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  [Betty Brothers’ Books] I too stayed at Brothers Motel on Little Torch Key with my family in the late 1960s. We were poor but dad saved and for 3-6 years every vacation would be on Little Torch. The dolphins, Dal and Suwa, which we religiously fed twice a day and could not start back home till after their first feed, gave my sister and I an unprompted boat ride in their pool which we hadn’t told our parents about. We thought we were going out to sea and were very shakily happy to get back to their dock. We got her book: Ra-Oo And The Porpoise which she illustrated and dedicated it to my sister, my brother and I. Brothers Motel, The Bottle-Nosed Dolphin which she dedicated to me was written and illustrated by Betty. Are there other books by her? I truly miss her and her little piece of heaven that she let us share. |
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 [Dead] Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84. Link |
| [The Ultimate Payback] A 96-year-old woman’s wit unleashed on her bank for bouncing her check when she had money to cover it. Link |
 [Donate Food] Do any of you know where on Big Pine Key I can donate some can goods to a food bank other than St Peter’s? The Methodist Church used to have one, but it’s never open. |
| [Close-ups] Extreme close-ups bring ‘hidden science’ to life. New photography book encourages us to look for science everywhere. Link |
 Great pumpkin growers face off for world gourd domination. There’s a surprisingly competitive global race on to grow a 3,000-pound pumpkin. Link |
| [November Blood Drives] Blood Donor gifts in November are either a Power Bank Charger (Nov. 1-15th) or One Blood Donor Sweatshirt (Nov. 16-30th) plus an eGift Card/Publix Card depending on the drive location. Thank you to those who donate lifesaving blood. Link |
 [Cheap Bastards] My granddaughter had quite the haul for Halloween, except for one Grinch who gave out mayonnaise. |
| Wag The Dog movie (full movie 1997). Should be required viewing! Great movie in every way. This is how it’s done. Video |
 [Quill Pen] “I will trim a pen for you,” he said. Sitting at his master’s table, he took a quill stripped to its barb and out the end with his small knife. Then with his blade, he shaped the pen’s nib, scooping out each side but leaving a good point, which he out flat and scored so that the ink would run down the middle.How to make a feather quill pen. Video |
| This mosquito death trap is all-natural and very deadly. Never underestimate the power of fungi. It can turn ants into “zombies,” help fictional plumbers grow, and even look like creepy fingers. One newly engineered strain of fungus uses the power of smell to kill Earth’s deadliest animal—mosquitoes. Link |
 The world’s largest plane will transport wind turbines blades and fighter jets. When completed, the WindRunner will stretch the length of a football field. Link |
| Climate change made Hurricane Melissa four times more likely, study suggests. Unusually warm ocean temperatures fueled one of the worst hurricanes ever. New research finds climate change increased the storm’s likelihood. Melissa missed Florida. We may not be so lucky next time. Link |
 [Truck Office] First thing I did was walk over to the machine shop to look for my F-150. The oil stain was there but the truck wasn’t. It wasn’t in the rock lot where the bulldozers parked either.Who would have stooped so low as to co-opt that piece of shit? It had no heat and no air-conditioning. The radio bubbled static. Door handles were missing. Floorboards, fenders, and frame all rusted and rotted. It certainly hadn’t been what could be called roadworthy. And, my God, the smell. I went into the machine shop. One of the welders lifted his hood and told me the bad news—they’d had to move the truck for a rebar delivery and the engine on that old thing finally blew, so the truck got dragged to the scrapyard. Link |
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 [The Art of Atari] Atari is one of the most recognized names in the world. Since its formation in 1972, the company pioneered hundreds of iconic titles including Asteroids, Centipede and Missile Command. Link |
| Life and death on India’s toxic trash mountains. Video |
 Fake money that was made for movie productions is circulating throughout the Florida Keys, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. The $100 bills look real at first glance, but they are marked as fake and say they are only meant for use in making motion pictures, according to sheriff’s office spokesman Adam Lindhard. Most of the counterfeit cash is turning up in the Lower Keys and Key West, Linhardt said. The Key West Police Department recently issued a similar warning about fake $20 bills finding their way to the Southernmost City. Link |
| [Audio Editor] Tenacity is an easy-to-use, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder for Windows, Linux, and other operating systems and is developed by a group of volunteers as open-source software—meaning it’s free. Link |
 [Soaking Behemoth] The Mack Super Pumper was a locomotive-engined fire fighter that could extinguish hell itself (and often did). In the early 1960s the New York City Fire Department was facing a host of problems. The world around them was growing ever taller, ever more compact, and ever more dangerous with respect to fire. There were times when the very infrastructure that was supposed to be supplying them the water to extinguish a blaze simply stopped flowing, there were other times that the equipment they had proved to be woefully insufficient to stop a fire that should have been controlled, resulting in massive blazes that ate up homes, businesses, lives, and millions upon millions of dollars. Link |
| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 11/4/25 at 8:48 am. |