Category: Friends News
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Become One of Our Valued Sponsors!
Interested in helping us to support the Key West Library? Please click here for a list of current opportunities and financial levels. Why support the Friends? It is the mission of the Friends, a volunteer-based organization, to support the Key West Library, a critical resource for the citizens of Key West. We pride ourselves on prudent stewardship and…
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Jimmy Buffett Thanks the Key West Library
On the death of Jimmy Buffett, Key West experienced an outpouring of grief unlike anywhere else in the country. To a large extent Buffett made our island paradise what it is today. Friends of the Library Board Member Annette Holmstrom found a letter from Buffett in the archives of the remarkable Florida Keys History Center.…
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Popular Palm Garden Book Sales to Resume December 2
The Friends of the Key West Library will conduct the first book sale of the season on Saturday, December 2, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Palm Garden at 700 Fleming Street. For a list of future book sales, click here. New donations have replenished our inventory, so grab your tote bag and…
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Membership Drive Held in October
The Friends of the Key West Library conducted a membership drive from October 16 to October 19 in the library. Friends were available to explain the benefits of membership, answer any additional inquiries, and accept new and renewal memberships. The new 2023-2024 trifold brochures were available to distribute and were very popular. The trifolds included…
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Girls Night Out, July Edition
Each month a local business hosts Key West Girls Night Out, an event which benefits a different charity each time and is organized by Sue Puskedra with her team at Susie’s Estate Sales. In July the event benefited The Friends of the Key West Library and was pure bliss! Hosts Bliss Jewelers provided a beautiful bracelet…
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At the Library – November 2023
by Kim Rinaldi, Senior Branch Manager Welcome back, Friends! This season is off to a great start at the Key West Library with loads of fun and engaging events. We kick it off on Thursday, November 2, at 10 a.m., in celebration of Dia de los Muertos. Florida Keys History Center Historian Dr. Corey Malcom will…
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Revered Monroe County Historian Emeritus Tom Hambright Dies
Service to be held on November 4 Our own Florida Keys Historian Tom Hambright, who died on October 14 at the age of 85, started getting interested in history at his grandmother’s knee while he was still a toddler. His grandmother cared for him while his parents worked 12-hour days during WWII in the cotton mills…