The saga of Miss May Johnson, a 20-year-old schoolteacher whose 1896-97 diary entries captivated readers for two years in The Key West Citizen, has come to an end with Thursdayâs Today in Keys History entry.
The journal entries, compiling the day-to-day experiences of the young Key West woman, were transcribed by Mary Heffenreffer and provided by Tom Hambright, historian of the Monroe Public Library and made part of the Today in Keys History column, which appears daily in The Citizen.
âMy job is to collect and preserve history, but that whole family is a huge, interesting rat hole to fall in,â Hambright said in a four-part video about May Johnson, produced by the library.