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Organic and homegrown are trends that are re-gaining popularity—especially in the summer. Cuba, Missouri’s own homegrown product Patti Donahoe is returning for the Crawford County Fair (July 13-17), and she’s bringing Country Music Hall of Famer Merle Haggard with her, which is creating excitement on two fronts. CEO and owner of Applause! Entertainment in Nashville, [...] Cuba, MO: Bullets fly; a fort explodes, scenes of heroism occur. Viva Cuba’s Civil War murals on Buchanan Street evolved daily from sketches to full-color scenes of drama and history. Artist Don Gray, who lived in California at the time, made the scenes come alive during the summer of 2005 after months of research on details [...] Cuba, MO sometimes bills itself as the town where art meets history. On Thursday, June 24, it became the town where art and history met the future. Traveling east on Route 66, solar cars from the 20th Anniversary Tour of the Midwest 2010 American Solar Challenge rolled into Cuba, drawing interest and prompting photographs. The [...] This is an updated post for 2011 Cuba, MO: The fair board and a host of volunteers are ramping up their efforts to make the 2011 Crawford County Fair a success with a theme of “Hometown Pride, County Wide.” The fair runs July 12-16 this year with George Jones headlining on Saturday, July 16. The [...] Old western movies often make mention of the calaboose. Western guys get thrown into them or bust out of them. According to Cuba, MO’s Celebrating 150 Years: A History of Cuba, Missouri, a calaboose is a freestanding one-room concrete block structure usually situated behind the town center, and it is used for a town jail. [...] Pre-2008, the state traffic control boxes at the intersection of Hwy. 19 and Route 66 in Cuba, MO were just utilitarian boxes used to store the technical instruments to regulate the traffic lights at the 4-way intersection. The Viva Cuba Garden, next to the boxes, had been re-landscaped, Glen and Curtis Tutterrow had fabricated the [...] At times, because of ongoing maintenance issues, a continuous push to get all the murals lit at night, and other beautification projects, it is easy to take for granted what Viva Cuba and community support have accomplished. Then a look through the thousands of photos that have been collected featuring Viva Cuba projects will show [...] Mullally Distribuing’s Clean-Up Team contributed to the effort to make Cuba a cleaner place to live during Viva Cuba’s Spring Trash Bash. With the help of employees and family, the team picked up trash on the streets around the distributorship and between WalMart and the motel. It’s amazing how much trash an area can produce. [...] A couple of weeks ago, the blog featured a few businesses that used plantings to make their businesses more attractive and add to the beautification of Cuba. The last couple of weeks, I have been taking photos of some residential plantings around town. I must disclose that I have some personal prejudices about what makes [...] Part of a 2010 series of Cuba, MO attractions to see in conjunction with the murals… Connie’s Shoppe at the Wagon Wheel Motel also serves as the motel office. At one time, the roadside mom and pop motels along Route 66 were the place to stay while traveling from Chicago to California. Today, many of [...] |
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