EPISODE · Apr 22, 2018 · 17 MIN
Friends and the Promised Land
from Dispatches from Costa Rica · host Alexander Richey
In 1948 four young men were arrested in Fairhope, Alabama, for refusing to register for the draft. They were quakers and believed in pacifism. At the trial the judge said, 'like it or leave it.' So they did. They left in search of a more peaceful place, and they ended up in the green mountains of Costa Rica. This is a story of whether the grass is really greener on the other side.
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In 1948 four young men were arrested in Fairhope, Alabama, for refusing to register for the draft. They were quakers and believed in pacifism. At the trial the judge said, 'like it or leave it.' So they did. They left in search of a more peaceful place, and they ended up in the green mountains of Costa Rica. This is a story of whether the grass is really greener on the other side.
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