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One of our most famous icons, as the name would suggest, is the key lime. This small, tart fruit packs a puckery punch, yet has still managed to win over our collective hearts and minds. Many would say this is largely thanks to the pure magic that results when mixing this sour little lime with any amount of sugar...Enter, Key Lime Pie.

October in Key West is relentlessly colorful - and this without even one leafed tree participating in the season. Technically, we don’t “do fall” in the Keys. Not in the traditional sense anyway. But what we lack in leaf color, we make up for in our celebratory traditions.

Despite its small size, Key West holds many points of significance for the United States. One in particular is, “The Southernmost Point in the Continental U.S.A.”

As seen by the sizeable marker erected on this “southernmost” point (or close to it anyway, I explain later) it’s a title that we hold with equally sizable pride here in Key West.

The story of how this giant buoy-shaped hunk of cement came to be however, is rather fitting I think, of a festive and vibrant place like Key West.