Key West Art & Historical Society’s newly-renovated permanent exhibit, “Overseas to the Keys: Henry Flagler’s Overseas Railway” debuted on Friday evening, May 26, 2017, with a special opening event on the second floor of the Custom House Museum. Pictured here are KWAHS Director of Education, Adele Williams; Board member Todd Feit; Curator Cori Convertito, Ph.D.; Executive Director, Michael Gieda; and Board members Michael Shields, Anne Layton-Rice and Ben Harrison.
Florence Nebbout films Boca Raton resident Georgia Risk Burlen, and her son Bruce Burlen, Friday evening at the opening event for Key West Art & Historical Society’s newly-renovated permanent exhibit, “Overseas to the Keys: Henry Flagler’s Overseas Railway.” The 90 year-old Risk Burlen is granddaughter of George Risk, a Glasgow, Scotland, civil engineer who worked on Flagler’s railway.
Juniper Behrendt, Executive Director for the Key West Art Center, and Patrick Deja, Operations Manager for Harry S. Truman Little White House, read about Henry Flagler’s steamship enterprises at Friday evenings opening of Key West Art & Historical Society’s newly-renovated permanent exhibit, “Overseas to the Keys: Henry Flagler’s Overseas Railway.”
Gracie, a 9 year-old Maltese, enjoyed a free ride with her human, Diana Cannone of Long Island, New York, who took in Friday evenings opening of Key West Art & Historical Society’s newly-renovated permanent exhibit, “Overseas to the Keys: Henry Flagler’s Overseas Railway” with friend Barbara Hudgins of Key West.
