About Bone Island

Bone Island is a literal translation of Key West’s original name in Spanish, Cayo Hueso (mistranslated into Key West, although it is the westernmost of the inhabited Keys). It was more commonly translated as Isle of Bones. Bone Island came into modern usage in the early ’90s when my husband, Mark Hedden, and former Solares Hill editor Ann Boese started a company called Bone Island Press. They published a great newspaper, the Bone Island Sun. Since then many other businesses have used the name Bone Island. If you don’t believe me that Mark and Ann were first, please point to a business pre-1992 that used the Bone Island name. Today Mark owns Bone Island Bird Expeditions. Ann is a writer and publishing consultant in Savannah.