"My father was called Kyrie Kosta, Mr. Kostas, as a sign of respect in Smyrna, Asia Minor. This is the root of our name Kyrkostas," explained Gus Kyrkostas to me at a family party. A "host of hosts", Gus and his wife Julie, had legendary parties in ...
"It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Maria Athanasiades on July 7, 2009," said Christos Tzelios. "Mrs. Athanasiades was a co-founder of the Athanasiades cultural Foundation, Inc. and dynamic patriot. She was active to the last ...
"She is beautiful. Oh, so beautiful. She shall become Rani, Queen of the Jungle." This phrase introduced the children's literature masterpiece, Rani: Queen of the Jungle, a children's book by Dr. Constantine Georgiou. A soft-spoken professor with an ...
The Athanasiades Cultural Foundation has awarded scholarships to outstanding students for 16 years. Their elegant Awards Ceremony, held every Thanksgiving weekend, has promoted a positive self-image among participating college students. The 2008 ...
Katopanagia was to Tseme what Bayside is to New York City. Our family and the Gagas family had winter homes in Kato Panagia. They all had second, summer homes in Erythrae. When I lived in Chios, I was a sailor in the Minoan Lines. The owner's wife ...
sent five children to William Spyropoulos School. "I was in the PTA from the beginning. Now my grandchildren attend." Ten years ago in 1991, the businessman introduced the mortgage reduction program that paid off all mortgages of previous years. ...
Despina Siolas of Bayside and Mattituck, New York was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Genetics on May 22, 2008 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The title of her dissertation was "shRNA Barcode Screens as a Tool for Discovering ...
"The glory Sicily had with the Greek colonies of two thousand five hundred years ago was the high point of Sicilian history," said the museum display in the "Paolo Orsi" Museum in Syracuse, Sicily. "Modern Sicily is a shadow of the greatness it had ...
"Patients would give me fruits, vegetables, meat and fish as payment for my services," recalls retired Dr. Fotis Papadopoulos. "There was one surgeon who cared for Chios and a neighboring island once a month. I tried to take care of my patients until ...
A return to epic movies and novels is the trend. Manos Thanopoulos presented his epic novels H Afentes (The Bosses) and H Ohia (The Poisonous Snake) to the Cephalonian Association "Aenos", Inc. on Wednesday evening, April 9 at their Astoria Culture ...
Help us add to our database, by linking this writer their entry in Wikipedia or Source Watch, or by suggesting that we remove it from our index.