Mark Schumann

Finance Chairman, Peter Gorry’s daughter, Conner, featured today in Associated Press story

U.S. citizen Conner Gorry smokes a cigar as she poses for a portrait next to the logo of a new English-language bookstore, cafe and literary salon "Cuba Libro," a group-owned private enterprise she is part of with five Cubans in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Aug. 9, 2013. "I know how hard it is to get English-language sources here," said New York City native Gorry, 43, a journalist living in Cuba since 2002. "So I started cooking this idea." (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
U.S. citizen Conner Gorry smokes a cigar as she poses for a portrait next to the logo of a new English-language bookstore, cafe and literary salon “Cuba Libro,” a group-owned private enterprise she is part of with five Cubans in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Aug. 9, 2013. “I know how hard it is to get English-language sources here,” said New York City native Gorry, 43, a journalist living in Cuba since 2002. “So I started cooking this idea.” (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s first English-language bookstore offers a selection that would just about stock the lobby of an average Vermont bed and breakfast. Next to what’s available in English elsewhere in Havana, it might as well be the Library of Congress.

The brainchild of a longtime U.S. expat, Cuba Libro launched Friday as a bookshop, cafe and literary salon that offers islanders and tourists alike a unique space to buy or borrow tomes in the language of Shakespeare. Cuba Libro also gives customers an occasional glimpse of opinions hard to find elsewhere on the island.

“I know how hard it is to get English-language sources here,” said New York City native Conner Gorry, 43, a journalist living in Cuba since 2002. “So I started cooking this idea.”

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http://bigstory.ap.org/article/new-english-language-bookstore-1st-havana

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