Mallory Square hosts Key West's nightly Sunset Celebration, and most visitors credit the wrong writer for starting it. It was not Ernest Hemingway, already years dead by the 1960s, but Tennessee Williams who got the ritual going, with jugglers, fire-eaters and rum thrown in for good measure.

The square's name carries its own surprise. It honours the Mallory family: Ellen Mallory arrived in 1823, one of the island's first female settlers, and after losing her husband and eldest son within two years, ran a boarding house and nursed the town through Yellow Fever outbreaks. Her son Stephen took a different path, becoming Secretary of the Navy for the Confederate States.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours use Mallory Square as a launch point, tracing Key West's shipwrecking fortunes, spinning pirate lore around Blackbeard and a cursed sea captain, and following the Mallory name across town to the family's own gravestones.