EVENT IS SOLD OUT FOR IN PERSON ATTENDANCE. YOU MAY CALL TO BE PUT ON A WAITING LIST. IF YOU REGISTER VIRTUAL AND TRY AND USE THIS TICKET AT THE DOOR, YOU WILL BE TURNED AWAY, OR HAVE TO WAIT TO SEE IF THERE IS ROOM TO ATTEND. 

Join us for our Fall Lecture Season featuring (now 5) distinctive lectures on "Smuggling in the Florida Keys"

The Florida Keys History and Discovery Foundation is excited to announce tickets are available for the fall lecture series, “Smuggling in the Florida Keys,” as part of our annual season of thirteen lectures each year.

Enjoy first-hand accounts about Smuggling in the Florida Keys featuring some of those who lived through these trying times, telling it like it was...as it did happen here in the Florida Keys. FKHDC brings you these historic moments in our history, sharing true stories from those involved.

Each of the four (now 5) lectures start at 6:00 pm featuring guests from both sides of the law, the state prosecutor, and several book writers that encapsulated the stories of the trials and tribulations. Doors open at 5:00 pm with light appetizers and cash bar.

LECTURE DATES AND SPECIAL GUESTS:

10/12: Part 1 features Ricou DeShaw and Richard Russell, Board Chairman of FKHDF, sponsored by Bob and Patty Lodge. Tickets available for Part 1: https://buytickets.at/floridakeyshistorydiscoverycenter/769060

10/26: Part 2 features FWC Retired Mike Long; MSO Sheriff Rick Ramsay; FWC David Dipre; and MSO Captain Don Hiller who have been involved with detaining and capturing many of the smugglers over the past forty years, and still going on today. Tickets available for Part 2: https://buytickets.at/floridakeyshistorydiscoverycenter/769084

11/09: Part 3 features three popular book writers: Domingo Soto, author of The Trials of Dickie Lynn; Lynn Walker, author of Midnight Calling: A Memoir of a Drug Smuggler's Daughter; and M. Dennis Taylor, author of Smuggler's Times: Smuggling in the Days of Marijuana Prohibition. Tickets available for Part 3: https://buytickets.at/floridakeyshistorydiscoverycenter/769085

12/07: Part 4 features Allison DeFoor, the state prosecutor for many of those incarcerated. Lecture sponsored by The Southern Group. Tickets available for Part 4: https://buytickets.at/floridakeyshistorydiscoverycenter/769086

12/14: Part 5 features Richard “Dickie” Lynn, who served over thirty years in federal custody and was subsequently granted compassionate release by a Federal Judge in 2021. Tickets available for Part 5: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/floridakeyshistorydiscoverycenter/788235

Attend in person or participate virtually!

Seats are allocated until capacity is reached or until registration for in-person attendance closes on Monday prior at 5 p.m. If capacity is reached you will be able to join a waitlist. Registration for virtual participants can be made up until noon the day of the lecture. Sponsorship opportunities for lectures still available, contact FKHDF at 305-922-2237.

Free for members. When registering, at the top of the page, click the link “Do you have an access code?” Enter case sensitive access code provided to members in lecture mailer and emails to display free member tickets. Become a member and attend the entire thirteen lectures from now through next spring free by joining today at www.keysdiscovery.com/membership.

Non-members: In person, $10; Virtual only, $5.