Cabbage Key

Writer/Producer: Chelle Koster Walton

In the 1930s, Mary Roberts Rinehart, an important mystery novelist of the era and a visitor at Useppa Islands Izaak Walton Club, bought the nearby 100-acre island of Cabbage Key as a wedding present for her son. Just across the channel from Useppa, Cabbage Keys historic inn also perches on an Indian shell mound, but there the similarities end. Cabbage Key Inn, built by Rinehart, is all about simplicity and ease with its six simple inn rooms, six cottages, and a beer-guzzling, truth-stretching attitude of fun. Whats there to do on Cabbage Key besides eat, drink, fish, sleep, repeat? Not much -- and thats how islanders and guests love it.

Resources:

Cabbage Key Inn, www.cabbagekey.com

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Cabbage Key
• Mary Roberts Rinehart
• southwest florida
• WGCU
• PBS