A visit to Long Key State Park in the Florida Keys often means kayaking through the mangrove tunnels and hiking the nature trails.
What few people know is that the park is also home to a rare cactus barren. For some, it’s a surprise that cacti can thrive in this humid, tropical paradise.
An ecological community that supports a variety of plants and wildlife, the Keys cactus barren occurs in scattered patches along a few of the shorelines in the Florida Keys. A cactus barren is located on the bayside of Long Key State Park and is one of the few locations where the jumping cactus (
Shreve Memorial celebrates National Library Week
Samantha Bonnette
Shreve Memorial Library encourages all community members to visit the library’s website to explore and access virtual services and programs during National Library Week April 4 through April 10. Shreve Memorial Library offers a wide array of online resources that are available from the comfort of home, including Hoopla, OverDrive, CreativeBug, LinkedIn Learning, and Flipster, as well as convenient reference help, curbside pickup service, diverse collections, and free computer use and Wi-Fi at the library.
April 4-10 is National Library Week, a time to highlight the essential role libraries, librarians and library workers play in transforming lives and strengthening communities. The theme for this year’ National Library Week is “Welcome to Your Library,” which promotes the idea that libraries extend far beyond the four walls of a building and that everyone is welcome to use their services. Whether people vi
who built florida, a big oil tycoon. he was the guy who says we should drain the swamp, the everglades, that this is going to be we can turn this place into paradise. they said that social security and bug stray and air-conditioning changed florida, but it was really big infrastructure projects, dams and dikes and bridges, like the original overseas railroad, which they built through the great depression, through three hurricanes. they finally completed this thing. but in 1935, it was taken out by the great labor day hurricane. it just shows that if a bridge goes down, it may not come back. that s what they worry about, chris. two things to remember. one, you re right and all that infrastructure is now getting old and a lot of it hasn t been updated. that s going to be part of the story. the second thing is one of the immutable laws of storms. water always wins.
so this is once in a lifetime kind of event for the people down here. there s the time line again as we plug into the mainland f that goes down, who knows how long that will take. one hurricane ended the overseas railroad. they re worried about infrastructure here. this is one of the many harbors, a boating community. your boat is your home in many cases. we mentioned people who decided to stay near their boats and ride it in and out stone shelters like this. at some point it s up to fate whether you or your boat