CLUE: Perhaps this edition’s Mystery Photo will come through a little easier. Many of you may have been in the location when the photographer snapped this photo of ships off a coast. Obviously, the hills tell us that this is not the Southern coastline, but where is it? Figure it out and send us your idea to elliott@brack.net, and be sure to include your hometown.
Not a single readers recognized the Mystery Photo, sent in by Sandy and Rick Krause of Lilburn. It was a photo of El Templete, a monument in Havana, Cuba that pays homage to the place where the foundation of the town of San Cristóbal de la Habana was celebrated in 1519, in what is now the Plaza de la Catedral, in Old Havana. The monument consists of bust of Christopher Columbus and three canvases painted by Jean Baptiste Vermay. It is a Neoclassic building, typical example of colonial architecture. Close to the Templete, there is a column which replaces a silk-cotton tree, under which the first mass and the first Council of Havana were celebrated. Maybe more of you could have identified the photograph in a year, since more people probably would have traveled to Havana by then.
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