Florida Spectacular
Take a weekly trip across Florida with authors Cathy Salustri and Rick Kilby and discover a side of Florida you never knew existed. From the scallops in Panhandle bays to the Hemingway cats in Key West, every week's a Florida adventure.
Florida Spectacular
Florida Keys Spectacular Episode 13: Stock Island: Old Key West, Dead Bodies, and... Cows?
Send us your Florida questions!
If it's Old Key West you want, stop short of Key West on your drive down US 1 and explore Stock Island. Brad and Cathy talk about the island's cow-centric and crime-adjacent history, what's worth doing now, and where you can meet an ostrich.
Links We Mentioned
Bone Island Mambo by Tom Corcoran
A Sketch of the History of Key West, Florida (Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series) by Walter C. Maloney
Lucy Burdette's Key West food critic murder mysteries
Brad Bertelli books — Cathy says get the Florida Keys Skunk Ape Files book!
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