• Monetary system creates division
• Vintage cars of all makes cruise Havana streets
• Diverse influences seen in buildings
• Billboards promote political wisdom rather than products
• Improvement in literacy a source of national pride
• MDI woman's return to homeland highly emotional
• Mainers planning lessons with link to Cuba
• The triumph of education
• Cubans caught in Elian mania
• Mainers attend rally in Cuba
• Educator to return to homeland
• Maine teachers head for Cuba

 

The 20th century architecture of Cuba's capitol city, Havana, has been preserved by 40 years of neglect. Little has been built or removed since the 1950s and preservationists, both in Cuba and the U.S. debate how to save the once beautiful but decaying city.
(NEWS Photo by Bob Delong)

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