Williams speech by North Adams native Paul Farm on poverty medicine to air May 22-24 on WilliNet

If you live in Williamstown, and missed internationally renowned physician Dr. Paul Farmer when he spoke at Williams College on May 9, here’s your chance to see and hear his inspiring talk:  "Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World."   Williamstown Community Television (WilliNet)-Channel 17 will replay Farmer’s lecture on May 22, 23, and 24.  Farmer spoke to a full-house and enthusiastic audience at Williams.  Farmer describes his work dealing with diseases that disproportionately afflict the poor, particularly in Haiti and Africa.  Paul Farmer grew up in North Adams and still has family here.  Now, he divides his clinical time between Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and a charity hospital in rural Haiti.  North Hampton writer Tracy Kidder describes Farmer’s mission to conquer diseases among the world’s poor in his best-selling book “Mountains Beyond Mountains.  Dr. Paul Farmer can be seen on channel 17: Williamstown Community Television (WilliNet) on Sunday, May 22, 8:30 p.m.; Monday, May 23, 6 p.m. and Tuesday, May 24, 1:30 p.m. For more information, call Deb Dane, manager of WilliNet at 458-0900 or email her at debbydane@aol.com.