LET'S GO BACK TO 1941
WITH
ITEMS FROM THE NEW
DELAWAREAN MAGAZINE
First chosen is an article
under “Where Shall We Wander” about Cuba, since it has been in
the news of late, here in
2017.
Cuba is foreign. Havana is
foreign. Uncle Sam, just across Florida Strait, will never make
the Island, American.
The Cuban's like us,
imitate us, but a Cuban remains a Cuban. The first you might
notice
is Avendia Antonio Maceo,
surfside, known as Malecon, named for a Cuban soldier. To picnic
,
follow the Little
Almendares River inland, you discover The Tropical Gardens, Rio
Cristal and
The Springs of Vento. Rio
Cristal, fifteen miles inland, is owned by Enrique Berenguer,
inkeeper.
He is a flamboyant
intitution in himself and roars his delight at seeing you. Across
the river are
The Springs of Vento,
reached by a swaying iron plank bridge, the planks salvaged from the
raising
The Maine from Havana
harbor. There are hundreds of springs of Vento, limestone and
magnesia
bubbling up eighty
million gallons of spring water per day for Havana's use. An
engineer of Cuba,
Don Francisco de Albear y
Lara, harnessed these springs in 1859.
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