The Key West Maritime Historical Society’s monthly meeting in February will feature attorney David Paul Horan, discussing salvage law, the Atocha case and others.
Horan will discuss how salvage law has changed in the last 35 years and relate the history of the salvage litigation in which he successfully defended the Mel Fisher Treasure Salvors against the state of Florida and others over the treasure recovered from the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha. He will also talk about other salvage cases such as that of Titanic, El Cazador and Odyssey …
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The Key West Maritime Historical Society’s monthly meeting in February will feature attorney David Paul Horan, discussing salvage law, the Atocha case and others.
Horan will discuss how salvage law has changed in the last 35 years and relate the history of the salvage litigation in which he successfully defended the Mel Fisher Treasure Salvors against the state of Florida and others over the treasure recovered from the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha. He will also talk about other salvage cases such as that of Titanic, El Cazador and Odyssey …
This year, One Island One Book is offering a special opportunity — a guided tour of Flagler’s Speedway to Sunshine, the special Over-Sea Railroad Centennial exhibit at the Key West Museum of Art & History at the Custom House.
The Custom House exhibit features a re-created Florida East Coast railcar, a replica of a section of the Seven Mile Bridge, vintage footage of the journey from the Middle Keys to Key West and a film recounting Flagler’s story and the arrival of the first train. Artifacts include a railroad worker’s tool …
For the Key West Library’s third One Island One Book program, we’re reading Last Train to Paradise by Les Standiford — the perfect book for 2012, the Centennial of the Over-Sea Railroad.
Standiford will speak at the library on Feb. 27 — but we’re hoping our patrons and other community members will be already taking part well ahead of that in our first online readalong. That will start Jan. 22 — the actual centennial day of Henry Flagler riding the first train into Key West.
What is an online readalong? It’s basically …
The final film in February’s Saturday Film Festival of classic foreign films is The Descreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie ).
In this 1972 movie, several bourgeois friends planning to get together for dinner experience a succession of highly unusual occurrences that interfere with their expected dining enjoyment.
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