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Gretchen Sorin and her son, Gregory Sorin, enjoy a moment together
Monday, Sept. 13, before he returned to Los Angeles. (Greg Klein/AllOtsego.com)

AllOtsego People
For Sorins, film success is contagious

By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

For Cooperstown’s Gretchen Sorin, the only thing that might top the success she has had in the past two years is seeing one of her children share in and build off of that success.

Sorin, the director of the Cooperstown Graduate Program, author of the best seller, “Driving While Black, African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights,” and co-director of the PBS documentary based on the book, has had an amazing couple of years.

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