KEY WEST


Meaning of KEY WEST in English

the last island and town of the Florida Keys . It is the most southern US town and is closer to Havana, Cuba, than to Miami . Ernest Hemingway and John James Audubon lived there, and President Truman had a ‘summer White House’ on Key West for holidays. People who live there are called ‘conchs’ after the local shellfish. Many artists and homosexuals live there.

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