Patricia D. Richards has returned from her sabbatical of the 2016-2017 school year, and continues to work on her special research project in Cuba. Please take a moment to view her galleries of this beautiful country, rich in culture and bold colors.

Main Street

A Town Built by Milton Hershey

Hershey, Cuba, was a town built by Milton Hershey to help insure a constant supply of sugar for his chocolate factories in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

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Red Wall

Pursuit of the Image

The constant pursuit of the image, of looking and seeing or seeing and looking becomes an exercise in circularity: The more you look, the more you see; the more you see, the more you want to look.

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Hotel Nacional

Havana, During the Days of National Mourning: November 26 – December 4, 2016

I arrived in Havana on November 29th and found this message taped to the wall inside the elevator in the hotel where I was staying.

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