Jessica Dixon, Writer.

“Cuba, a mere 103 miles from Key West, seems a world away – or, at least, an age away, as beautifully captured in the revised and expanded version of Cuba Then. Author Ramiro Fernandez was born in Cuba and lived there until age 8, when his family fled to the United States. Fernandez later worked as a photo editor for Time Inc., and at his grandmother’s urging, he began building an extensive personal collection of rare and little-seen photographs of his homeland.

Cuba Then weaves together Fernandez’s collection of images from the 1850s through the 1960s and poems by Richard Blanco, who read at President Obama’s second inauguration.”

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