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Sunday, January 22, 2006; Page P08
EXCELLENT PIECE on the Florida Keys [Jan. 15]. I've been traveling to the Upper Keys to my family's winter home (at Mile Marker 87.5, bayside) for more than 20 years, and you did a good job capturing what to do, where to eat and where to stay. In any followup pieces, you should consider the following places as well:
· Cheap eats: Senor Frijoles, Mile Marker 104, Key Largo (bayside). I've been going there since the mid-1980s for good, casual Mexican dining, on the water, sunsets included. And Islamorada Restaurant & Bakery, Mile Marker 82 (bayside) has the best breakfast and baked goods in the Upper Keys.
· Fine dining: Pierre's, Mile Marker 82 (bayside), is next to the Morada Bay that you included. Top-notch cooking in an elegant environment -- comparable to our four-star restaurants here.
· Lodging: Azul del Mar, Mile Marker 104, Key Largo (bayside), is a new boutique hotel that opened in 2004.
We'll be taking your articles with us when we head down in March this year.
Kirsten L. Nathanson
Washington
HEMINGWAY had a home in Key West, but so did John James Audubon and, most significantly, President Harry Truman.
The Audubon house is a handsomely preserved home where he stayed when he was on the island painting. It has fine gardens and impressive displays of his bird prints, as well as the attractive house.
The Harry S Truman Little White House is a national landmark, largely furnished as it was when HST was a regular winter visitor. In addition to playing poker (his table is there), many of the important actions taken by him were drafted there as well. Of interest to Washingtonians is a presentation of the recording of the DAR concert given by his daughter, Margaret, and not well received by our local critic, Paul Hume.
Tom Bower
Washington
