I'd collected quite a few of my own relevant photographs during my years of touring Cuba but I also wanted some interesting historical images, so I rifled through Internet archives. It was a challenge to keep my selections to a manageable quantity! I ended up with nine text pages, plus nine photo pages. Each photo page is a collage of images and, aside from the maps page, all of the full-color photos are mine; the black-and-whites are historic images that were captured from various virtual sources.
I hope you will enjoy my work. Here's a link to the post on my Cubana de Corazón blog...
http://cubanacorazon.blogspot.ca/2017/01/cubas-early-history-from-columbus-to.html
And, just to entice you to click and look, here's a snippet of the opening text and the first page of historic photos ...
An early history of Cuba –
from Columbus to Castro – and how I fell in love with a country and its people
By Jenny Cressman
In January of 1959, Fidel
Castro and his crew of rag-tag rebels marched into Havana, Cuba’s capitol, and
declared triumph for their revolutionary forces. Nine months later, I was born.
I don’t think my parents were celebrating Castro’s victory but the significance
of that year gave me something in common with the controversial little country
long before it was on my personal radar.
Before I tell you how my affection
for Cuba developed, let me first give you an overview of the historical
highpoints of this small archipelago during a crucial time in its development. Let’s
start with its so-called discovery....
