HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22 ‘Homespun Humanitarianism’ Presentation at Cooperstown Village Hall SUNDAY SPEAKER—3-4 p.m. “Homespun Humanitarianism in a Refugee Crisis” by local author John Webb about his new book “Molyvos: A Greek Village’s Heroic Response to the Global Refugee Crisis.” The first lecture of the Sunday Speaker Series presented by the Friends of the Village Library. Free, open to the public. 3rd floor Ballroom, Village Hall, 22 Main Street, Cooperstown. (607) 547-8344 or visit https://www.facebook.com/VillageLibraryOfCooperstown/ DINE-OUT—Noon. Eat out to support…
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Thank you so very much, Wriley Nelson, for that beautifully written article that captures, in scope and in essence, not only the story of Molyvos and the book itself, but the importance and magnitude of the challenge that is ours in the face of the global refugee crisis.…
In the last months of 2014, a backwater fishing village on the Greek island of Lesvos became the epicenter of the global refugee crisis. Molyvos, an increasingly popular tourist destination that sits just across the four mile-wide Straits of Mytilene from Turkey, suddenly became the entryway to the European Union for thousands of refugees.…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR from JOHN WEBB As Cooperstown’s Only Newspaper, Please Add Balance, Enlightenment To the Editor: I have been taken aback in recent months by the stridently conservative rightwing posture of The Freeman’s Journal (and Hometown Oneonta), but the edition of Feb. 13 was particularly glaring, and that prompts me to write. First of all, among other features, there was your long, space-consuming editorial calling for the repeal of the “Green Light Law” because it prohibits the State’s…