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Article: Kansas' Key West a December hot spot
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- The Topeka Capital-Journal
- Article date:
- December 9, 2001
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Story and photograph by Matt Moline
Special to The Capital-Journal
KEY WEST --- Another Key West Christmas season: balmy breezes,
blue skies and poinsettias blooming in the local cemetery.
Forget the fact that the Gulf of Mexico is 1,000 miles to the
south.
This Key West is located on the Kansas prairie, a downhome Coffey
County township with a subtropical name.
Nevertheless, the Kansas Key Westers have basked in a seemingly
endless round of late fall warm weather, an unusual December
meteorological phenomenon usually reserved for places like Florida's