Panel to reflect on Key West’s Covid-19 lockdown in recognition of 5-year anniversary

​In recognition of the 5th anniversary of the Keys COVID-19 lockdown, on Thursday, March 27 at 6:00pm at the Tropic Cinema, 416 Eaton St., a group of photographers, journalists and filmmakers will form a panel to discuss and reflect on the COVID-19 Spring of 2020, defined as running from March 1, when Florida’s first COVID-19 cases were announced, to June 1, the day after the upper Keys quarantine checkpoint was dismantled. Sponsored by the Monroe County Library, and titled “Five Years Later: Looking Back at Key West’s Covid Lockdown,” scheduled panelists are Chris Sloan, producer of the short-film documentary, “Key West: 66 Days of Paradise Interrupted,” and “Isolated Island – The Key West COVID-19 Spring of 2020” book creators and contributors Roberta DePiero, Corey Malcom, Rob O’Neal, Andy Newman, and Carol Tedesco. Keys Weekly editor Mandy Miles will moderate. Admission is free; seating is limited and on a first come, first served basis. For more information contact Michael Nelson, Monroe County Assistant Director of Libraries at [email protected].