but a young soldier named mark stops her and falls in love with her. the key west race riot occurred in 1897, after a 19-year-old black man was accused of raping a white woman in the city. he chooses to work for a gas station rather than go to college. his eldest three sons had already died and his fourth and fifth sons were missing. in the original of his journal he had written fiddle head, but crossed that out. it was the second most active atlantic hurricane season in recorded history, and  the most extreme (i.e. 