THE ARMENIAN FESTIVAL

So over on the east side of Cleveland there is an Armenian Church. St. Gregory of Narek on Richmond Road. And the people there  are as friendly as you could ever imagine. Just good people.

And its a good festival, amazing food and you actually learn some stuff.  As some of you may know this is the 100th Anniversary of the start of the Armenian Genocide.  From 1915-1918 the Turks slaughtered roughly 8,000,000 to 1.5 Million Armenians for, well there are several theories. But really does it matter why? Turkey still denies it happened while most civilized countries have recognized it as a Genocide.

There had been a monument to the Martyrs of 1915 at St. Gregory's for some time, but this year of course they had some videos and pamphlets so we non-Armenians could understand what happened there.

Good People and Good Food and a little history. My kind of day.