John Drehner News Today

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“ This is my friend John Drehner. A regular in this column and a regular sage. “Come again?” I say. “In what language?” “In the language that is going to help the whole world live in peace,” he says. “The only problem is, no one’s heard of it.” He’s talking about Esperanto, a language which belongs to everybody because it belongs to no nationality. It started with an idealistic Polish eye doctor, Ludwig Lejzer Zamenhov, who created it — mostly while he was a still a k...

“See you at the Nudist Colony,” says John. This rainy Saturday afternoon happened in the last days of the lockdown. Still no gatherings allowed. John Drehner and I were so bored, we came up with this brilliant idea: “Let’s do Shakespeare in the Park!” I suggested. He’d do the acting, I’d be his audience of one. The governor couldn’t object to a crowd of one. Drehner’s a retired mail carrier whom friends know for playing bit parts in a ton of Shakespeare plays right here in Ba...