Biscayne National Park

This guide to Biscayne National Park follows Lancelot Jones, born on a sailboat in the bay in 1898 to a formerly enslaved father who had bought a nearby island the year before, and the resort developers who bulldozed a six-lane-wide scar down Elliott Key in the late 1960s hoping to build high-rises here. You'll hear how Jones, then nearly seventy, refused every offer from those developers and instead struck his own deal with the National Park Service. The guide follows him into his final decades on Porgy Key, fishing and watching birds until the day before Hurricane Andrew struck in 1992.