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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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Voting Rights
12:00 pm
Mon November 12, 2012

Supreme Court To Reconsider Minority Protection In Voting Rights Act

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The U.S. Supreme Court announced it will take another look at a law protecting minority voting rights.
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The Supreme Court says its going to review whether Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. Section 5 requires that certain states and counties receive federal pre-clearance of laws that could potentially impact minority voting rights.

The Hill reports, 

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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. 

Final Voter Registration Numbers Out Next Week
6:00 am
Thu October 11, 2012

Absentee Ballots In High Demand In Palm Beach County

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The general election is November 6.
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Voter registration ended on Tuesday, and elections supervisors are busy preparing for next month’s vote.

They say thousands of registrations have come in just this month, and the final numbers will come in next week once the state is done certifying all of the voter registration forms that came in at the deadline.

Monroe County Supervisor of Elections Harry Sawyer says he’s expecting a big increase.

“Even before we get the final numbers in, we’re still ahead of 2008," said Sawyer.

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