October Global Perspectives Book Club Meeting

In October, the New Neighbor’s Coalition Global Perspectives Book Club will be taking a break from our books written by immigrant authors to read a book about an immigrant who came to live in Chautauqua County instead. Run! From Civil War to the NFL: The Jehuu Caulcrick Story is a biography written by local author, Bill Burk, that depicts Jehuu’s journey from Liberia to Western New York. From the back of the book:

“When he was seven years old Jehuu Caulcrick (Jay-you Call-crick) walked the Liberian coast with his family, passing through checkpoints armed with child soldiers not much older than him, blank faces, teeth yellowed by jungle-juice and heroin, AK-47s hanging off gaunt bodies. It was 1990, the middle of country’s second civil war in ten years. He walked for nearly seven-hundred miles, until he was nine years old. When he was twenty-seven years old Jehuu carried a football for the Buffalo Bills in the NFL for one yard and a first down, his only carry in a five-year nomadic career as a professional football player. In between, a lot happened.”

Bill Burk and Run! will be featured at an upcoming book event. This is hosted in partnership with the Chautauqua Hall of Fame, and the author himself. Please join us on September 11th at 6pm in the St. Luke’s Undercroft for a discussion with the author and then a stroll over to the Chautauqua Hall of Fame.

Here the link to purchase the book through the Good Neighbor Bookstore’s website, a local bookshop in Lakewood:
https://goodneighborbooks.com/book/9798988409205

We will be meeting on Monday, October 28th, 2024 at 7pm in the Fenn Library at St. Luke’s Church (in the undercroft, behind the Johnson Stage). We encourage readers to join both for the September event and regular October book club meeting for different discussion opportunities!