Richard M. McGarry

With this book, Richard McGarry has taken a treasure of Key West history - the World War I waterfront passes that now are preserved at the Monroe County Public Library's Florida Keys History Center - and made them into art, while also expanding on the stories they tell. The passes themselves, including high-quality photos of everyone from a vice consul to stevedores, are haunting artifacts of that time in Key West. With his paintings and also the stories from that time period, McGarry illuminates the humanity of those people from a century ago and expands our understanding of this endlessly alluring rock at the end of the road.… (mehr)