So all my life the only thing I ever knew about Cuba was the cuban cigars. Mainly due to the fact that my father really enjoyed them and they where always a popular topic since they where illegal obtain for years. I had also heard of the term "Cuban Missile Crisis" but my high school was reluctant enough to never really teach about what happened. Through this class, I have learned so much about Cuba and the Cuban people and I am so in love and intrigued by a society of people that was cut off from the rest of the world under a dictatorship but is now "free".
Something that I learned while researching what I wanted to do for this project is that President John F. Kennedy called his press secretary at the time, Pierre Salinger, and asked him to secure “a lot of cigars". As it happened, it wasn’t until the following morning, when Mr. Salinger informed the president that he had, in fact, scored 1,200 petite H. Unmans that Kennedy signed the decree. Here is a picture of him actually smoking the Petite H. Unmans
This is absolutely amazing to me. The idea that a man could have the power to cut off all resources entering a country but at the same time have the power to take resources out of that country. Therefore, here are my ideas:
1) I would want to talk to the people of Cuba and hear what they have to say about what is like for them to go through what JFK put them through and what he put their grandparents or great parents through and how (if at all) it has carried on into today
2) After collecting these stories I would somehow want to speak with the makers of the Petite H. Unmans and hear if they remember when JFK secured the cigars
2.5) If I can't speak to them then to speak to any cigar manufactures in Cuba and hear what they had to go through and what their profits where like before and during the blockade
3) Collect all of these beautiful stories and get some supplies to make cigars. ( rolling paper, tabbaco, etc.)
4) Have a performance where I write down these stories individually on each paper (or all on one depending on the time)
5)Add the tabbaco
6) Roll them
7) Have someone (or myself) smoke them
I am open to changing this I just know I want it to incorporate the stories of the people and what they went through during the missile crisis and I would like it do have something to do with cigars
Something that I learned while researching what I wanted to do for this project is that President John F. Kennedy called his press secretary at the time, Pierre Salinger, and asked him to secure “a lot of cigars". As it happened, it wasn’t until the following morning, when Mr. Salinger informed the president that he had, in fact, scored 1,200 petite H. Unmans that Kennedy signed the decree. Here is a picture of him actually smoking the Petite H. Unmans
This is absolutely amazing to me. The idea that a man could have the power to cut off all resources entering a country but at the same time have the power to take resources out of that country. Therefore, here are my ideas:
1) I would want to talk to the people of Cuba and hear what they have to say about what is like for them to go through what JFK put them through and what he put their grandparents or great parents through and how (if at all) it has carried on into today
2) After collecting these stories I would somehow want to speak with the makers of the Petite H. Unmans and hear if they remember when JFK secured the cigars
2.5) If I can't speak to them then to speak to any cigar manufactures in Cuba and hear what they had to go through and what their profits where like before and during the blockade
3) Collect all of these beautiful stories and get some supplies to make cigars. ( rolling paper, tabbaco, etc.)
4) Have a performance where I write down these stories individually on each paper (or all on one depending on the time)
5)Add the tabbaco
6) Roll them
7) Have someone (or myself) smoke them
I am open to changing this I just know I want it to incorporate the stories of the people and what they went through during the missile crisis and I would like it do have something to do with cigars
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