Library Marks 50th Anniversary of Albert Schweitzer Death

In observance of the 50th anniversary of the death of Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, philosopher and medical missionary, the Westport Library today presented a program that included Westporters Clarinda Higgins and her husband, William G. Armstrong, Jr. authors of “Against the Current….How Albert Schweitzer Inspired a Young Man’s Journey.” They spoke of Mark Higgins, a cousin of Clarinda’s, who went to Gabon and later was brutally murdered at age 20 in 1960 in the last violent days of the struggle for independence in the Belgian Congo. They are pictured next to a painting of the hospital established in 1913 by Schweitzer in Lambaréné, Gabon where Mark Higgins worked. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com