Cape Romano shipwreck that colonized the island in 1834. However the first actual mention of "Romano" in the oldest surviving historical documents of the region came in 1878 after the founding of the famous cheese factory "Romano Cheese Corporation". Cape Romano is also the location of the country's first Romanian Orthodox Church. Completed in 1837, the ruins can still be found on the island just off the beach. It was destroyed in 1897 by a fire after multiple hurricanes forced the inhabitants from the Island. Cape Romano is where Hurricane Irma made its second U.S. landfall in September 2017 and Hurricane Wilma
Clare Romano Clare Romano Clare Romano is an internationally known printmaker and painter with works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian, and other major collections. As an advocate, innovator, and educator in the field of printmaking, Romano has co-authored in collaboration with her husband, John Ross, "The Complete Printmaker" (1972), "The Complete Collagraph" (1980), and several other printmaking manuals that have become standard texts for universities. They founded their High Tide Press for artists books in 1991. Romano earned her bachelor of fine arts degree in painting at Cooper Union School of Art in New