Sea Shanties At Florida's Egmont Key

From the November Tampa (Fla.) Observer News  "Discover the Island's fundraiser at Egmont Key features Sea Shanties" by Carl Mario Nuda.

Egmont Key is located at the mouth of Tampa Bay.  On November 11 the annual Discover the Island event will take place with the group Sea Shanties to perform.

A lighthouse was built on the northern end of the island in 1858 and is still maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard.

The two-mile long island was a Union Navy station during the Civil War as part of the blockade of the Confederacy.

In the Spanish-American War there was a hospital for quarantine site for returning troops with Yellow Fever.

--Old B-R'er