To do research for their book Inferno at Sea: Stories of Death and Survival Aboard the Morro Castle, authors Deborah Whitcraft and Gretchen Coyletook two trips to Cuba. In 2015, three years after the book was published, the Beach Haven residentstook a third trip to the Communist countryto participate in the Havana International Book Fair, where they were the onlyAmericans honored for their book.
Whitcraft and Coyle recently returned from a fourth trip to Cuba, which they said was mostly going to be “for fun.”
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