 At the extreme corner of the United States, a new 100-mile highway connects 25 islands from the Florida coast to Key West. Susie Zuzek, a Key West treasure. Archival film clips are shown along with close-ups of colorful paintings and hand-printed fabric featuring fish, flowers, vines, and birds. Leanne Martin-Hooten, artist, Key West hand-print fabrics. Susie was incredible. Her work had so much integrity in it. Intricate designs of animals and flowers pack artworks. Retired sales manager Robert J. McKenzie. She was brilliant. Absolutely brilliant in her understanding of art. And she had a knack for conveying amusing things with her design. And a pink floral pattern features smiling cheetahs. Retired seamstress Yolanda Maloney. She had a very loose, very, you know, she could do a couple of lines. She could do a figure. And that's always, it's so free, you know. Other prints are shown. She was one heck of an artist. Dogs, fish, and golf balls. Silver-haired wearing a plaid shirt and spectacles, light-skinned Susie Zuzek works in a studio. Between 1962 and 1985, textile designer Susie Zuzek created over 1,500 designs for Key West hand-print fabrics. Daughters Catherine and Martha Dupu. She was born on a farm in upstate New York. Susie smiles in monochrome photos. Her father and her siblings would give her little scraps of paper. She spent a lot of time in the kitchen drawing. She wanted to draw from an early age. She grew up, and it was World War II, and she joined the military with her sister. She rides in an open jeep and gathers preserves in a military uniform. After the war was over, she had been in the army, and they had the GI Bill, and so she went to Pratt. She had roommates, and one was from Key West. I had been an old friend of my dad's, and he came. He was a merchant marine, and he stopped in New York and came to see his friend and met my mom. You know, they hit it off. Eventually, they drove down to Key West, and they got a little house. With two babies? By then, there were two babies. More photos are shown. She immediately was recognized as a very gifted artist. Key West hand-print fabrics needed a textile designer. Here was my mother. Not only did she know textiles, she was here. When Susie came into business, that was a godsend, Mary Parsons. She shifted from one kind of pattern to the next kind of pattern. Right behind her or beside her, she had books, and she would pull them out and look, and then just from sight, she would draw with her ink pen. It was amazing. Caracatures of suns and white birds fly in blue. Lavender llamas and flowers surrounded by white space. Dozens of pelicans are drawn in black, white, and orange. Video footage of a pelican flying in the sky. Key West of the 1960s was a really interesting place to be. There was a huge military contingency down here, so it was really ripe for businesses to open. Key West Historical Society curator Dr. Corey Convertito. Key West hand-print was started very early for a lot of Key West businesses. Jimmy Russell and Peter Pell, who were both from New York and had worked in theater, came down to visit. June Clossing. They came down to Key West and fell in love with it. Retired retail manager. And decided that they were going to open up this shop. At that time, they were in a place called Harbor House over on Front Street. It was an old brick-building kind of New Orleans style with black, wrought iron. And that's where they had their first little shop. And I believe that was in 62. And with the connection of Lily Pulitzer and Handprint and the orders that she was putting in, they needed to expand. The light-skinned woman with dark hair and a bun holds a mannequin. Key West Handprint became one of the major global brands for Key West. Newspaper with multiple images and a headline. Florida's Key Unlocked Store to Sunny Print Fabrics. With Lily's idea, Peter's coloring and Susie. That was the trio that made it successful. Two men work at long tables lined with fabric. We had a window in the back of the store. And you could look through it to the printers. You could see them printing. So to visit the store was a delight. Women shop in archival photos. Everybody loved Key West Handprint Fabrics. It was one of Key West's main attractions. It was part of the colors and the atmosphere of Key West. Every woman can wear it. In archival footage, Jackie Kennedy wears a vibrant floral summer dress. There's nothing angry in the prints. There's nothing glaring or anything. It's just happy. She was constantly, constantly creating. I just thought everybody's mother did that. For me as a daughter who always appreciated her art, I thought she made beautiful things. And I'm so glad that's not lost and I'm so grateful.