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A literary stop for the Key West story behind Williams's plays.
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Overseas Highway Tour Guide
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The Tennessee Williams Museum is a focused museum about the playwright’s work and the more than three decades he lived in Key West. It suits readers and theater fans who want to connect his plays with the place that shaped part of his life.
Williams first visited Key West in 1941, established residence there in 1949, and bought a home on Duncan Street in 1950. He lived on the island for 34 years. The Society believes he wrote the final draft of A Streetcar Named Desire while staying at La Concha Hotel in 1947; that story links one of his best-known plays to a specific Key West address.
The former gallery brought together photographs, first editions, press material and video, along with a typewriter Williams used in Key West and a scale model of his Duncan Street home. The Society says its expanded museum will tell that story on a larger scale; the final display list for the new gallery has not been published.
The museum began as a temporary exhibition for Williams’s 100th birthday in 2011 and became a permanent attraction run by the Key West Art & Historical Society. Its collection has connected his career, including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, to the years he made Key West home.
Wildlife
18 sightingsCrocodileMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
255 sightingsAlligatorMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
55 sightingsManateeMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
70 sightingsCommon Bottlenose DolphinMost seen around 9 AMSighting map
51 sightingsBald EagleMost seen around 8 AMSighting map
1,120 sightingsKey DeerMost seen around 6 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Overseas Highway. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
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