US preservation group wants to team up with Cuba in a controversial effort to save the author's residence.
"...Declaring the sorry state of Finca Vigía a threat to a piece of American cultural history, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has named the old farmhouse on a hillside overlooking the Cuban capital one of America's most endangered historic places...
What makes the hands-across-the-Straits-of-Florida project so noteworthy is not just the fact that it is the first time the National Trust has placed a site outside the United States on its list of America's most endangered historic places."
Thanks to Chris Steins
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