End of the Line: Last Train to Paradise
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Books & Books’ Mitchell Kaplan interviews Les Standiford
- The old Bahia Honda bridge was built over Flagler’s Railroad, which was sometimes called “Flagler’s Folly” because it was such a crazy idea at the time. /Alicia Zuckerman
The actual end of the line in Florida is Key West, of course. And for about 23 years in the early 20th century, a railroad could get you there. It was Henry Flagler’s dream - it was referred to as “Flagler’s Folly” -because it seemed like such a crazy idea. Today, those railroad tracks stop mid-way, just hanging in the air above the ocean. We asked Mitchell Kaplan, owner of the bookstore Books & Books to interview author Les Standiford , whose history of the railroad is called Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean.
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Tags: books, End of the Line, history, interview, Keys, Les Standiford, Mitchell Kaplan, railroad, transportation
Sat, Mar 7, 2009
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