Hoping to escape labor issues, Vicente Martinez Ybor became the first Key West cigarmaker to move his operations to Tampa. ...more

August 31, 2008

It was just before sunrise when the folks from the woodland town of Palmhaven began arriving at Clearwater Creek for a weekend of country fun. The annual Palmhaven Creekside Holiday was finally under way as the campground area under the oak trees and cabbage palms was filling up with tents of every size and shape. Some lean-to's were being constructed while campers and old Airstreams were rolled into place and everyone busied themselves with setting up and settling in for an extended stay. With no hurricanes approaching and the early summer swarms of mosquitoes subsided, Mayor Ormond Hoosegow declared this weekend the official start of the town's jubilee and no one was left out or behind. ...more

September 2, 2007