Route 66 eyesore due for a makeover
This blighted Route 66 spot in Cuba is due for a transformation. Viva Cuba, a non-profit community betterment organization, plans to tackle this [...]
They trashed your town…trash zombies hit Cuba
Cans at Recklein Commons by the Museum and Veterans Memorial are an eyesore. They trashed your town.. Yes, it’s true. While you weren’t [...]
A New Chapter in the Gold Star Boys Mural: The rest of the story
The Gold Star Boys mural was painted right after 9/11/2001. It pictures the faces of six young men from the Cuba Area who fought in WWII and did not return to their families. But then we found out that there was more to the story. Ralph Fishwick lost his life in the line of duty on a return convoy off the coast of Africa on December 2, 1942. We thought. Read on for the rest of the story.
We are wishing you a cool Christmas in Cuba, MO in 2012
Cuba, Missouri is ready for a "cool" Christmas season: the tree, the Christmas print, the History Museum, the parade, the lighting contest, the rocker, and [...]
The Eiffel Tower or the Cuba Water Tower?
When Judy Workman bought an antique dresser for Wallace House at an auction, she didn't know the small slice of Cuba history that she would find inside--old photos, a WW II postcard, and other artifacts of a family. One photo and the front and back of a postcard gives us pause on this Veterans Day to think about the young soldiers who put their lives on hold to defend our country. They leave their loved ones at home, sometimes to venture to far lands. How do they feel? What do they think about? Soldier George Smith in 1944 preferred the Cuba, Missouri water tower over the site of the Eiffel Tower.