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Topical Currents
1:00 pm
Thu May 23, 2013

Third Largest Barrier Reef In The World

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Brad Bertelli
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Snorkeling the Florida Keys
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Bogart Film Festival
8:00 am
Sun April 21, 2013

Play it Again, Steve - Humphrey Bogart's Son Launches 1st Annual Bogart Film Festival

Humphrery Bogart as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. The 1st Annual Humphrey Bogart Film Festival runs May 2 -5 in Key Largo.
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Naples resident Stephen Bogart is the son of film legends Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall and will be hosting the 1st Annual Humphrey Bogart Film Festival in, quite appropriately, Key Largo May 2 - 5.  Caroline Breder-Watts sat down with Stephen to discuss the festival and his iconic parents.  To learn more, visit bogartfilmfestival.com.

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South Florida Arts Beat
1:00 pm
Fri April 19, 2013

Record Store Day, Bass Museum, Dranoff Piano Competition, Keys Calendar & Chef Norman Van Aken

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Bass Museum
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Dranoff Piano
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Chef Norman Van Aken
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New Documentary Airing This Week
2:00 pm
Mon February 18, 2013

Stories From The Overseas Highway: Q&A With Filmmaker Tim Long

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Airing on WLRN Channel 17 on the following dates and times:

Friday, February 22 @ 11:30 pm

Saturday, February 23 @ 4:00 pm
Sunday, February 24 @ 9 pm
Wednesday, February 27 @ 7:30 pm

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Community Contributor
8:02 am
Tue January 29, 2013

Motorcycles And Miami Don't Always Mix, But Then There's The 360-Degree Views

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Andrews says the attention needed on a motorcycle helps him reset after the workday.
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Perhaps you’ve seen the phrase “Live to Ride—Ride to Live” on a T-shirt or bumper sticker somewhere. It has been on my belt buckle for about 30 years. Motorcycling has been a passion of mine pretty much from the day I got my driver’s license. The activity of being in the wind, leaning into corners, the sight of a bike, and the very simplistic nature of the machine, all bring joy.

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Preserving Florida's Past
6:30 am
Thu December 27, 2012

Troubled Bridge Over Water: Why A Key Part Of Keys' History Is In Danger

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People from Marathon and around the world go to the Old Seven Mile Bridge to exercise or enjoy the sunset.
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Volunteers for Friends of Old Seven collect signatures at the head of the bridge to build support for the bridge’s restoration.
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Dennis Fernandez of FDOT flips through some of the original blueprints of the bridge.
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100-year-old design plans for the original Seven Mile Bridge.
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Dennis Fernandez points with his pen to a picture of the damaged superstructure of the bridge.
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Before he retired, Cross worked at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. restoring old airplanes. Now, he works to preserve the Old Seven Mile Bridge.
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On the left is the end of the 2.2 mile section of the bridge that is still open to pedestrians. FDOT cut the bridge to keep people off the section to the right. You can see the new seven mile bridge in the background.
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Riet Steinmetz gives tours of Pigeon Key Museum which can only be accessed by ferry and by the bridge.
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Friends of Old Seven sees the bridge as a way to bring in tourism and bolster the middle keys’ economy.
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  • The Old Seven bridge may crumble without support.

When the Old Seven Mile Bridge was built, it was an engineering wonder of the early 1900s. Part of Henry Flagler’s famous railway to Key West, it ran across nearly seven miles of open water to connect Marathon to the Lower Keys.

Today, the bridge is still a popular spot with both locals and tourists, but it’s slowly falling apart. Salt water and storms are eroding the bridge faster than the state can afford to repair it. Much of it is now closed. Historians and activists are desperately searching for a way to preserve what's left: a 2.2 mile section of the Old Seven Bridge that is still open to pedestrians and cyclists.

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The Florida Roundup
6:00 am
Fri November 30, 2012

Climate Change Signs Abound, Locals Say

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Climate Change? James' walking trail in the Keys is frequently flooded these days.
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With its low-level waterfront communities, South Florida is particularly vulnerable to climate change. 

But perhaps no area is more vulnerable than the Florida Keys.

James from Cudjoe Key tells us that a nature trail he has walked for 10 years is now regularly flooded, even at low tide.  Here is a photo he sent us:

While much has been written about the danger to South Florida caused by rising water levels, Pamela from Miami points out that Miami should pay attention to its air:   

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Lobster Woman
6:36 am
Tue November 27, 2012

How One Woman Lives At Sea: Inside The Life Of A Florida Keys Lobster Catcher

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Fresh caught lobsters!
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Kelly's father, Gary Nichols Jr.
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Bourne with a Crab.
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Lobster crates
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Crew mate Corey Callaham.
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Kelly with husband, Brian Bourne.
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  • Patricia's Sagastume explores the world of Lobster catching through one woman's eyes.

It’s past sunset as 28-year old Captain Kelly Nichols Bourne and her crew return from a day of hauling lobsters traps. When she joined her father’s business a decade ago, she was the youngest female commercial captain in the Keys. She still is. Now she and her father drop about 7,600 lobster and 8,000 crab traps from the Gulf to the Atlantic.

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Florida Keys History
2:23 pm
Thu November 8, 2012

Take A Tour Of Pigeon Key

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Riet Steinmetz is working to preserve both the Old Seven Mile Bridge and Pigeon Key.
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Pigeon Key is a small, five acre island that housed up to 400 workers at a time. There was very little to do on Pigeon Key except work. Riet says workers didn't learn until they arrived that alcohol was not allowed.
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After walking 2 miles over the Old Seven Mile Bridge, you take this ramp down onto Pigeon Key. There are 8 historic buildings on the key, one of which you can stay in.
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Riet is walking down the dirt road that the workers call Main Street. Many of the workers came from New York City and named the small alleys on the key after the streets they knew in NYC. There was also a Broadway and 41st Street.
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This is a leaf from a pitch apple tree, also called the signature tree. Riet says people used to plant these trees by their front doors so visitors could etch their name or a message into the leaves.
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This is just one of the buildings that workers lived in.
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Buddy is Pigeon Key's resident cat. No one knows how Buddy got there.
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Originally there were four barracks like this one, each housing 64 men. The floors are made of original Dade County Pine. The building is now used as a classroom for marine science camps.
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On the right is the Old Seven Mile Bridge which is now closed to cars. On the left is the new Seven Mile Bridge.
Mr. Ducky is Pigeon Key's resident duck. It's also unknown how he got there. If you're wondering, Mr. Ducky and Buddy the cat get along just fine.
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One of the historical buildings on the Key. This one now functions as the museum building.
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Inside the museum are old photos, artifacts and diagrams explaining how the bridge was constructed.
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This is an old photo of the island when it was a work camp.
Visitors are allowed to stay and vacation in one of the historic houses on Pigeon Key.
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There's even a hammock- definitely a keys style museum.
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Earlier this week we brought to you a story about a community organization trying to restore the Old Seven Mile Bridge.

Part of that story touched on Pigeon Key, where the work camp for the men who built the Old Seven Mile Bridge lived 100 years ago.  The entire island is now a museum.

Take a tour of historic Pigeon Key with Riet Steinmetz through these photos above.