“Wind Across The Everglades” At The Custom House Museum On Thursday

Thursday, March 3 at 6pm, “Wind Across the Everglades” – the 1958 film credited with sparking musician Jimmy Buffet’s love of the Florida Keys – will be screened in the Helmerich Research & Learning Center on the third floor of the Custom House Museum, 281 Front Street.

Described as “an offbeat eco-drama” ahead of its time, the story is set in early 20th century Florida and follows a conservationist game warden employed by the Audubon Society as he seeks to stop a band of bird poachers operating afoul of the law, whose profits come from selling plumage for ladies hats – a popular fashion of the times, responsible for decimating bird colonies.

Directed by Nicholas Ray (also director of “Rebel Without a Cause”) with screenwriting by Budd Schulbert (of “On the Waterfront” fame) and starring Christopher Plummer, Burl Ives, Gypsy Rose Lee, Peter Falk and Emmett Kelly, the film was loosely based on the life of Guy Bradly, an early game warden shot and killed by Everglades plume hunters in 1905. “Wind Across the Everglades” was selected by KWAHS film series host Michael Shields to compliment last week’s Distinguished Speaker Series presentation by Dan Burkhardt, author of “Florida Bay Forever.”

Doors open at 5:45. Admission for Key West Art & Historical Society members is $5; $10 for non-members, and may be reserved at http://www.kwahs.org/learn/art-as-history-history-as-art-film-series/

For more information, contact Adele Williams, Education Specialist, at 305-295-6616, ext. 115. Your Museums. Your Community.  It Takes an Island.

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