{"id":13423,"date":"2016-07-08T20:22:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T20:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=13423"},"modified":"2016-07-09T20:33:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T20:33:02","slug":"island-superstition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/island-superstition\/","title":{"rendered":"Island Superstition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Life and Island Times Jul 8 2016 – Island Superstition<\/p>\n

This one is from 2012.<\/p>\n

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This island is a peculiar place \u2013 chock full of boozers, bikers, bozos, bimbos, and a few believers. Some are creative types bent on reinventing themselves and the island \u2013 as often as on a daily basis. What follows is an assemblage of recent photos from around the island that testify to the unseen voodoo cocktail that is Key West.<\/p>\n

But before you see them, Marlow admits that the last ten days of this past October were different. There were strange sounds and sights that provoked in Marlow feelings of superstition.<\/p>\n

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\nRisqu\u00e9 carved pumpkins at a local gay bed and breakfast<\/p>\n

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\nMarlow and the W at Plaid Night party during Fantasy Fest 2012<\/p>\n

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\nOne very Scary Night full moon<\/p>\n

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\nHalloween week road warning sign<\/p>\n

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\nUnnamed Conch holding forth at Blossoms Caf\u00e9<\/p>\n

with a complete stranger from the mainland<\/p>\n

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\nWorst excuse ever for a handicap parking spot sticker (I saw the wild eyed, whackjob haired<\/p>\n

rider. He had no limp and may have been riding about with a snootful around 2 PM one midweek<\/p>\n

day, when he parked his Harley and spent more than five minutes to affix his Handicap placard.)<\/p>\n

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\nWyland\u2019s repainted mural on the walls of the old Waterfront Market. The<\/p>\n

previous Wyland mural had been a very dark take on man\u2019s impact of our reef.<\/p>\n

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\nSchooner Wharf Bar\u2019s tribute to the boomer<\/p>\n

generation\u2019s high water mark during the 60s \u2013 WharfStock<\/p>\n

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\nA surprising and unsettling photo of a blue metal
\nmesh picnic bench during October 2012\u2019s full moon<\/p>\n

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\nA bizarre, abandoned chair in Lazy Dog Lane just down from Schooner Wharf Bar<\/p>\n

It might have been superstition but some kind of something was going on down here during the late days of this past October. Some say what Marlow heard, saw, and felt was part of an old time tradition when Conches, slaves and sailors went out to play on fall nights on the long ago wooden planks of the Mallory docks.<\/p>\n

Stephen Mallory\u2019s piers were the largest public spaces on the island back then. Sailors and slaves were commonly given Sundays off from their work. They were allowed to gather on the docks to drink Cuban rum and dance to Caribbean music. Some oral histories say that the beat of the native drums and wail of gourd banjoes pierced the Sabbath night salt air. <\/p>\n

Old timers in Bahama Village say that you can still hear it in the distance. It is said that old Conches up the Keys who live out in the mangroves say a prayer when they sense it in the darkness. <\/p>\n

Marlow\u2019s old island ears and eyes were not misbelieving what they heard and saw here and could not turn away. It was all mojo in motion. Newbie islanders and ancient ghosts were dancing in a trance with the snake.<\/p>\n

It might be silly superstition . . . but when Marlow hears it again in the night, he\u2019s gonna say a prayer because he respects tradition.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2016 From My Isle Seat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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