Recharger, striving to fill gaps in his education, attended The Sixteenth Annual Albanian Festival at Lehman College, a three-hour variety show.
More than 3,000 fans came to wildly applaud dancers, singers, instrumentalists, comedians and, tragically, poets who performed a touching paen to Albanian unity. Heart-warmingly named “Zonja e Shkodres,” and organized by the Albanian Catholic Church, the event was a tip of the hat to the 160th birthday of Naim Frasheri, the father of modern Albanian literature, whose epic poem Herds and Tillage still brings us to helpless tear of rage.
-- Alban Hasanbelliu