Not many American travelers to Cuba make it to Santiago de Cuba, on the southeastern coast. But the 500-year-old city has many attractions, including loads of music; the oldest extant colonial house on the island (c. 1540s), the Sierra Maestra range, out of which the Cuban revolutionary forces emerged; and the final resting place of El Jefe himself, Fidel Castro. His tomb at the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery in Santiago is a huge boulder shaped like a kernel of corn in homage to Jose Marti, the poet hero of Cuba whose domed monument stands nearby. June 19, 2017.
And now a word from POTUS 2
On a recent visit to the Massachusetts Historical Society, an archivist brought out numerous items for inspection. One highlight was this letter from President John Adams to his wife, Abigail, in 1800, after a few days of living in the White House. Many people know its famous contents, because an excerpt has long appeared on the White House dining room mantel. It goes like this: “I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this House, and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men rule under this roof.” If only he knew. — in Boston, Massachusetts.
