Before Key West earned its reputation as a must-visit tourism destination, there was a waterfront bar and restaurant that locals made their own — the Half Shell Raw Bar. It came by its “salty” name ...

While I was stranded in North Carolina amid a record-breaking snowstorm, members of the Marco Island Shell Club were braving a different kind of winter chill.

While money can’t buy rich people happiness, it sure can buy many other things, some of which the poor didn’t even know ...