18 May 5/20/2023 Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden: Speaker Series
Speaker John Bratton, professor of anthropology at University of West Florida, presents a program titled “Hope and Resolve” about the garden’s Cuban Chug exhibit, a collection of homemade migrant boats telling a visual story of desperate migrants seeking freedom. He will also discuss artifact conservation and maritime archaeology tracking the decades of relations between the Florida Keys and Cuba, and the Cubans who helped build Key West over the past 200 years. The talk begins at 1 p.m. at the