John Lennon Park

This guide to John Lennon Park in Havana opens with the twenty-year wait between Lennon's murder and the bronze figure finally seated on this Vedado bench in December two thousand. It follows an unplanned problem that appeared almost immediately, the statue's round wire-rimmed glasses vanishing again and again into souvenir hunters' pockets, and the elderly neighbor across the street who took it upon himself to do something about it. Look at the bench now and notice whether someone is sitting nearby.