Indian Key – An attractive presence

The collectors (part 2)

2020.06.30

DISPLACED to Key West from the home of his boyhood, far from the old centers of culture, power, learning and earning, William A. Whitehead soon found that his new locale itself possessed a particular magnetism. An ideal site for scientific exploration both on its own and adjacent shores, the island attracted an array of “naturalists … More The collectors (part 2)

Talk not to me of doctors

2018.05.31

IT was called a Golgotha for unsuspecting mariners. A land of disease and death. A distant, dismal necropolis. Key West’s early years saw many felled by sickness and entombed in its soil. Sent there to enforce the nation’s sovereignty and protect commerce, American soldiers and sailors were the main vectors of disease, and made up … More Talk not to me of doctors

An attractive presence

The world of William A. Whitehead

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The collectors (part 2)

Talk not to me of doctors