The 2017 Stratton Mtn. School Summit Lecture Series will conclude on Saturday, May 13, 2017 at 6:00 pm, with a talk by Tim Weed entitled A Playground for Empire: Historical Perspectives on Cuba and the USA. The Spanish-American War of 1898 ended Spain’s 400-year rule of Cuba. Cuba became s US protectorate and decades of instability followed, culminating is Batista’s military dictatorship. The 1959 Cuban Revolution is one of the great underdog stories in history, in which a tiny band of rebels prevailed against all odds. This nationalist revolution quickly fell under the sway of the USSR and Cuba’s previously close ties with the U.S. were abruptly severed. This illustrated presentation by novelist and lecturer Tim Weed, a long-time observer of the island, will highlight recent changes in light of Cuba’s long struggle for sovereignty.

This talk will be held in the Patti Kaltsas Center on the Stratton Mountain School Campus. It is free, open to the public, and accessible to those with disabilities. For more information, please contact Katy McNabb at 802.856.1179 or kmcnabb@gosms.org.

A Playground for Empire: Historical Perspectives on Cuba and the USA is a Vermont Humanities Council program hosted by Stratton Mountain School. (Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the NEH or VHC.)

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