Saturday, October 16 brings the 20th Annual Chili Cook-Off. You can rev your motors for some Nuts & Bolts Chili this year as some of the area’s car and bodywork specialists preview their premium chili for tasters. Tasters will vote with their tickets for the title of the master chili chef and the silver ladle. Tasting and voting is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Recklein Auditorium area on Smith Street.">Saturday, October 16 brings the 20th Annual Chili Cook-Off. You can rev your motors for some Nuts & Bolts Chili this year as some of the area’s car and bodywork specialists preview their premium chili for tasters. Tasters will vote with their tickets for the title of the master chili chef and the silver ladle. Tasting and voting is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Recklein Auditorium area on Smith Street.">

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Cuba Fest scheduled for Oct. 16-17

Thursday, 07 October 2010 14:23. The Viva Cuba beautification organization is making ready for a weekend of special activities during Tri-C’s October 16-17 Cuba Fest.

Saturday, October 16 brings the 20th Annual Chili Cook-Off. You can rev your motors for some Nuts & Bolts Chili this year as some of the area’s car and bodywork specialists preview their premium chili for tasters. Tasters will vote with their tickets for the title of the master chili chef and the silver ladle. Tasting and voting is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Recklein Auditorium area on Smith Street.

Also on Saturday is the narrated trolley tour of the murals along the Route 66 corridor. Every mural has a story connected to the town’s and nation’s histories. The rides are free and start in front of the Catholic Church at School and Smith Street and take about a half hour. The popular tours run from 11 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.

On Sunday, there is the second annual Cemetery Tour of Kinder Cemetery aboard the turn of the century trolley replica. Catch the free trolley at the Catholic Church for a ride to Kinder Cemetery and the “Footprints on the Sands of Time” tour. The tours run from 11 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. and were a big hit last year.

At Kinder Cemetery, meet historic Cuba citizens dressed in period costume who will tell their stories in a dramatic fashion. Meet Lightning Rod Smith who was a Grand Marshall of the Cuba Fair for years with a “voice like thunder, an eloquence like Webster, and a dashing presence.” Then there’s Lulu Kinder. Find out her family’s role in Cuba and why she named one of her daughters Robert. Napoleon Fowler was a steamboat captain and fought with the revolutionaries in Havana Cuba. These and other colorful characters will make this year’s cemetery tour memorable.

As Longfellow wrote in his poem “Footprints on the Sands of Time”: “Lives of great men [and women] all remind us/ We can make our lives sublime,/ And, departing, leave behind us/ Footprints on the sands of time.”

Viva Cuba’s activities are only part of the entertainment, food, wine tasting, crafts, apple butter making, and other events planned for the 49th annual Cuba Fest.

By Jane Reed      

Source: www.threeriverspublishing.com/TRP/

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