In the summer of 1962, one of Nancy and Neill Macaulay’s former neighbors, Lucille, wrote them a series of letters chronicling the increasing struggle of daily life in Cuba. A Free Will Baptist missionary, Lucille, was committed to staying in Cuba, despite increasing hardships. A sense of despair increasingly emerges with each letter. Yet aside from the unique window onto a moment in the past that her testimony provides, these letters are also invaluable for what they don’t say. Lucille’s home was located in Las Cabañas, approximately forty miles from one of the two nuclear missile sites the Cuban and Soviet governments had positioned in Pinar del Río province. UF Special & Area Studies Collections, Neill & Nancy Macaulay Papers, Box 1, Folder 4.
