KEYS WOMAN: THE ONES WHO SHOWED ME HOW TO NAVIGATE THE KEYS

KEYS WOMAN: THE ONES WHO SHOWED ME HOW TO NAVIGATE THE KEYS

By Nancy Klingener I was a 23-year-old newspaper reporter when I moved to the Keys in 1991. I didn’t know much about the place except that it was pretty close to Cuba and its biggest city had elected a beloved barkeeper as its mayor. As a fairly recent English major, my approach to learning about the Keys was through reading. Most of the books were by and about guys — Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Russell Banks, Carl Hiaasen, Tom McGuane…