Cathy Salustri loves Florida. The New York Times featured her 2016 travel narrative retracing Florida's WPA-era driving tours, Backroads of Paradise. She has an MLA in Florida Studies. Her work's appeared in Flamingo, Campendium, Tampa Bay Times, and Creative Loafing. She's worked at Walt Disney World, an aerial banner towing company, as a kayak guide, sailboat crew, and stage manager. She and her husband Barry live in Gulfport; they own a hyperlocal weekly, The Gabber Newspaper.

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Brad Bertelli is a Florida Keys historian, author, speaker, and Honorary Conch. He moved to the island chain after earning his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Miami in 2001, and has called Islamorada’s Plantation Key home ever since.

Brad has studied the often-surprising history of the Florida Keys for two decades, and shares his vast knowledge in his The Keys Weekly newspaper column, books, his popular lectures, and the Facebook group, Florida Keys History with Brad Bertelli.

Brad joins Cathy twice a month for premium episodes available to subscribers focused exclusively on the Florida Keys.

Orlando-based writer and graphic designer Rick Kilby wrote Florida’s Healing Waters: Gilded Age Mineral Springs, Seaside Resorts, and Health Spas (University Press of Florida, 2020), which received the silver medal for Florida nonfiction from the Florida Book Awards and the Florida Historical Society’s Stetson Kennedy Award. His first book, Finding the Fountain of Youth: Ponce de León and Florida's Magical Waters (University Press of Florida, 2013), won a Florida Book Award in the Visual Arts category.

Get either – or both! – titles at RickKilby.com, and make sure to bookmark Old Florida with Rick Kilby and read through the archives.

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