In normal times, this past weekend would have been a climactic one for the tiny town of Cuba, Kansas. The third weekend of March was traditionally their annual Rock-a-Thon, which is not a week-long dance party to classic AM radio hits. It is literally people in rocking chairs 24 hours a day for seven days. This tradition started in the basement of a laundromat back in the 1970s as something fun to do while everyone waited for spring — and raise a little money in the process, maybe break some world records. “People would come over from all over Republic County and bring their frying pans and make hamburgers at 3 in the morning until the next crew came over, then go to work. It was that community spirit,” says Jim Richardson, the National Geographic photographer who lives an hour and a half south of Cuba in Lindsborg, where he operates the Small World Gallery. Richardson spent 40 years documenting the life of Cuba, a project that earned interest from places like CBS Sunday Morning.
Source: Kansas Reflector
