On a recent visit to Key West,Florida, it struck me more than ever that if you look a little more closely past the likes of Sloppy Joe’s, Ernest Hemingway’s house, the marina, and the buskers and sunset-gawkers of Mallory Square, you’ll realize that Cuba and its expatriates have shaped the local architecture and culture to a tremendous degree. Miami might lay claim to “Little Havana” thanks to the massive influx of Cubans that started in the 1960s, but down here the island’s Hispanic heritage starts with its very name: “Key West” is an anglicization of the Spanish Cayo Hueso, meaning... 

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