The judges for the Merit Awards will be Dorothy Downs and William known artist and maintains a studio in his home in Miami. DR. KATHERINE A. HOOVER'S THE RAZZ A FINE COLLECTION OF Sunbelt Medical Center TODAY'S HOTTEST CHINESE ANTIQUES IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE SCOOTER VALUE THAT AND DECORATIVE ARTS jr r YAMAHA Dr. Carmine G. Mandarono, M.D. Razz Scooter FORA HAS JOINED OUR GROUP SOPHISTICATED CLIENTELE

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Gocktails in the popular SUNBELT MEDICAL CENTER .ALLEN WEST INDIES LOUNGE Open 11 to 6 Monday Thru Saturday Office hours from 8:00 AM-7:00 PM Mon.-Fri. Key Largo 451-1980 COMPANY 9:00 AM-2.-0OPM Sat. Marathon 743-9008 Key West 294-2542 INSURANCE ATTHE SANTA MARIA •MOTE I (305)29t>-5e>78 No Appointment Necessary SINCE 1891 •.'• 1401 SIMONSTON STO itEVWES% FLORIDA David W. Freeman, CP.C.U. 429 Caroline St. (at Duval) 294-2136 333 Fleming St. William A Freeman, Jr. (305) 296-7509 William A Freeman ill, C.I.C. Solares Hill — January 1988 _ Page 27 Page 26 _ January 1988 Solares Hill wanted to sell it. Boisonault, with his own book operation in the small college town of 1 Farmingdale, N.Y., perked up his ears. Negotiations started. Boisonault scouted Best^Bargains! For fishermen, swimmers, divers, sunbathers, nature lovers! Island Book Store: New Mecca For Readers, Collectors the territory and soon the deal went through Betty at Little Torch Key M.M. 28 for 40 years ! including some 8,000 books in the inven- • Canal home - adults $89,900 • New oceanfront home - $150,000 the influence and reputation of the small tory. Today, that inventory has climbed to by Bud Jacobson interesting material. over 16,000 volumes, tastefully displayed • Canal lots $18,000 and up appreciation of what's book shop by offering his place for informal and clearly marked in shelves and units • Oceanfront lots $60,000 to $100,000 o^ivwuuu ^ ^ autographin^..^m-nnWrngr sessionopcnnncs in thflipe eveninpvpmngn durinilii«-g» In the 18 months since John Boisonault going on in town, Bolnsonault has extended throughout the store. • Inland lots $4,000 and up took over the books, shelves and what re- the Writers' Workshop, Jan. 10-14, at the • List with us for fast sales nearby La Concha Hotel. One large portion of the store, up front mained of the lease in the Key West Island and set aside, is devoted to Key West and BETTY ^BROTHERS REAL ESTATE, INC. The Writers' Workshop is sponsored by BETTY M. REIN, LICENSED REAL ESTATE BROKER Book Store at 513 Fleming Street, he and Florida Keys subjects, a favorite browsing Florida International University in tandem, P.O. BOX 456, U.S. 1, M.M. 28, LITTLE TORCH KEY, FL 33043 his wife, Maritone, have transformed the place for many of the tourists and locals. My childhood dream was (o live in a home PHONE 294-0513, 745-3815, 872-9845, 872-2054, 294-3594,745-1796 with the Literary Seminar and will feature that looked out on the open sea . • • WRITE OR PHONE FOR FREE COMPUTER LIST AND FREE MAPSI shop into a handsome, smartly merchan- Moving down from New York, Boison- dized emporium which, like all good book teaching and discussion meetings with ault brought with him his long-treasured stores, has that indefinable air of welcome James Crumley, Joy Williams, Henry collection of Ernest Hemingway novels, to all those who enjoy reading and Taylor and John Katzenbach. The writers first editions, signed copies, notes and meandering through aisles stacked with will be available in the bookstore, just down essays. Estimated value at retail? About the street, after the meetings. $20,000, he reckons. it a few years and then made the move to John Boisonault has also signed a This was the valuable core of a steadily Key West. contract with the Literary Seminar organiza- Receptions and book signings for growing collection of rare books which he "The potential for a literary bookshop tion as the exclusive bookseller who'll have January (to follow evening readings keeps in his back room for scholars and was here and we liked the place a lot. a display stall in the lobby at the Tennessee at the Key West Public Library): serious book buffs who really know their There's more to it than appears on the sur- Williams Fine Arts Center during the semi- stuff in that esoteric field. That special face to many of the tourists so we thought nar. Last summer, the Key West Island Jan. 10 -- Henry Taylor collection of the old, rare and unusual now we could promote the local writers, the Book Store sponsored the short story numbers over 1,200 volumes. scene here, tropics, the things offered in Jan. 11 - Joy Williams abundance in a small island." contest during Hemingway Days. Jan. 12 -- John Katzenbach "I really got going in this direction in "I think we help ourselves and the town Jan. 13 -- James Crumley high school. A very good English teacher Boisonault's shop on Fleming Street, a by taking part actively in these events," got me onto Hemingway and I started col- smattering of smaller book stores around town and an excellent public library have all Boisonault remarks. Upcoming signings: lecting his writing. Before long I had about n Boisonault is not a newcomer to the 450 articles, books and essays." contributed substantially to a steadily grow- ing reputation of Key West's cultural level. ways and wiles of the modern retailer who Irving Weinman During those years Boisonault worked in has accurately gauged his market and aims Alexander Cockburn a supermarket chain operation for about 14 "People read more and more and we're \ f directly at success. Edwin Riley years, where he learned well the ins and here to channel the habit of reading, explor- John and Maritone were on vacation in outs of merchandising, inventory controls, ation by the mind and to encourage younger Jim Harrison buying, markups, etc. After leaving the John Boisonault the spring of 1986 when they came to Key school and college people to read good West and strolled into the book store, then large store, he bought his own shop, owned books," Boisonault said. |gj] owned by Terry Risko. Risko said he

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profession, but after ten years of traveling of the world's greatest, buskers from CONCH For the last five months Buskerfest and performing his own act all over the seven different countries into coming to organizers, under the guiding whip of U.S., Europe and Canada, Will Soto has Key West for a week this January. Says REPUBLIC Will Soto, have been putting together the met many of the best. As director of Soto, "Why not Buskerfest? It wasn't 2nd International Street Performers Buskerfest he has managed to talk some very hard to get the performers here in BASKET Festival. January. It's been a lot of work setting o BASKETS A LA CARTE LTD. exclusive The pertinent question in regard to up the details, but I'm sure that anyone Includes a selection Buskerfest would seem to be, "Just what who comes to the festival will see of wonderful products is a busker?" Joan Toast, Head Cook and something they have never seen before, from Key West Bottlewasher and sometimes Assistant more than once." and the Florida Keys Coordinator of the six-day event says, "It looks like it's going to be great," "It's a funny word. Busker. Some says Toast. "It's wild to think they.are all people might even be embarrassed to say going to be here at once. On this little it out loud in an elevator. Not me. It's an island! I've seen some of these acts on old word. It's Old English slang for a video. Most of them are not what you person who carried all his worldly A LA CARTE LTD. would call normal fare, but that's not 8I2 Southard Street • Keij West, Florida 33040 possessions in a big floppy hat and went what Buskerfest is all about." from village to village making people For Style & Elegance ... (305) 294-4496 • 296-0496 happy by entertaining them and forcing An Exceptional Shoe Salon them to laugh. Afterwards he would BUSKERFEST WILL HOST 22 From Key West with Love accept food or money to help him move events from January 13-18. The main on to the next town." events will be two street fairs, a family Our Basket contains: These days the term busker is used to day in Bayview Park, Truman Annex a Conch Shell filled with Hard Carjdy Sea Shells refer to any street performer who passes Day, and two vaudeville variety shows to 16 oz of Conch Chowder his or her hat after a performance. Some be held in Jan McArt's. Selected buskers 16 oz of Key West Lime Juice examples of different kinds of buskers are will perform at businesses around town musicians, mimes, dancers, puppeteers, and lunchtime busking shows and 4 oz of our own Conch-Mix ground coffee ropewalkers, aerialists, jugglers, workshops will be held daily. All of the 9 oz of Preserves from Lazy Afternoon fire-eaters, sword swallowers and many events will be free to the public with the Jewelry Genius™ 4.3 oz of Aloe Max 100 by Key West Aloe, Inc. other acts which simply do not lend exception of the two vaudeville shows. Doni leave Key West without WiHfielcl Jack's 14K Key Weil conch pendant. (305) 29&-2S32 themselves to stock descriptions. . +.- (IIIOM who wear Ihe conch, they wy, retam toKe y West again wmeaayt) This Key Kookin' booklet of Key West recipes Steve Hanen, "The Puppet Man," from For a complete schedule of events call elegant boutique In an enchanting (topical garden features original designs by by Glad Whitetey New. York will be on hand to delight and a brilliant local craftsman. See Ihe famous laughing Dolphin Rings with dozens the Buskerfest World Headquarters at of tiny willing dolphin*, Open every day from 10 to* . (AMX, MC, Visa) The Greater Key West Chamber of Commerce Map BUSKING IS NOT A CROWDED entertain audiences during Buskerfest '88. 604 Duval Street, Old Town, Key West 294-1665. H 111 DUVAL 294-7092 The Official Conch Republic Flag

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1100 DUVAL STREET KEY WEST.FLORIDA 75 Ldn noise levels. But-these contour Study (325 pages) and it is obvious that annoyed should complain more, and lines will not be determined by actual nobody (public that is) was satisfied with when public hearings are held, they noise measurements. Rather they will be the result. should attend and speak out. Lastly, the determined by mathematical calculations Back in Key West we observed county commission, as the airport (computer modeling) using inputs of AVPLANS technician Ken Reed taking operator, should be urged to adopt an by Bill Westray about $18-$ 19 million for the parcels. KEY WEST SALT PONDS. This 407 aircraft type, frequency of flight, flight noise measurements around our airport. aircraft noise control ordinance modeled FDIC would seem now to have about $30 acre C.A.R.L. project around Key West. paths, and other such factors. While The 7 a.m. departure of Piedmont Flight after the New Haven code. PORT BOUGAINVILLE. During million invested. We would hope that this International Airport, received a setback noise measurements will be made, they 808 measured by Reed at the rear of Key December another important step in the remaining transaction could be completed recently when the C.A.R.L. selection Will be made to confirm what the West by the Sea on December 7 produced North Key Largo Habitat Conservation quickly between the two public agencies committee decided, to put on "hold" all BEACHES. Late newspaper item: computer modeling predicted, and not to a peak of 104.7 DBA. This was similar County Commissioner Jerry Hernandez Plan process transpired. Port so that the people's interest could be C.A.R.L. projects below priority Number determine the contour lines. The contour to readings we obtained previously for Bougainville, the 2800-unit, 400-acre, satisfied. We would also hope that DNR 16 because of fund limitations. The Salt now wishes to ignore the lines themselves might be expected to F-28 and B-727 operations at various recommendations of city and county bankrupt condominium project went on and its C.A.R.L. staff would "get Ponds which are Number 34 on the barely extend beyond the side boundaries locations around the city. We read the the auction block at the Monroe County state's 40-project list,"thus fell below the engineering consultants and widen Rest of the airport, and will look like long lengthy transcripts of public testimony at Beach to 160 feet for its entire length from Courthouse steps, to satisfy part of the active-negotiation group even though elipses that encompass the runways, and Naples and began to realize that the Part Developer's $55 million mortgage considerable money had already been White Street Pier to Bertha Street. This in Key West, curve northward for a mile 150 study had settled nothing there with proposal would bury about 11 acres of indebtedness to Federal Deposit Insurance spent on appraisals, bargain acquisitions, or so through Cow Key Channel. The respect to public annoyance at the Corporation. After one bid of $29 million etc. Friends of Florida under Jimmy valuable fish and marine nursery wetlands consulting engineers doing the study, commuter jet noise. We then read an and destroy the game and shell fish that by FDIC itself the land and improvements Buffet, who had raised thousands of AVPLANS of Cincinnati, is experienced ordinance which the City of New Haven became the property of FDIC, apparently dollars in a November concert, as well as spawn'and develop there. There seemed in the process and has recently done had adopted that did seem to control the to be an implication that the commissioner leaving a $26 million indebtedness still the city and Florida Audubon, saw a lot of similar studies at Naples, Florida, and problem. They simply passed a law owed FDIC by developer Fritz their recent efforts disregarded. In would hold up Smathers and Higgs Beach Fort Lauderdale. which prohibited aircraft which produced renourishment and renovation unless he Scharenberg. This transaction particular, negotiations with Larry Marks more than a specific noise level at source 1 presumably clears the way for the Florida for his forty acres of borderline Naples is an airport similar to Key got his way. Hernandez proposal would cracking" on the remainder of this West, with two 4800-foot runways rather from operating from New Haven Airport primarily benefit private interests along Department of Natural Resources to Number ONE state C.A.R.L. project, developable land, have been broken off at various intervals during the day and negotiate purchase of the parcels from for the present and are not apt to be than one. We visited there in November Rest Beach at public expense. We would which has as its object the preservation of and talked at length to the Noise night. For example, aircraft producing hope that other members of the county FDIC as part of the North Key Largo C. the Coral Reef, as well as preservation of renewed in light of the fund cutoff for this more than 70 DBA according to FAA A.R.L. (Conservation and Recreation project. Mayor Heyman has written a Abatement Officer, Richard Oakes. Its commission and the beach advisory habitat for four endangered animal noisiest aircraft are b-28 Fokkers and certified tests, can operate only from 7 committee would act in favor of the Lands) project. DNR has been offering -species. strong letter to the C.A.R.L. committee a.m. to 10 p.m., those over 78 DBA can't on behalf of the city asking that the Salt Grumman G-3 Gulfstreams operated by overall public interest, not the privileged commuter airlines. They are both about use New Haven at all. Most turbo props few. Let's get on with putting sand on Pond project be exempt from the cutoff can meet this standard but few older jets rule because of its status of already being 100 DBA (weighted decibel) noise Smathers Beach where it's desperately sources. They seem to be the most can. At nightime the noise restriction is needed; let's fix Higgs Beach pier; let's in the active negotiation stage, and lowered to about 65 decibels. One other HAPPY because it lies in the state designated annoying. However, even though many cut a gap in White Street pier and restore measurements were recorded around the factor came out in the Naples hearings. shoreline continuity as the engineers "Area of Critical State Concern." We Very few people actually phoned the urge the C.A.R.L. committee to airport in the 90-100 DBA range, the 65, recommended; however, let's go slow NEW YEAR 70, 75 LDN contour lines fell mostly airport to complain. But overflow crowds and look hard before disturbing Rest reconsider its cutoff rule for the Salt attended the public hearings and voiced FROM Ponds. We urge our readers to express within airport boundaries because they Beach where the fish and birds feed and were averages of noisy and quiet periods. complaints. The lesson would appear to grow, m their concerns to the C.A.R.L. be. clear to Key Westers. Those who are Committee, Department of Natural We have a copy of the final Naples Noise Resources, 3900 Commonwealth Blvd., ISLAND LIQUORS Tallahassee, Florida 32304. NEW YEARS SPECIALS AIRPORT NOISE. The long delayed FAA Part 150 airport noise studies got Finlandia Vodka - Litres $9.99 underway in early December for both Key Moet Chandon White Star 750mL - $16.59 West International Airport and Marathon Airport. During public meetings in late November we' learned more about the $5.99 Litre Rack - Rum • Gin • Vodka study process and What it might reveal It will cose $130,000 for both airports; it Extensive Selection of Wine & Champagnes will take about a year; it will contain recommendations for landing and f K Imported Beers and Unique Gift Selections departure flight paths to minimize noise impacts on developed»areas. In particular THE. PLACE FOR SPORTS it will determine new airport noise contour DINNER 6:00-11:00 539 U.S. 1 - Stock Island 296-5004 lines around the runway for 65, 70, and Page 34 — January 1988 — Solares Hill Solares Hill _ January 1988 Page 35 "WHODUNIT," JANUARY 14-17, attitudes and values of various 1988 will feature best-selling mystery subcultures in the United States. WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY... AND WHODUNIT? writers Mary Higgins Clark, James W. FILM ADAPTATIONS Hall, Carl Hiaasen, Tony Hillerman, A discussion concerning the complex Elmore Leonard, Donald E. Westlake, process of transposing mystery Charles Willeford plus other authors, fiction from the page to the screen, by Monica Haskell Jane O'Reilly or She! Silverstein or writers, readers, scholars, editors, critics, editors, publishers and scholars Richard Wilbur browsing Li the stacks.) publishers, critics and the curious meet with emphasis on changes required for four days of panel discussions, and mystery fans. by the fikn medium. The placid pink library in Key West But, organizers wondered, would Panel topics include: was the site of the first annual Key West anyone come? K^y West usually relied cocktail parties, scholarly dialogue and PUZZLES, WHODUNITS AND on the lure of turquoise waters, azure celebrity gossip. THE DETECTIVE AS PROCEDURALS: VARIETIES Literary Seminar in 1983, sponsored CONTEMPORARY HERO A discussion of the various types of ITALIAN by the Council for Florida Libraries and skies and sensuous sea breezes to draw A discussion concerning the various SPECIALTIES an outgrowth of the Florida Book and visitors. Its literary heritage offered a THE COUNCIL FOR FLORIDA mystery fiction and the strategies for LIBRARIES passed sponsorship of the forms taken by the protagonist in their construction, including the Author Festival. The location was apt; more subtle pleasure. mystery fiction, including the mythic, Tennessee Williams researched here, Interest was overwhelming, though, Seminar on to the local Friends of the perspectives of both the critic and the Library organization, who administered archetypal and cultural significance of working novelist. beneath the seagrapes and frangipani, as and as a result the Seminar flourishes this figure. i ^ SIDEWALK CAFE did other writers, scholars, and poets. every January, examining various topics the program for several years until the scope became so great as to overwhelm MYSTERY FICTION AND WESTERN I SELECTION OF BEER & WINE (Today you might meet John Hersey or of literary interest. Writers, would-be CULTURAL ATTITUDES I Tues.-Sat. 11 AM to 10 PM Sun.-Mon. 11 AM to 5 PM the Friends' capacities. Now an ALSO ON THE PROGRAM are a ' L_,__ 628 Duval Street - 296-7696 I independent, non-profit corporation, the An examination of how our cultural keynote address, mystery film discussion Key West Literary Seminar, Inc. is values influence mystery fiction. series, exhibition of mystery book jacket managed by a dedicated board of directors MYSTERY LITERATURE AS A art, question and answer sessions, and active in the fields of business and social receptions. There will be a walking literature, and professionally staffed. tour of Great Key West Mysteries led by Past Seminars have investigated the popular novelist and Seminar co-founder life and work of Ernest Hemingway David Kaufelt. "You can (1985), Tennessee Williams (1986), By popular request, the Seminar is Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and holding a hands-on writing workshop the Writers & Key West (1987). In 1988, the week preceding the Mystery Seminar, Seminar presents "Whodunit?," an, from January 10-14, 1988. exploration of the historic legac jf Co-sponsored by Florida International literary influence of the mystery genre. University, the workshop sessions in POLO feel the South Florida and the,-Keys have screenwriting, journalism, poetry and served as the ; ^getting for much fiction will be led by James Crumley, contemporary mystery fiction, from the John Katzenbach, Henry Taylor and Joy assortment inc. Travis McGee series by the late John D. Williams. MacDonald to James Wilson Hall's 404 DUVAL • KEY WEST difference.' current best seller, "Under Cover of LOOKING AHEAD, January, of Daylight." Local residents are as 1989 will feature noted contemporary intrigued as the rest of the world by the writers in "The American Short Story: A University. For more information, or to area's image as an exotic fantasy land of Renaissance." be placed on the mailing list, write Key Pain Relief Alternatives mystery and intrigue where labyrinthine Co-sponsors for 1988 include The West Literary Seminar, Inc., P.O. Box plots are hatched over pina coladas and Monroe County Library Board and the 391, Sugarloaf Shores, FL 33044 or played out under palm trees, in mangrove May Hill Russell Library of Key West, phone 305-745-3640. at swamps, and on paradisaical beaches. Elmore Leonard, one of the more promi- The Monroe County Tourist Development The Seminar is established in the nent members of this year's seminar. Council, The Florida Center for the Book, literary consciousness as the gathering The Florida Endowment for the place for readers and writers in January; MIRROR OF AMERICAN Humanities (a state program of the don't miss "WHODUNIT," January SUBCULTURES National Endowment for the Humanities), 14-17, 1988. m A discussion concerning the ways in The Miami Herald, the Council for Massage which mystery literature reflects the Florida Libraries and Florida International Therapy

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Arnold L Hermelin, LMT, Director Uncommon Clothes for (305) 2g4'82oi/3331A Simonton, Key West, FL33040 LAST FLIGHT OUT Uncommon People MEMBER AMTA, FSMTA, FLORIDA LIQMM0000790 EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE AT ORIGINAL HAMDSCREENED DESIQWS PERKINS & SON CHANDLERY 710 DUVAL/OLD TOWM Page 36 _ January 1988 _ Solares Hill Solares Hill _ January 1988 — Page 37 --III.—— ^^——1. GALLER Y HOPPING LANE GALLERY by Gordon Lacy Gingerbread's artists are not the only a fine art gallery benefactors; we, unwashed public, too, can in the heart of gallery row The season got kicked off at Richard know that the chic exists along with old- Heyman's GINGERBREAD GALLERY conch-made-folklore, hand in hand. SoMo with a show of the gallery artists. A new has been upgraded. The show was also the 808 DUVAL STREET launching of the Art Explo 1988 season 1 at Jordons Cafe salle has been created during the summer hiatus and inside one could easily think with Parvan on the dais to list the Art Open Noon-5 PM oneself on 57th Street and I do not mean the Council's long and varied coming schedule. Village or SoHo, or perhaps in Paris, Right Something for everybody, man, woman and Closed Monday child, and if you do not support it, I'll kill Bank, of course. A perfect room and UJHI?€H€flD STR€€T POTTCRV , 296-5858 you. The show was highlighted by three Ron Clemons' oils of a quality and strength 1011 LUhitehpad St. Key West. R 33040, (305) 294-5067 *«. t that we haven't seen from Ron for a while. } \ The whole Gallery was well represented by PORCGIRIN, sTONeuuflfie s> RAKU vessels its artists, but I'm not going to list as I did WHITE STREET GALLERY fi 4 last month. The first one-man show of their wood panels by Reverend Finster, a naif probably find a Donna Rice or a couple of Van Eno's paintings I have to rest season was Michael Palmer's. His work is artist and some of John Martini's dross and joints smoked fifteen years ago and so ambivalent about his work, as I always have 12 January comprised of local scenes and characters, finely done cut-steel works. The Gallery what? Why is it always so hard to overlook been. He was a remarkable draftsman and Paintings by mainly children; The tone is light, the will be showing its artists through the the personalities and just get down to work? colorist and yet ... whereas I can admire, I Germond, Gregogna, Henocque, month of January, which also heralds the do not automatically like. His best work Simone, Soisson arrival of Jean-Louis LeBrun. EAST MARTELLO's annual Christmas was grouped behind screens with a warning Lithographs by tree decoration auction party was a smash sign, "Adult Pictures." What America does Adami, Dali, Fassianos, ARISTOS because of the rain; everyone figured they not understand it chooses to ignore, as GALLERY I have resisted speaking of Parvan and had better go as no one in his right mind though children do not realize they have Lorjou, Telemaque, Vasserely all the foofaraw that seems to surround him. would be there with the result that everyone genitals. The deeper these secrets are 26 January He was employed to do a specific job, he was there except for the little old ladies who hidden, the more attractive they become. Paintings by Vera Lungu Barbara A. Cooper was not handed the money to do it on his hog the food. The mood was festive and How quickly parents forget their own scale, he has accomplished wonders and people seemed genuinely happy with the childhood! Open 11-5 Monday, Tuesday, Friday 2 19 S1MONTON / OLD TOWN KEY WEST, FLORIDA 33O4O who cares if not everyone can get along evening, which says much about hosts On January,5 the museum will show scenes are airy an.4 the titles explain the with him; we didn't hire a sycophant or a And By Appointment subjects with humor. On the 5th of January Susan Olesen, Rick Fowler and the East Japanese prints on loan from the prestigious do-gooder. We wanted to put SoMo on the Martello staff and everyone managed to get Clough collection, a rare treat, and on the our exotic English Lady, Patricia map culturally and he is doing it despite 901 White Street • 294-7115 Townsend, will be showing her small and some roast pig. There were many fewer 15th in conjunction with the Annual Literary tremendous odds and factions. The job things in the auction this year but the quality Seminar, "Who Dunnit?" a show of mystery wry oils and on the 19th, Tommy Thomas, needs to get done and the nit-pickers can a New Yorker who does mixed media was infinitely higher. As for the show of book jacket art. constructions, conch houses and store- fronts, will be on view. LANE GALLERY opened last month, Art / Design / Books remodeled and looking very fine indeed, LUCKY STREET GALLERY opened KEY WEST, FLORIDA with a group show featuring several small their season a week later and Roberta watercolors by Alice Terry that I found OUR Marks' new works sparked the evening. 23rd OLD ISLAND DAYS enchanting and one of her larger Her constructions this year involve more "arrangements " ditto, a variety of Vaughn th collage than was her wont and the show Gibsons in ,'j'ferent styles, two of which 5 SEASON was highlighted by a large wanton-pink ART FESTIVAL got sold fcJiwith. Jack Baron entered two abstract of hers. My all-time favorite or three paintings, one featuring a jovial FEBRUARY 27-28, 1988 teddy bear plus a painted sculpture. David painting here in SoMo, a large oil entitled Newt;..-p. is represented by two new abstract LUCKY STREET "Oedipus' Dream," that I have known since Mallory Square oil1" efreshing amongst die conch houses its inception, by Jordan Meinster, reigns 10:00 A.M.-5:30 P.M. serenely over all; beautifully lit, it haunts GALLERY and satisfies. Michael Haykin's portrait in the window is a stunner and there is also his 919 DUVAL ST. / KEY WEST large romantic cemetery view in oils. Bright 294-3973 pastels by Karasic, some small cut-out 3rd ANNUAL ARTS EXPLO '88 CRAFT SHOW CUSTC WOOD & METAL FRAMING O) c JANUARY 30-31, 1988 Complete Line of Whitehead & Greene A- i5ts Materials including: 10:00 A.M. -5:30 P.M. Airbrush / Acrylics ROSE LANE HARRISON'S GALLERY Graphics •ROCKERS & RUGS Silk Screens ANTIQUITIES Tooled leather and wood rocking chairs Watercolors aeg Pre-Columbian Pottery & Gold . Hand woven imported rugs Drafting Supplies Primitive Art from Africa Priced on sale for one month only Noon to ^ P.M. Or By Appointment •LOCAL ART u •MUSICAL ACCESSORIES S24 Rose Lane • 2^4-1 NT i 711 DUVAL ST. 294-6911 "Jusi DIT the 300 Block of Duval" Ben & Helen Harrison 825 White Street 294-0609 Open Monday through Saturday 9 am - 5:30 pm SoJares Hill — January 1988 _^Page 39 Page 38 _ January 1988 __ Solares Hill Mexican watercolors (lots of churches) at and flowers. The most astonishing of the opulence of Fast Buck's. It is like an show must be Ann Labriola's sand emporium of yesteryear, with a sea-going the TENNESSEE WILLIAMS in the sculptures composed of Canadian soil, optic. In December they presented a show beginning of January in the lobby. animal bones, and I did not examine further. of Historic Ships and Boats in watercolors And that brings me to Richard Matson They are quite beautiful, in harmonious by David Harrison Wright, a master of this whose bright acrylic studies of flora and colors and awfully heavy. Will Docherty is media. In addition to S.S. Manhattan fauna around town lead one's eye to showing lightweight pen and ink sketches, churning across an azure sea and the intimate porches in sequestered gardens, fun stuff. Terry Gindele has three very Steamship Lamp ass as leaving Mallory odd corners that most of us miss in passing; brilliant-surfaced abstracts and his one-man Dock, there are smaller craft and some small views that make up the charm of show will be the 3rd of January, one not to lovely views of the Marquesas. A small where we live and that Richard brings into FORUM gem of a show and no wonder that five miss. Judi Wagner's views of local scenes perspective lest we forget or take for Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune will all spend are in waterclor and very pleasant. Fermin paintings were sold opening night. granted, and which were on view at ASTROLOGICAL TRENDS FOR universe is known to give. Essentially, THE NEW YEAR most of 1988 in Capricorn. The strong these lessons revolve around emotional Coronado is displaying small colored Tennessee Williams in the lobby during the earth emphasis favors those who seek prac- etchings and Walter Pole, an English ARISTOS is doing fewer one-man month of December. energies and how to use them in By Sioux Rose tical achievement. The philosophy behind relationships. They also relate to what rela- import, does almost miniature animal and shows this season and presenting the The Monroe County Fine Arts Council individual artists in combination. There are your goals may alter. You may find that tionships ask of us! Many Cancers will nature scenes in watercolor. His last show gave us a Christmas Pops concert by the you must seek deeper for answers that re- in London was a sell-out. All I can find out the landscapes of Michael Shannon, Walt ARIES - March 21 - April 19 begin a three-year cycle of profound change Florida Philharmonic that was a delight. I 1988's forthcoming emphasis on Capricorn veal personal meaning rather than simply during 1988. It is essential to accept soli- about someone named Cricket Barnes is that Desel's small oils, a good representation of can safely say that I could have lived what is called "Chinese Peasant" prints that (your house of professional goals) and paying the bills. Travel, foreign career out- tude as the teacher. It may also be the right she is a niece of friends and reportedly has without Leroy Anderson in Medley, though lets, returning to school for new knowledge platinum hair, I first noticed her work at I prefer to call Chinese Folk Art and which Jupiter moving into Taurus, your money time to cut loose substance dependencies it was remarkably played. It's the kind of house, indicate a year of down-to-earth hard are also favored. and other chemical imbalances that disorder East Martello and it grew on me, as I are all charm, oils by Jason of the simplistic stuff that has to be hoked and must be mentioned last month. She has a highly school and the works of Henri La Chapelle work! Aries who need to change employ- GEMINI - May 21 - June 21 the body's own complex biosphere. Prayer played at Pops concerts. In fact I am sure ment will find this the right year to do so! Relationships and relationship needs were and meditation prove useful now. romantic colored oil at the Lane, a local in varying styles; especially an eerie death's the composer wrote with only that goal in scene, I believe, and we never looked so head that is chilling. Extra money rewards those adventurous tested for Geminis in recent years. Geminis LEO - July 24 - Aug. 23 mind. However, I heard for the first time in Aries natives who move out of old, boring born after June 14 continue with these Fire signs will learn some tough lessons as juicy. On the 17th of January Olivier Catte a generation themusic from Nutcracker and Pascale Margueroz will present their Judi Bradford at the GUILD says she niches and venture forward into new career lessons during summer of 1988. The earth four of the major planets shift into earth has nothing new other than without the grim images of sugar plums and expressions. emphasis this year slows down the constant signs in 1988. Fire loves to burn freely and third SoMo show. This husband-wife team phony wigs and the noble but ever-present often paint on the same canvas, and this busy-keeping-up- with-baby, on view TAURUS - April 20 - May 20 flutterings of the Gemini's bird-like mental earth can put out flame, unless fire learns Fridays. Gary Zimmerman will be on the Barishnikov bounding through tons of This ought to be your best year in many! nature. (Some of my best friends are birds, how to "feed off of the dark substance." year's show promises larger works than last scrim and papief-mache and the music in year's. On the 31st Anne Labriola will be wall-of-the- month with his painted mirrors Jupker, planet of good fortune enters your don't be offended.) Jupiter moves to your The / Ching gives many useful meditations showing her sculptural works; her concepts as will Tony Van Hasselt's watercolors. itself is beguiling; played by this outfit it is own sign (first time iri12 years) in March. solar 12th house and brings a need to clear on this art! Leos: the party is over! It's a are usually outside of the norm and her Chris Adair is showing underwater heaven. It never occured to me that opera up old grievances. There will be a signi- cycle of hard work in front of you. Now work always surprises. Showing with her photography with many dolphins. Reen singer Margaret Pent was up to Mel Torme ficant emphasis in the sign of Capricorn, the that your talents and abilities have received will be William Docherty^^aphics with Stanhouse has started a new series of fans, and Silent Night. Margaret does not sell a house of financial responsibilities. Finan- the green=light of "go ahead," the universe humor. highly decorated and not in iron this time, in song, no gestures, no pepsodent treatment, cial reorganization of priorities and lifestyle has many areas in which you will work hard paper. Cappy Seiler is progressing with but when she sings with her clear and INSIDEG are shown. and express your gifts. Altruistic work is vibrant voice, the song gets sung. Thanks CANCER - June 22 - July 23 ahead; there will also be painstaking atten- To replace the WPA painting of lighting effects in her new acrylics, Ann Irvine has a new oil of the old Custom for a lovely brisk-rhythrned evening. hod

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This can change many aspects of the. on this planet instead of one of those out thinking, I wonder why everyone is so Study Group dealings. old lifestyle. there? Why wasn't I God and He me? upset because I'm perfectly alright. Then it meets PISCES - Feb. 20 - March 20 Nothing seemed to fit together or make any occurred to me that they could not see me. Monday 6:00 pm, Santuary Rest. SCORPIO - Oct. 24 - Nov. 22 The planetary emphasis for 1988 is in your Like Virgo, your sign receives some truly sense. Yet I knew there must be answers to It was like watching a movie, only I was in 530 Simonton Street all these questions. Maybe if I thought long the movie! I began to ask myself how I Wednesday 11:00. am, 1020 Olivia •favor. Jupiter, planet of good fortune, wonderful aspects in 1988. All of the outer moves to your opposite sign and there planets: Pluto, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, enough and reasoned it out, I would start to could be down there on the floor, when I Call Bill Lee- 294-8982 heralds a good year for all manner of and Jupiter will favor your sign for most of get answers. Maybe God and His creation was on the ceiling. Then I began to realize relationships: intimate and business. The 1988! The Capricorn emphasis occurs in were knowable. Maybe someday I would that I had left my physical body. I didn't movement of Saturn and Uranus into Cap- your house of friends and social life. You find out all the answers. know why, but I knew one thing; me, the ricorn (along with Neptune) means that your may well go into new endeavors with Time went by and I began to grow. I did real me, was indeed separate from the all the things little girls do and really physical me. The physical body could not Tin mn//n« /TUDIO powers of understanding, powers of per- friends ~ these may be quite different from AXign &L ReCax suasion and general knowledge improve and anything you've done in the past. Addi- enjoyed my life. I lived two blocks from function if the real me left it. I then became YOUR BODY DESERVES THE QUALITY THAT South Beach. My sister and cousins and I conscious of someone slapping my face. Body/Mind/Spirit HAS MADE OUR WORK SET THE STANDARD cast a near spell over all those with whom tionally, Jupiter moves to your solar 3rd you have communications issues to resolve. house and enables you to benefit through went swimming a lot. I would float on my The next instant I was opening my eyes and SAUNA • JACUZZI AVAILABLE back in the water for a long time, looking up once again I was in my familiar body. WITH APPOINTMENT Many Scorpios grasp deeper meanings in the written and verbal expression of ideas. their own lives and through interaction with at the clear blue sky, watching those fluffy Needless to say I wondered about this for MARRIOTT'S CASA MARINA Suitable endeavors include: teaching, writ- white clouds gently rolling around, not years. I tried to tell my mother and 296-3535, ext. 7785 for appointment the lives of others. (Courses are favored, ing, advertising, sales, and seminars. The too.) caring what was going on down on the grandmother about the experience, but they key is to clearly and creatively visualize earth. I wondered, did God just make the couldn't understand. They told me I was SAGITTARIUS - Nov. 23 • Dec. 22 what you wish to attain: it can really be world, put people and animals on it and then It's good to get Saturn /Uranus out of your dreaming. I knew this was no dream. I DR. JIM GERBRACHT yours. The celestial lights all bless your take off for places unknown and leave us knew it was a genuine experience. Chiropractic Physician sign, but they do regress back in from May path. here to fend for ouselves, not really paying 294-6111 through October 1988. However, planets Life continued as usual. When I was The Natural Way to Health attention to what was happening because He shift to economically sensitive houses of about 30 years old I was in White's Book was too busy creating other worlds? Maybe Store browsing around and I came across a your chart. You'll learn to discern true that's why some people got sick and had Bring this ad for a $5 discount on massage needs from superfluous spending. 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How many times throughout our lives do grandmother sent me to the corner grocery Instructor of • CREATIVE even myself. The experience I had at seven " VISUALIZATION CAPRICORN - Dec. 22 - Jan. 20 we look in the mirror and ask, who am I for some starch. I went running as fast as I No sign is more in the cosmic limelight than really? What am I and who created me? I could. Wben I arrived my heart was was an astral projection. This occurs when • MEMBER pounding and I was completely out of the spirit, which is our true identity, OF A.C.H.E. yours! An unusual grouping of influences can remember asking myself these questions in your sign, beginning in February 1988, as a small child, always wondering where I breath. I stood at the old wooden counter separates itself by projecting out of the body classes Si private sessions will not repeat again for centuries! Nep- came from and how I came into being. I waiting my turn. I began to feel extremely when it feels danger of one sort or another. 296-3252 296-994S The spirit reenters when the body is no tune, the mystic, in slowly opening the eyes remember looking closely at my fingers, weak. I reached out for the counter top, but POINClANA SCHOOL 7 to 8:30 PM of Capricorns to their inner life: dreams, hands and toes and wondering how I had as I tried to hold on I just didn't have the longer in danger or leaves permanently at HEALTH PRACTICES ESP, deja vu, the psychic, the power of the ability to move them. I used to think, strength. Back I went and fainted. As I hit death. prayer and, sometimes, the grip of un- how does my heart know how to beat? the floor I did not lose consciousness, but I joined the Edgar Cayce Foundation for CAROL CHRISTINE, L.M.T.,L.C.H wanted addictions. Saturn, brings the need How did it know how to start beating when instead was wide awake! I had the Research and Enlightenment. I studied all Colonies with Disposables for discipline and a total life review of it first started itself? I also wondered how I sensation of floating on the ceiling. I could the Cayce material. Edgar Cayce was Massage Therapy priorities and direction. Finally Uranus, knew how to breathe without consciously see everything going on beneath me. I saw known as the sleeping prophet. He could Yoga Instruction planet of revolutionary self-will, brings the trying. I recall lying in my bed. I could see my little body with eyes closed lying on the go into an altered state of consciousness and cosmic sword which cuts the "umbilical out of my window because my room was floor. The owner and his wife were "read" people's problems and then diagnose 615-United St. 296-3444 cord" and allows you to function from very small and my bed was positioned rubbing alcohol on my arms and trying to their particular disease and offer treatments. personal truth rather than from the "voices directly under it. I could see up into the pour coffee in my mouth. They were From there I studied every metaphysical SMOOTH OUMHOSEJAGGEDEDGES of the multitudes." Many breakthroughs heavens. The Key West sky was always extremely excited and upset. I was book I could get my hands on. I discovered occur and this will be,an extraordinary clear and bright and sparkly, I would think, metaphysics was nothing new. It's the Book Store period of change lasting about three years! I wonder how many other worlds have Key West Chiropractic Clinip study of life governed and directed by Starting October 3424 Duck Ave. AQUARIUS - Jan. 21 - Feb. 19 people just like us on them? Maybe their thought through definite laws. I began to In a sense, the stellium of planets (Saturn, lives were just the same, exactly like ours, "If you wear out your body, n study Unity teachings. Let's Talk Metaphysics Uranus, Neptune) which will occupy Cap- or maybe they didn't look anything at all where are you going-to live?" Those interested in purchasing material ricorn for most of 1988, represents a very like us. Then I would start scaring myself Complete Chiropractic Structural Realignment on metaphysics should visit the Unity Book Bonnie Tynes Brown Store at 3424 Duck Ave. At The Sanctuary 294-7104 inward focus upon your chart. The earth with those thoughts so I would switch to Dr. Bruce Solomon Dr. Debra Flynn TV Channel 5 : Unity of the Keys 530 Simonton Street 294-4463 L.I.C. # MAQOQ 4392 emphasis hits your solar 12th house of more pleasant ones. Why did God put me : 3401 Flagler Ave. . '.•:• .\:;x Fridays - 6:00 296-5888 : :;;: 296-5626 (24-hourphone): ;j;;": .,;.•;;.(^ Bonnie Tynes Brown hosts a talk show, Solares Hill — January 1988 _ Page 43 women, including delivery of their babies home. She worked for 2 1/2 years in the providing information on aftercare, offering while under supervision. Upon completion maternity unit at Florida Keys Memorial Page 42 __ January 1988 _ Solares Hill of these requirements each student must follow-up visits as needed by the new Let's Talk Metaphysics, Fridays at 6:00 on grab ahold of those things in life that Hospital. family, and continuing care should the need snowball forward and collecting better and pass a state board exam. But in 1984, FS TCI Channel 5, sponsored by Unity of the 467 was amended, limiting the licensure of Gazelle Lange, mother of two who were for hospitalization arise. Upon entering the Keys. better energy and experiences along the both born at home, has worked for 12 years hospital the woman will continue to be cared way, instead of always just letting go. And midwives. Today this means that, though /WVW education continues, only those midwives in South Florida as a childbirth educator and for by the obstetrician CNM, midwife and Editorial since time, though linear, is also cyclic, I was involved actively in preparing the possibly other members of the collective. Wellness Center What else does one write about in a hope that we will learn to celebrate the small j enrolled in midwifery school as of May 1984 are allowed to take the exam. legislation under which midwives are now Additionally, the group offers specialized Massage Therapy & Psychotherapy January editorial but the New Year and its cycles-the day, the hour, the minute-with j licensed. She is soon to receive her license home birth classes to all couples and tailors With Licensed Professionals associated resolutions? Here in the Solares the same reverence we do the New Year. A licensed midwife (LM) may assist from the State of Florida. Beth and Gazelle women who are considered at low risk for them to suit previous birthing experience. Lie. No. MM0001001 Hill office employees spill theirs forth in After all, the opportunity to weed the bad attended the South Florida School of They encourage children to be present with by Appointment, 7 Days dribs and drabs. From one desk comes a and propagate the good is everpresent. I complications during childbirth. Degree of Midwifery together, and have been their parents for slide and video vie wings. guess it's up to us to get to work; Gary Young, LMT vow of no more procrastination: "It's the 'wwwwvwwwwv^^ And their lending library, containing books Maggie Becker, LMT worst of all my sins." This is a salesperson resolutions can be made on any day. covering all aspects of family health and Michael Lackey, LMT talking, an individual whose livelihood This month the "New Age Forum" well-being, is available to all clients as is the Judith McGregor, MS depends self-motivation, the ability to pick feature article "Childbirth at Home--A Fresh IMPORTANT DATES IN HOME BIRTH information network that extends through Mondays up the phone and coax the attentions and Look at Traditional Beginnings" is the state. 6-7 pm - Course in Miracles commitments of others. A thin, well-kempt contributed by Margaret Leslie Jolly, a • 1700s~Childbirth ceases to be the exclusive Reasons families choose home birth are 7-9 pm - Personal Growth Workshop with freelance writer announces that she's "going student at South Florida School of as varied as the families themselves. They Dr. Bill Schlict to watch carefully everything she eats, eat Midwifery. Bonnie Tynes Brown shares her' domain of midwives and women and becomes Tuesdays included in the male-oriented practice of medicine. include: only what is good for her and exclude all thoughts on self-discovery and the search • Comfort - remaining in a familiar 10-11:30 am - Hatha Yoga with unhealthy foods from her diet." Designer for life answers. Astrologer Sioux Rose Roslyn LoPinto • Turn of the Century—Although most are attended environment at a time of great changes 7-8 pm - Iyengar Yoga with jeans hang loosely about her hips and she reveals 1988 trends for all signs of the • Stress reduction agonizes openly over the slices of rumcake zodiac. And as editor, I'd like to take this by doctors, 95% of American women give birth at Carol Christine home. • Freedom of movement Wednesdays she devoured last night. That will be opportunity to thank all the writers who • Continuity of care - knowing that the 7-8:30 pm - Centering Workshop with absolutely the first and last "decadent contributed their time, talent and expertise to • 1940s--Home births decrease to 50%. same people will be attending for the entire Roslyn LoPinto rumcake interaction," as she calls it, she will the "Forum" in 1987, and to encourage birthing allows the family to be more Saturdays indulge in forever, she states, stiff-jawed anybody who feels inclined to put pen to 10-11:30 am - Hatha Yoga with • Mid-1950s--Home births are less than 2%. relaxed and promotes a healthier experience and adament. Quit smoking, cut back on paper to contact me this month or at anytime • Family — the option for siblings to Roslyn LoPinto drinking, wake up earlier, call my mother in the future. Ideas and suggestions, too, New Classes - Coming Soon • Early 1960s~Interest in home birth resurges. participate in the birth instead of having a January - Stress Reduction more often, et cetera, et cetera. With so are always welcome. baby appear mysteriously after mom and many bad habits to stop and unwanted Best wishes for a happy, healthy New February - Infant Massage Workshop • 1979-The Florida State Supreme Court strikes dad's absence Home Birth Preparation Classes characteristics to eliminate, it seems our Year-Ann. • Cost — home delivery is generally one Herbal Immunology hectic little office is one of traditionalists down a 1931 statute regulating midwifery. The Florida Midwives Association is formed. half to one third the cost of a hospital birth, Massage Instruction for Couples (only where resolutions are concerned, of though the decision to choose home birthing course); and that, in this instance, that we, Childbirth at Home should not be based solely on cost like most of society, are categorized by a • 1982-Florida Statue 467 is enacted, allowing for A Fresh Look at trianing and licensure of midwives. But to birth at home involves additional tendency to identify and isolate the responsibility. The mother and family must 530 Simonton Street negatives. Traditional Beginnings 294-7104 • 1984—FS467 is amended, limiting the licensure of be willing and able to maintain good health I hope that with the New Age we will all and vitality and to keep midwives and other learn to focus on the positives, that we will midwives. by Margaret Leslie Jolly health professionals informed as well as being available for Once upon a time all women birthed their prenatal visits and classes. AEROBICS* SCHEDULE children in the comfort of their own homes. risk is determined by the midwife based on practicing as a team since May of 1986. They were attended by midwives — women Support: Midwives Association of Florida "MON TIES' "WED THURS FR'I SAT SUN HRS (Health and Rehabilitative Services) Anga Miller, whose three children were Education: South Florida School of who helped other women through the Rules and Regulations which rate a born at home, worked with a midwifery 9:15 LIAB BDSC LIAB BDSC LIAB LIAB process of giving birth, from gestation to Midwifery woman's general health and reproductive collective in Virginia for four years and has Write to either at address below: 11:15 early child care. Ours was a more family- history. Should complications arise during been assisting in the practice since the oriented society then, and the knowledge of P.O. Box 557342 pregnancy, the midwife is required to refer summer of 1987. Miami, FL 33255 12:15 LIAB/QF LIAB/QF LIAB/QF midwifery was passed from mother to the woman to an MD. The LM is trained to Midge Jolly, mother of one who was daughter. But social and philosophical Support: Midwives Alliance of North 5:15 LIAB BDSC LIAB BDSC LIAB provide thorough care throughout normal born in the hospital with a CNM in America changes rooted in the 1700s rendered home pregnan- cy, labor, birth and afterbirth attendance, is currently a student at the birth uncommon except in rural areas until 6:45 LIAB LIAB LIAB periods. She is also trained to recognize South Florida School of Midwifery and has Suggested reading: recent interest in holistic health re-estab- complications and to transport the mother been assisting Beth and Gazelle since the LIAS - Low Impact Aerobic? with Bodyball lished it as an alternative to hospital birth. Birth by Caterine Milinaire BDSC - Body Sculpting / Low Impact with Weight Training and/or baby safely to the hospital. spring of 1986. As early as the 1960s women's interest Heart & Hands by Elizabeth Davis QF - Quick Fix / Aerobics only, no floor work • Vz hr. Throughout the Keys, Willard J. Morse Birth at home means more than just Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin LIA • Low Impact Aerobics in home birth resurged. It was an urban Jr., MD, Helen Swallow, CNM (Certified delivering a baby in your own bed. movement led by well-educated, middle- Immaculate Deception by Suzanne Arms AT THE REACH $7.00 per class for non-members Nurse of Midwifery) and Beth Rodriguez, Philosophically, Key West midwives' goal The 5 Standards for Safe Childbearing 1435 Simonton Street 296-5000 ext. 686 * All our classes are low-impact with variations as listed class couples motivated to take control of LM of OBG/Midwives offer complete is to provide women and families with their basic health care. But in 1979 the by David Stewart, PhD obstetrical, gynecological and midwifery knowledge that will empower them to Womanly Art of Breastfeeding by La— Florida State Supreme Court struck down a services. For families living in the stretch experience their baby's birth in the manner 1931 statute designed to regulate midwifery, from Big Pine to Key West, the group they wish. To this end, the midwives offer Leche League stating that the law was vague. Simultane- offers home birth care and related services, a variety of service. ously, the Florida Midwives Association - in addition to their family-centered maternity For instance, they make information on Margaret Leslie Jolly is a student at South now known as Midwives Association of care. Families who choose home birth childbirth services available to women in the Florida - was born. The association's Florida School of Midwifery. She and her maintain the same relationship with community. Thier complete prenatal care four-year-old son, Donny, live on Upper goals were to promote education regarding OBG/Midwives as those choosing hospital program includes monitoring the mother and safe home birth alternatives and to introduce Sugarloaf which she says allows her to keep deliveries. In addition to their care with baby's progress, and encourages other her sanity. _ bills legalizing midwifery into the Florida OBG/Midwives, home birth clients receive family members to participate, if desired. legislature. the services of a local women's collective (Children love to listen to the baby's heart- t Then in 1982, in response to the under the auspices of Rodriguez. The beat!) Counseling on nutrition and exercise increased demand for safe alternatives in collective consists of four women, all of and providing emotional support is an AT THE SANCTUARY: Tuesdays Jan 19- childbirth, Florida Statute 467 was enacted. whom are "dedicated to the practice and important component of these prenatal Feb. 2; Feb. 16 & Mar. 1 from 7-9 p.m. A NATURAL BODY & SKINCARE It allowed for the training and licensure of promotion of midwifery and home birth. visits. The group also stresses continuity in group for women only. This is a unique midwives. To be licensed here, a midwife Beth Rodriguez, RN, LM is the mother care by attending deliveries, monitoring opportunity to share and learn from one Tanning & Aloe Products / Makeup & Facial Care must complete a three-year training program of three children, one of whom was born at safety and well-being of mother and child, another. Call: 294-7104. 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Page 44 _ January 1988 _ Solares Hill Solares Hill _ January 1988 Page 45 Solares Hill R STAURANT G IDE Entertainment Key West STEAKS & SEAFOOD A &. B Lobster House 700 Front CONTINENTAL Henry's (Casa Marina) Reynolds St. Wag's Restaurant ...3850 N. Roosevelt Jordon's SOS Duval Gringo's 509 1/2 Duval Angler's Seafood House 3618'N. Roosevelt Billic's 407 Front Bill's Key West Fish Market....25O2 N. Roosevelt Yesterday's 420 Southard La Tcrraza dc Martri 1125 Duval Pancho & Lefty's Southwestern Cafe ....632 Olivia Black Angus 3824 N. Roosevelt Blvd. The Buttery 1208 Simonton Las Palmas 1029 Southard Capt. Bob's Shrimp Dock 2200 N. Roosevelt Callaloo The Reach Louie's Backyard 700 Waddell Crab Shack 90S Caroline Cafe at Louie's 700 Waddell Pier House Restaurant 1 Duval Danny's Fish Market 627 Duval Coconuts 903 Duval Emma's Seafare ..The Reach Dedek's Fogarty House 227 Duval Finally Charles' 91S Duval Dickie's 320 Grlnncll GOOD FOOD AT Half Shell Raw Bar Foot of Margaret Foley Square 218 Duval Islander Restaurant Front & Simonton YESTERDAY'S PRICES! Harbor Lights ...Garrison Bight Marina THE CRAB SHACK 296-6700 The Quay 12 Duval Islander Restaurant Front & Simonton Queen's Table (Santa Maria) 1401 Simonlon Logun's Lobster House 1420 Simonton 908 CAROLINE ST. ThB Seafood Restaurant Yesterday's Restaurant Mangrove Mama's MM20, Sugarloaf Key 294-9658 915 Duval Street "~""™""""~"""""* Reservations MONDAY TO FRIDAY 7AM -3 PM Martha's S. Roosevelt Blvd. (AIA) Across from the historic Turtle Kraals Moondance Cafe 42S Green St. SATURDAY, 8 AM - NOON Perry's Restaurant 3800 N. 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Fresh Fish, CAYO HUESO Dim Sum, Key West's only Pan-Asian Restaurant, offers a Shrimp, Lobster, Stone Crab & World QUAY "Live Entertainment Nightly" Simonton at the Ocean wonderful assortment of oriental delicacies, each freshly Famous Conch Chowder... Sandwich Shop DIXIELAND JAZZ & RHYTHM N" BLUE 294-FISH moderately priced. Open 11 to 11, RESTAURANT & LOUNGE prepared to order in an atmosphere that enhances the BREAKFAST • LUNCH • DINNER • OPEN AIR DINING LANDS END VILLAGE For A Gourmet Experience ® Quick Cafe Cuisine ambiance of this unique eatery. Foot of Margaret Street. / 294-7496 12 DUVAL ST., KEY WEST, FLORIDA e Breakfast Served All Day e Island's Best Cafe Con Leche (305)294-4446 ITALIAN 1 PIZZA Antonio 615 Duval Angelina's Pizza ('til 4 AM) 208 Duval Open 7 AM-8 PM 105 Whitehead St. Aunt Rose's 1900 Flagier Domino's Pizza 3218 Flagier & 922 Truman MM54 MARATHON, FL. Baiamontes 1223 White Pizza Hut 1980 N. Roosevelt MM 102 KEY LARGO, FL. Bubble's Restaurant 619 Duval Fiorini's 523 Eaton La Trattoria 524 Duval ORIENTAL OWL FOOD Lighthouse Cafe 917 Duval Amy's Filipino Cuisine Key Lime Square Little Nicolen1 a 628 Duval Bcnihana S. Roosevelt Blvd (AIA) Top O Spray 3420 N. Roosevelt China Garden West 3324 N. Roosevelt Blvd. Newly renovated historic, fun place STORES, INC Twigs • 722 Duval The Reach for the whole family... great food! 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RAW BAR 1900 Flagier Avenue .'505/294-6214 Camille's 703 1/2 Duval Deli Restaurant Simonton & Truman at Garrison Bight Marina Duval St. Deli 211 Duval on the water near charter boats The Eatery Buffet Restaurant 1405 Duval , FRENCH Full Moon 1202 Simonton Cafe des Artistes 1007 Simonton Native Seafood & Prime Beef Granny's Kitchen 3214 Duck La Cresperie 124 Duval l'epe's Cafe 806 Caroline Gloria's Garden Cafe 618 Duval Overlook **" VM S^NMSi SIHMMMBE the harbor . . . Seethe S. 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FL 33040 Louie's Backyard ('til 1 AM) 700 Waddel expertise. 294-3466 Solares Hill — January 1988 __ Page 47 Page 46 January 1988 Solares Hill Family and Health Services EMERGENCIES •NAVY Improved Pregnancy Outcome 294-1021 Ambulance 296-2401 or 911 Counseling & Assistance LaLeche Foundation 745-2274 Fire 296-2828 or 911 Center 292-2533 LaMaze 294-1068, 294-4218 HELPUNE/Latch Key Family Advocacy 296-2461 MARC House • Detox 743-6551 Program 296-HELP, 294-LINE Navy Alcohol Safety Action Mental Health Care Center 294-5237 Monroe County Health Dept 294-1021 " Alcohol was killing me* Missing Children 1-800-342-0821 Program 292-2555 Poison Control (24 hours) ... 1-800-282-3171 Navy Family Service Center 292-3152 Narcotics Anonymous 296-7999 Police 911 or 294-2511 Navy Relief 292-2196 Nutrition Program 294-1021 Rape Victim Advocacy Ostomy Support Classes 296-8659 Program 294-5531 x4766 DAY CARE Overeaters Anonymous 294-5183 Sheriff 296-2424 See Yellow Pages listing Pregnancy Aid & Counseling 296-7337 And Delphos saved me*" for day nurseries and child care. Op Front/Drug Information .. 1-800-432-8255 EDUCATION Well Baby/Medicaid Clinic 294-1021 Adult Education 294-5212 SOCIAL SERVICES W.I.C. (Women, Infants & Child Find (FDLRS) 296-7541 Big Brothers & Big Sisters 294-9891 Children) 294-1021 The real words of a real patient. "I owe so much to the people who believed- Downtown Center, FKCC 294-8481 Commodity Food Bank 294-8468 Exceptional Student Education 296-7541 Community Control 294-1059 MISCELLANEOUS in me and gave me courage to believe in myself. My wife. My son. The people at Delphos." Florida Keys Community College.. 296-9081 Developmental Services 294-1059 Adoptions 294-9513 Monroe County Schools 296-6523 Domestic Abuse Birth Certificates 294-1021 Delphos is a team of doctors, nurses, counselors and recovery aides who can offer you truly professional care and Parenting Skills Classes 296-5911 Shelter 296-HELP, 294-LINE Family Resource Center, FKMH.... 294-5531 Juvenile Alternative Services Foster Homes: Information & long'term guidance. And even more: the true understanding and compassion that can make all the difference in the world. Program 296-7465 Licensing 294-9513 RECREATION Monroe County Food Bank 294-8468 Legal Services 294-4641 x358 Don't wait. Call 294-5531, ask for Delphos. Talk to a Delphos counselor, there's no obligation — see what the Boy Scouts ..'. 745-3987 Monroe County Social Services .... 294-8468 National Switchboard for City of Key West Recreation Dept... 294-3721 Runaways 1-8Q0-621-4000 first steps might be. 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At the instigation of my editor, this scene of a veritable bacchanalia, with Scrooge will look back upon the past year good cheer in many of its forms flowing with uncustomary gentleness and charity, hither and thither, and the girls romping and highlight a few of the best events and like tipsy seals. Ha Ha!) developments which impacted the scene. Back on stage, Joe Balbontin radiated Let's begin with our major cultural undeniable charisma and Frank Romano institutions. was, well, Frank Romano. The courtship The Tennessee Williams Fine Arts of these two ancient enemies, a "romance" Center, which I've often characterized as which began, apparently, in a canoe in the a black hole that sucks up a fortune in salt ponds, flowered at the Follies. cultural resources annually, surprised me Joe Liska made a perfectly convincing during the last season with two street person. Jack Baron's nimble productions, one of them especially fine dancing was upstaged only by his and the other profound. incredible makeup a.k.a. Howdy Doody. The Native Dancers of Senegal have their act together and it was a pleasure to see the narrative dances of that culture and to have Western sensibilities rattled and mesmerized. A pageant of colorful and often startling costumes provided a constant delight. And I'm glad to say that our nudity ordinance was not enforced during the evening of the performance, so Take a leisurely tour of the home and gardens of that the visiting female forms divine were IF I'VE NEVER BEEN A RUBBER the late Nobel Prize winner, Ernest Hemingway. It was here that Mr. Hemingway wrote For free to sport toplessly with our libidos. stamp for the Festival of Continents, Whom the Bell Tolls, Green Hills of Africa, A neither am I among the camp of "Parvan Farewell to Arms, The Fifth Column, The Snows The other event at TWFAC which o/ Kilimanjaro, and The Macomber Affair. Mr. (Left to right) Joe Ltizka, Carolyn Cash, Frank Romano and Stephen Widup. particularly impressed me was the recent bashers." Allow me to salute Mx. Hemingway was the first important writer to dis- Bakardjiev's drive (ambition is crass cover and make Key West his home. He owned Music for dancing was provided by the had been treated to an outstanding Founders Follies. the home from 1931 to 1961. Members of the Founders Society, the before it succeeds, admirable afterwards), Covers One Acre Including Pool & Guest House direct support group for the Tennessee Ames Trio and many a Founders member performance. Yes, that's right — the Founders Follies! How my respect for director his scope of vision, his high standards. Williams Fine Arts Center, were treated to a graced the dance floor while Santa (Michael As the lights dimmed across the "black And while I'm at it, I do admire the board festive, classy, old style musical sing-along Moye) and a sexy elf (Carol Wesley) Susan Hawkens, already high, soars after tie optional" Founders Society audience this memorable serving of the sweet of the Monroe County Fine Arts Council and Christmas Party. The joyous events delivered Christmas candy to the guests. Thursday night, violins were heard intoning for their solid public support of their were provided by the Miami Chamber An open bar in the front patio was tended by bounty of talent together with the rudest the introductory tune. At the finale, after a dregs of anti-talent. Executive Director in the face of Symphony Orchestra and the Founders Founders Board Member Max McQuillan pleasure cruise through Strauss and other controversy. A good example. Society. and his crew of Founders members Bob It was logical that the tedious (if traditional Christmas melodies, a choral hearty) performances of the amateurs be In the spirit of this article, I'll push on, Leaving the Tennessee Williams Fine Burton, Jerry Bever, Jerry Cash, Ty group comprised of local artists led the Burford, Gil Haas, Carter Vineyard and leavened by some of our best local stage without examination of the (atonal pipe Arts Center, the audience hummed its way audience in song. organ chords sound) "other viewpoints." over to the Key West Woman's Club where Pete Heslin. artists (and I plan to give them the space This and three more promising they deserve elsewhere in the coming Our other theaters were not slack this with the aid of hard working committee Membership committee member Jack performances comprise the Founders members Bob Warren and Dr. Charles Church and his aides Debbie Horan, Jeff year). Yet, magically, the whole year. The irreverent and very endearing "Season;" four performances and parties for exceeded the sum of the parts and, Nunsense, at the Red Barn, was a major Smythe, Peg McClain and Carolyn Cash co- Overby and Roger Braun, offered members members only. The Founders membership chaired, and Key West Aloe sponsored, a the opportunity to participate in this year's therefore, I must declare the Follies to be hit. I wish the Barn people would is limited to 500 and at this writing there are an authentic work of art. resurrect it once a year as a foil to traditional post-performance Founders drawing, which has traditionally offered a still a few memberships available. You are party; this one catered by Uncle Garlin's in prize valued at ten thousand dollars. This The contrast of gold and' brass were "serious" fare - and a sure moneymaker. invited to join the Founders, support the the secret of this success. I would like to I've already expounded at length, and Habana Plaza. The main dining room year the drawing, limited to 200 tickets at Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center and featured a whole pig done in Stephanie and $100 each, will yield ten $1000 prizes and devote a whole column to this process* recently, on the Waterfront Theater's come to the parties. Call Helga Bazo for production of Penny Lane. ITALIAN & FRENCH CUISINE / SEAFOOD SPECIALTIES Mike Montsavatge's conch tradition. Other will provide a substantial portion of the but one graphic case is: Joe Leahy, in OPEN 6-12 MIDNIGHT DAILY / HAPPY HOURS 6-8 membership information at 296-9081. We drag, singing "I Am What I Am," Jan McArt has made a habit of 524 DUVAL OLD TOWN KEY WEST rooms featured bountiful fresh fruits, 1988 Founders donation to the theatre. All would like to meet you! g] chicken wings, Swedish meatballs and a of these Key Westers contributed to a encapsulating a genuine human moment success elsewhere and I suspect that she 294-7863 lovely selection of Christmas cookies. memorable evening for theatre goers who which rose above the trivialized will hang on until she has "conquered" sentiments of La Cage aux Folles contrasted with definitively trivialized INIOVVlPliEW LANDSCAPE moments elsewhere. JACK'S MARINE & DESIGN With such juxtapositions, reality bends & Nursery By Scott D. Wade, FCNP and cracks and the profound is FISHING SUPPLIES Orchids & Supplies apprehended. Ine. Gifts There was also the pleasure of seeing MARINE ELECTRONICS Outdoor Furniture old friends and foes on the stage together. RODS & REELS DIVING GEAR To single out just a few of the former SINGER^ SEWING MACHINES Garden Center BAIT & TACKLE BOAT TRAILER & Genevieve Isaksen groups: Carolyn Cash, a talented singer MARINE HARDWARE RV SUPPLES CUSTOM (and musician); the elegantly gowned and Sales & Service very sincere Shirley Freeman, partnered Mon-Thurs 7 AM - 7 PM MIRRORS by those shamelessly strutting hunks, Fri-Sat 7 AM - 8 PM SCREENS & Fabric — Notions Carter Vineyard and Charles Smythe, in Sun 7 AM - 5 PM SHUTTERS turn sexy and hugable (and don't ask me VISA • MASTERCARD 872-2324 Monday-Saturday 10 AM to 6 PM which was which!); and Max Mcquillin, US-l M.M. 30 1/2 who, not surprisingly, is quick on his BIG PINE KEY MM 31 872-9022 Big Pine Key John Isaksen feet. Betty Williams was charming as a Big Pine Shopping Center 872-2468 lady hobo. Page 50 —January 1988 _ Solares Hill Key West. Witness the ambitious grow. There is something heartening Solares Hill —January 1988 _Page 51 productions of 1987. breaking through the crust of dismay and outrage. Members of the Society have MANY PEOPLE AREN'T AWARE been calling by the hundreds to express that a new cultural resource was "in support for the organization, and new LETTERS TO THE EDITOR gestation" during the past year. It's memberships are burgeoning. creator is Dr. William Schlicht, a I think that when the dust clears people newcomer to -our Keys and an will realize that the current Martello To the Editor: article is self serving. The piece sets up a Ray Pace replies: academic-minded lover of literature. His leadership is not to be blamed for I am writing this letter in response to an number of themes that are critical of PATA upcoming publication, Key West Review, something which, by all indications, article in the current issue of Solares Hill by and of the conditions at City Marina, but will feature prose, poetry, essays and art began years ago during the tenure of an Regarding "The Problem with PATA - Mr. Ray Pace entitled "The Problem with these arguments are then documented by Life Under Hamlin," Peter Anderson was by talents famous and unknown, among earlier administration. The full story of PATA - Life Under Hamlin." In this article us and from elsewhere. extensive quotations from people whose given opportunity for input, and was this will doubtless unravel in the coming Mr. Pace includes five paragraphs of quotes identities have not been revealed. The Dr. Schlicht is quite industrious and months. allowed to express himself on PATA and from Peter Anderson. These quotes are a adoption of such a technique leads this other subjects during that opportunity. His will, I'm sure, make his mark in the realm Mayor Heyman's support of art in fabrication out of whole cloth. Mr. Pace reader to question the factual accuracy of the of literary reviews. From early signs I do public places in highly commendable. three (not five) paragraphs of quotation never interviewed me for this article and allegations. Woodward may have had reflect accurately his ideas and attitudes at not anticipate "earthquakes and The recent anti-proposition editorial in the these words are not mine!!!! I was "Deep Throat," but I wonder how many revolutions" to disturb our conceits. I Citizen raises common sense points which the time of the interview. thoroughly stunned to read this article. Mr. City Marina residents Pace really Regarding Jerry Montgomery's predict that the Key West Review will be need to be addressed. For now, I'm sure Pace asked to interview me for this series on interviewed and how recently the interviews a "high tea" served with conviviality in a that the impulse toward community comments — it is unfortunate that three of PATA and I agreed but he never followed were conducted. the sources in the article felt threatened- comfortably outfitted parlor at Ye Olde enhancement by cultural means is a up on his own request and proceeded to A person with the pseudonym of "Donna Literati Inn. And why not? I wish the positive one. After we've considered the enough to ask for anonymity. Regarding fabricate these quotes and publish them Teller" is alleged to say that she pays $63 electricity for residents at the Bight, it is true enterprise well, and look forward to disasters and triumphs in other cities (that without my knowledge or consent! each month for electricity at City Marina. reviewing the first issue. have embraced the public art idea) we can that residents pay one inclusive dock fee; I have worked for several years to Not so. Electricity is included in the however, a look at a chart provided by Trnrfitionat 74' Schooner Another happy development of 1987 is doubtless find an approach which pleases integrate Houseboat Row in to the greater monthly dockage fee. the tendency of Key West artists to stand many, if not all. PATA includes a breakdown of those fees, CnpncLty 44 Passengers Key West community by working with A person with the pseudonym of "Alan" which includes electricity. U.S. Const Runrct Inspected & Certified up and be heard. They're showing signs I see that my space is used up so of becoming politicized, a terrible PATA and others in an atmosphere of is alleged to say that chunks of concrete In the interview, Chuck Hamlin admits goodbye until next month, when I plan to cooperation and reason to solve our mutual have fallen off the rebar and that electrical that. $110,000 have been allocated in the SaiCnig ~ prospect which is, nevertheless, less skewer a whole herd of sacred cows, m odious than the alternative: remaining problems; not an atmosphere of conduit has grounded the rebar making a current budget for repairs to piers at emotionalism and name calling. Nothing is wet dock dangerous to walk on. Garrison Bight, an indication that those Reef Trips - CnIC for Tn/ormntion victims of the status quo. served by name calling except those who It is my understanding that this condition Artists are getting on the boards of conditions noted are still extant. would further divide and alienate our did exist about a year ago but that it has Regarding "Privatization," it is not Ray Sunset Cruise S to 7 ptn - $20.00 important local organizations. They are community. There are processes and been corrected for months now. The article Available Jor Charter Anytime sending angry letters to their gallery Pace who is quoted as calling for it in the forums for resolving problems and disputes gives the impresion that it is a current article, but members of the City A & B Lobster House Dock proprietors, demanding greater in reasoned and gentlemanly manners, and problem. 'u professionalism and fairness in the Commission. Also, citing the unfriendly 700 Front St. these I have vigorously pursued. We on "Donna Teller" complains of inadequate staff was not my input, but the input of marketplace. They are loudly and Houseboat Row and PATA have come far 15 amp electrical service and continually 296-WOLF persistently speaking out in public places, three of the four sources used. in resolving these problems in this new blowing fuses. I know people with full Calling the article "self serving" is true before the media. In short, they're mad atmosphere of cooperation, not confront- sized refrigerators, two 110V AC air as hell and aren't going to take it any only in the sense that Ray Pace is one of the ation, and all these efforts are undermined conditioners, TV, and microwaves who 75 on the "list" at Garrison Bight and, of more. This, doubtlessly, surprises certain by such totally irresponsible journalism at never blow a fuse. I wonder how current JOAN'S people. Good. You haven't seen course, would like to move up like the 74 Mr. Pace's. The disservice continues, how- the alleged "Teller" interview was. others that PATA says are on that "list." anything yet. ever, in that there are things I would have I have been in the Keys since 1969 and LAUNDERETTE If I had an award to present to a welcomed the opportunity to discuss in such have observed the development of our city. {formerly Lynn's Launderette) particular artist for his or her participation a public forum as Solares Hill concerning When Pace calls for the privatization of the Y 517 Truman Avenue in community causes in the last year it PATA and Mr. Hamlin. Unfortunately, marina, I am concerned. I have seen Key would go to Craig Biondi. He has been these thoughts and ideas were not included West "privatize" a lot of real estate and a lot V (opposite Halfred Motel) particularly visible serving on the Art & Between Simonton & Duval in this article and will have to be held until of projects and in no instance that I am Historical board, and on the Cultural another opportunity to air my views is aware of have we received what we Call 294-0913 Affairs Commission. Craig not only presented. expected in return. Usually, we have been attends meetings — he works. This quiet, screwed. New State of the Art intelligent man has done more for the M0 I think that those at PATA and others have worked with me long enough to know Finally, I want to respond to Pace's Equipment community than many local millionaires I characterization of our dockmaster and his can name. And — yes — I will! They that name calling and emotional confronta- LOtllSlGi tion are not my manner or style in solving staff as unfriendly "Lifestyle Police." My Full Laundry Services are... own experience with the staff at the No, another day. problems and will discount these lies in my LET'S GO COUNTRY name so that we may continue our work Garrison Bight City Marina is that they are Commercial - Personal Given the focus of this column it may friendly, courteous, quick to respond seem inappropriate to mention that 1987 together in an atmosphere of fairness and The only country music cooperation to solve our differences and whenever there is a problem, and has been the Year of Embezzlements for professional in every way. And yes, I don't SAME DAY Key West. Real Estate chieftains are club in Key West!! mutual problems and move on together in good faith. mind — to use Pace's words — "hanging out fleeing the island with bags of money and bullshitting with them." DROP OFF SERVICE under their arms, and even the Art & LIVE MUSIC by TOP COUNTRY BAWDS Mon. -Sat. 8:00am-6:00 pm To qualify my remarks, I have never met Historical Society has suffered the scandal TUESDAY - SATURDAY^ ATLANTIC BUILDERS of allegedly light fingers among the staff. Ed ... We extend an invitation to Peter Mr. Hamlin nor am I either for or against PATA. I tend to agree with Thomas Complete Pressing Facilities Last month I mentioned the good works Open 9 am till ftlon. S«t) Anderson to write down his ideas on PATA Specializing in Kitchen and Houseboat Row for us in our February lefferson that a little revolution now and Uniforms, Shirts, Linens, etc. taking place at Martello under executive •. '"•:; ;; Noon till&fa?$^-;:fr and Bath Remodels director Susan Olsen and with chairperson issue. then is a good thing. I am more of a middle We Build Beautiful Floors Spotting on Request Richard Fowler, and the majority of their aged hippy than a polyester defender of the status quo. I am sure PATA could and and We Do board. The triumph of recent upgraded ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• No More Ring Around The Collar exhibits and events has abruptly been should be criticized on a number of issues. Floor Sanding tainted by a trusted employee being I know Ray Pace and respect his work. I Call for Free Estimate it's hard to believe, but on an average of two Charged with embezzlements. just thought that this was a lousy article and wash loads a week, you will actually save five To the Editor: wish that it had been checked out more whole days a year of lost time by using our Happily, there's a silver lining to the As a liveaboard resident at City Manna Robert W. Svetlik cloud. thoroughly. DROP OFF SERVICE! on Garrison Bight, I want to respond to Ray Sincerely, Licensed Contractor The recent uproar is unfortunate, but it Pace's article in the December Solares Hill Jerry B. Montgomery OLD FASHIONED CARE! has also provided an opportunity for the ("The Problem With PATA - Life Under Dolphin Pier 817 Simonton St. 294-2726 organization to test its fortitude and to Hamlin). City Marina From a journalistic point of new, the Page 52 — January 1988 _ Solares Hill " Solares Hill — January 1988 — Page 53 KEY WEST POETS Sf i|ou think software is a form of lingerie.,. On Sunday, January 24 at 4:00 pm at the Waterfront Playhouse, a very special OIRF 28IH SEASON event will take place. A show called a Tribute to Key West Poets will be performed. This is a look back at some of The 28th Annual House and Garden shawls. The ladies would wear them and (Feb. 26 & 27, from 10 am to 4 pm): 719 the famous poets who have lived and still Tours sponsored by the Old Island say, "I'm going red shawling," whenever Fleming Street, owned by Capt. and Mrs. reside in Key West. Readings, impro- Restoration Foundation have been they visited friends. 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Parvan Bakardjiev, Artistic Director WGWEMBBR Wednesday Nov. 18: Founders' Follies Thursday Feb. 18: Opening Night Founders' Night, 8:00 p.m, Music Man 7:30 p.m. Thursday Nov. 19: Founder's Follies, 8:00 p.m. Founders' Night Friday, Nov. 20: Eder String Quartet, 8:00 p.m. Saturday Feb. 20: Music Man, 8:00 p.m, Sunday Feb. 21, Music Man, 2:00 p.m. Saturday Feb. 27: Music Man, 8:00 p.m. Sunday Feb. 28: Music Man, 2:00 p.m. Wednesday Dec. 2: National Dance Company of Senegal 8:00 p.m (Festival of the Continents) Thursday Dec. 10: Christmas Concert with the MARCH Horace O'Bryant Middle School, 7:30 p.m. Thursday Mar. 17: Opening Night Saturday, Dec. 12: Ivan Davis, 8:00 p.m. Chorus Line 7:30 p.m, (Festival of the Continents) Founders Night Thursday Dec. 17: Holiday Pops Concert, 7:30 p.m., Saturday Mar. 19: Chorus Line, 8:00 p.m. Founder's Night Sunday Mar. 20: Chorus Line, 2:00 p.m. Sunday Dec. 27: A Classical Piano Recital Saturday Mar. 26: Chorus Line, 8:00 p.m, with David Williams, 8:00 p.m. Sunday Mar. 27: Chrous Line, 8:00 p.m. JANUARY APRIL Wednesday Jan. 6: An Evening of Jazz Saturday Apr. 2: Stabat Mater, 8:00 p.m, with James Gibson, 8:00 p.m. Saturday Apr. 16: Opening Night Thursday Jan. 7: Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats Garden District 8:00 p.m. & Magicians, 8:00 p.m., (Festival of Continents) (Festival of the Continents) Saturday Jan. 9: Ballet Florida's Romeo & Juliet, Sunday Apr. 17: Garden District, 2:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Saturday Apr. 23: Garden District, 8:00 p.m. Thursday Jan. 14: Key West Literary Seminar Sunday Apr. 24: Garden District 2:00 p.m. Friday Jan 15.: Literary Seminar (con't) Saturday Apr. 30: Garden District, 8:00 p.m, Saturday Jan. 16: Literary Seminar {con't) Nathen Page Quartet, 8:00 p.m. Thursday Jan. 21: Founders' Night Coppelia MAY 7:30 p.m. Saturday May 14: Opening Night Thursday Jan. 21: Tampa Ballet's Coppelia, The Magic Flute 8:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. (Festival of the Continents) Friday Jan. 22: Coppelia, 8:00 p.m. Saturday May 21: The Magic Flute, 8:00 p.m. Saturday Jan. 23: Coppelia, 8:00 p.m. Saturday May 28: The Magic Flute, 8:00 p.m. INFORMATION About Founders' Society, call Helga Bazo at 296-9081. Tickets and reservations call 294-6232.