Conch centennial
La Concha (Key West)
GETAWAYS • Key West
In an early scene in the only novel Ernest Hemingway set in the US, his tragic hero Harry Morgan approaches Key West at night by sea and describes the scenery: “Then we came to the edge of the stream and the water quit being blue and was light and greenish and inside I could see the stakes on the Eastern and the Western Dry Rocks and the wireless masts at Key West and the La Concha hotel up high out of all the low houses…”