TSie highest M point in Key West FREE VOL. XI, NO. 6 KEY WEST, FL JUNE, 1983 to change what they perceived as wrong - especially the war raging in Viet Nam. While many of them used Girls, since after blast-off the Boys FROM TIIE ECJITOR had to be kept occupied so that The Birkenstock seal drugs, they directed their energies toward anti-war work and helping one the only 13~year-old who knew how another. Believe me, it was a time to drive could pilot her craft The Birken- HELLO. • : when a lot of beautiful things BY COLIN JAMESON safely. stock family happened. But the characters in "Hair" has been MEMBERS OF THE "Save the Pier" to me were mainly stoned out and inter- THE KIDS WERE crazy about making shoes committee wanted me to advise our ested in free love, doing "their own political position with four Wilhelmina and her talent. They SOME ROOTS since 1774. reader? that although funds for the thing," and shocking the squares. major credits: considered the automotive age a For 200 years, a tradi- restoration of the pier have gone into big improvement over bikes and . (ion of foot knowledge has the Monroe County Public Works budget NOW REALLY, I admit that I may be IN THE YEAR 1830 a minor revolution 1) By birth Wilhelmina, who' skates, particularly on marl-topped been passed down from for next year, it does not mean that carries the given name of one roads. So many of them would climb father to son. The seal sym- overreacting to this show because I had took place in France. Though its principal there will be money for it. Writing a local effect was the swapping of one king of her great grandmother's aboard, perhaps 15, sometimes more, bolizes the Birkenstock budget and getting a budget approved heard of it for so long and expected promise to make only pro- for another, there were echoes among the sisters, is a third that the driver's mother wondered are two separate things and, unfor- something so different. I really generation Conch. how she could see out. ducts beneficial to the foot. thought that the higher values of this many German states that still maintained Only after a sandal has tunately, the County is pretty broke. a varying degree of independence from the For this reason public participation period would be expressed. I guess passed the final of many that I felt that a lot of the charac- Great Powers. inspections is the seal ap- is very important because it raises ters in "Hair" were jerks. Mind you, plied. It is a promise of the chances of receiving grant money. IN THE TINY grand duchy of Saxe-Weimar uncompromised quality. The mqssage, therefore: keep involved this is not a criticism of the cast who did a splendid job, but it is a criti- things remained relatively serene. Until because there is no guarantee that the recently/ the ruler, had been Charles money 'for this project will be forth- cism of the characters whom they had to portray. Augustus, hero of the Napoleonic wars, coming from the County. patron of famous writers Goethe and NOW THAT I'VE had my ramble and Schiller, defender of popular rights The Children's Pages will not grumble, permit me to unabashedly against the reactionary encroachments run while the schools are on vacation. praise the lovely production of the of Austria, Prussia and Russia. Key West Dance Theatre at the Water- ^ THOUGH I was involved in the front Playhouse this past month. What IN A TIME of upheaval, nevertheless, "hippie" era as something of a parti- splendid dancing; what splendid chore- distant pastures appear greener. Thus cipant, I never saw nor heard the famed ography; what splendid costuming; what it came about that in 1832 a Saxe-Weimar musical "Hair." So when it came to splendid lighting; what splendid music family named Munson, mother and six the Tennessee Williams Fine Arts provided by the group Kopavi. Penny young children, set forth on the Theater I went. Please let me say at Mollot, a member of the dance group, tedious and sometimes hazardous the outset that it was a wonderful, said that they didn't want their voyage to the New World. According inventive production, with a talented production to appear as a recital , but to the most widely accepted story, cast doing a splendid job - a big show as a production of a serious, pro- Mrs. Munson had relatives or friends The natural step. that fas very well done all around. fessional dance company. I think that in Mobile, Alabama, who were ready to I had one major disappointment 'f how- they succeeded handsomely in doing start her in a new life. We don'I; ever. I thought that the "message" of just that. know what happened to Munson, the this uusical was trite and dreary. father, but death, or perhaps desertion, None o\f the characters was appealing THE SEVENTH CONCH Challenge Swim, must have sparked this small migration. (indeeii, most of the language from the premier distance swimming event of ...footprints them wps totally self-centered), the the Keys, will be held on July 4th. THE ALABAMA FRIENDS waited in vain; use of\ four-letter words was childish- Open to all who would hazard the 12h the Munsons never arrived. After many 505 Southard Street ly brazen and sought only to shock, miles of rain, wind, sea, tide and days at sea, their ship was transiting A beaming Wilhelmina greets President Harm S. Truman on his arrival Key West the hedonistic involvement with drugs currents to circle Key West. The the Florida Straits when it piled up on in Key West did nothing to explain why some: people, record, incidentally, is 4.hours , one of the unmarked reefs. Wreckers 2) Her ancestry stems from BUT APPARENTLY SHE did. In the rightly 'or wrongly, felt so strongly 49.minutes, and 4 seconds. For infor- from Key West raced each other to the one of the more enlightened years of Model-T'ing, Wilhelmina got about $hem, and all of this dross, mation: call Michael Brandt from 10 to scene. Among them-—or, some say, a small states in a reaction- involved in only one small accident. for my'mbney, effectively hid the' 4 at 294-1254 or 294-8122, or write passenger on the wrecked vessel ary period of world history. merit of. the anti-war statements. Michael at P.O. Box 681, Key West. itself—was one George Carey, thought WILHELMINA DOES NOT explain why Basically what came across to me was to have been an Englishman by birth. 3) Next to last, and not she did not teach her friends to drive, a selfish grout) of young speed freaks continued on page 30 The Munsons arrived safely in Key West, the least, she has devoted but the answer seems superfluous. It ducking* "the draft so they could stay instead of Mobile, and in Key,West most of her life to an is also true that driving a car is hiqh. OUR COVER ARTIST this time they stayed. extraordinary variety of complicated, compared to guiding a is Wendy Waterline. She is the public service jobs and horse, or a bike, or a pair of skates. TO\ ME, THIS was a period of great creator of Conchflash and is a graphic THE VESSEL THAT was wrecked is affiliations. You chirruped at a horse and it spiritual awakening. So many of the artist working at the Solares Hill sometimes referred to as "The Ship started. You yanked on the reins and young hippies I met were beautifu'l Design Group at the corner of Simonton of Brides," since not only the 4) Last, and bottom line, he stopped. people who cared profoundly abou'% what and Eaton Streets. Munson daughters, but their mother she got elected. was happening in the world and sought found husbands in Key West. But EVEN A MODEL-T was much more 1 matrimony was not the purpose of WHAT STARTED WILHELMINA? complex. in that early epoch it might I the trip; indeed Augusta Munson not even have an emergency brake. After i (perhaps named after the popular Grand WILHELMINA HARVEY IS what you might a Boy cranked it, it would inexorably Duke Charles Augustus), with whom call a self-starter. Her automatic creep up on him, threatening to nail we are chiefly concerned, appears him to a fence if the driver didn't Scu»L UOUJT on>w\ THIS 1 starting equipment was operating long HOUR Our mailing addres.3: to have been only four years old when before its Detroit cousin became' general handle the throttle and the spark control Service/ rescued. (both on the steering wheel) just so. SMKRVnON issue on your run-of-production-line 513 Fleming Street gas buggy. In 1925, when Wilhelmina To keep from getting nervous, the radii was 13, the full-option Model-T was the driver tried to forget that she was EXPERT TYPING & EDITING SERVICE Rm.3 IN 1835 HANNA MUNSON, the mother, married John S. Page from Providence. only Ford that boasted such a frill. sitting on top of the gas tank, the i Key West, Florida i 33040 Daughter Augusta was wed to her The family's "tin lizzie" did not. level of which she had just measured WE TYPE ANYTHING rescuer, George Carey, in 1842, when with a ruler. HERE IS $15.00 FOR MY she was 14. Augusta was the great TO CRANK UP her automobile in XEROX COPIES SUBSCRIPTION TO 11 Phone numbers are grandmother of our first woman those days, it was desirable for a ISSUE OP SOLARES County Commissioner, Wilhelmina young lady to keep a few Boys under THERE WAS AN advantage over the TEMPORARY HELP HIliL.