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To commemorate Memorial Day 2011, we are re-posting this story of two brothers and how they remembered their brother and how it honors us all… Cliff Mullen of Cuba, Missouri had a winning smile and wrote for the high school paper the Wildcat Wailer. He played baseball and enjoyed 4-H activities in the rural Missouri [...] During W.W. II the “Blue Bonnet,” a Frisco train named after the Texas state flower, was a familiar sight with its distinctive blue and white cars. It was this #7 train that whisked away Cuba’s service men as they left their homes to protect our way of life and values. They sometimes gave their lives [...] Cuba, MO: Recently, I noticed that the planted areas by the tracks on Smith Street were looking a little shabby with weeds and some overgrowth. I meant to bring it to the attention of Viva Cuba to see if we needed to work on the areas. But the folks at Frisco’s Restaurant & Pub took [...] Even before Viva Cuba, the murals, the Viva Cuba Garden, and other beautification projects, Cuba’s citizens have been civic minded and understood the importance of an attractive community. Vera Cantley’s column “Recalling the Past” in the Cuba Free Press recently pointed that out in a newspaper report from Cuba in 1912. A Civic Club of [...] The curator of the Cuba History Museum Betty DeLeo passed out this first person narration of the museum’s history as a building at the Chamber of Commerce meeting yesterday. I am one of 20 historic buildings in Cuba, MO. Did you see my historic plaque on the side of the front door? I am very [...] Viva Cuba’s annual Chair-i-table Auction on Saturday, May 8 at Java.net Books & Gifts brought out the bidders to raise over $2200. A live auction directed by volunteer Ed Fadler at 12:00 followed by the end of the silent auction at 1:00 pm sent several pieces of furniture to new homes with the winning bidders. [...] Cuba, MO will soon have even more public art. For a small town of 3500, there’s an abundance of art both inside and outside. One of the offshoots of the Viva Cuba’s Mural Project is that the community has embraced art in a big way. Missouri rtist Ray Harvey is no stranger to Cuba’s art [...] Recently Viva Cuba members visited the fourth graders during Missouri History Week and gave them a narrated tour of the murals as part of the week’s events. Prior to the tour, the 4th graders studied the mural curriculum on each mural that Viva Cuba provides them. Another source that the students used was Moments in [...] This week’s photo comes to us from Chris Case at the Cuba Free Press. As soon as he spied, the vintage Packard station wagon, he realized that it was like the one in the Bette Davis mural atop the Cuba Free Press building. Case grabbed his camera for this photo opportunity. It seems that the [...] |
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