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Humberto Mayol is an award-winning Cuban photographer and documentary filmmaker working with the Palomas Group of the National Film Institute of Cuba.

Helen Maynard Ireland was an American woman who moved to Cuba in the 1920s with her husband, a lawyer for the Cuban Cane Sugar Company. She wrote extensively about her experiences in Cuba, and while living there, befriended Rosaila Abreau, a Cuban simian researcher.

Augustus C. Mayhew (1879-1961) was born in South Norwalk, Connecticut, the son of Theodore and Jennie (Dugan) Mayhew. In 1901, he traveled aboard a steamship operated by the Cuban-American Steamship Company to La Gloria, Cuba, where he had purchased land. In La Gloria, which came to be the largest American settlement on the island, Mayhew operated an apiary on his property, the "Bee Ranch" and exported honey.

In about 1915, Mayhew married Beulah Nevada McAbee, the daughter of American colonists who ran the J.C. Francis Store in La Gloria. Mayhew and his wife Beulah had four children: William H., Frank, Lucille Delight, and Augustus C., Jr.

During the 1930s, Mayhew purchased a 100-acre orange grove in La Gloria known as the Griffith property. Augustus C. Mayhew, Jr. managed the family's orange groves after his return from serving in the United States Navy during World War II. Mayhew, Jr. married Lucille Sanderson. With their three children Clarence, Augustus C., III, and George, they lived in La Gloria until 1953 when they sold their property and returned to the United States.

Novelist and playwright Evelyn Wilde Mayerson was associate professor of English and director of the composition program at the University of Miami, from where she received her B.A. in 1963. She is the author of several books set in South Florida including "No Enemy but Time" (1983) and "Miami: A Saga" (1994), as well as other titles. Her play "Marjory", about the life of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, was commissioned by the Coconut Grove Playhouse to celebrate Miami's centennial and debuted in 1996.

The Blez family played a role in the Cuban independence movement of 1868. Felicia Marcé Castellanos (1850-1941), widow of Blez, sewed one of three flags commissioned by Carlos Manuel de Céspedes to represent the Cuban independence forces. A native of Bayamo, Marcé made the flag when she was 18 years old, giving the nascent republic a symbol around which people could rally. Soon after making the flag, she was married and almost immediately widowed when her husband was executed by colonial Spanish forces. Marcé was named a “Libertadora Insigne” for her involvement in the Cuban independence struggle of 1868 and 1895. Her son is the well-known Cuban photographer Joaquín Blez Marcé (1886-1974).