Exclusive! Godfrey writes for Kurir on 140th anniversary of US-serbian relations: 'From a Humble Plum Grew a Wish for Freedom!'

When a young man from the Banat village of Idvor stepped off the boat in New York City in 1874, his stomach was empty, he did not speak English, and had only five cents in his pocket. He was fleeing the military frontier of the Austrian Empire in search of a better future. The young Mihajlo Pupin decided to spend his remaining money on a piece of plum pie. As Pupin recounted on the first page of his Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography, the plum pie contained