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Left-Sally and friend visit Nelle in Cedar Key.  The little shacks were used for fishhouses.

Right - 
Nelle on a wall at New Port Richie, Florida
~1930

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Nelle was manager of the Western Union office in Cedar Key in the early 1930s.  She kept the office open during the hurricane of 1935 until the electricity went off.  Her telegraph key has been donated to the Cedar Key Historical Society.

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