There is a history in all men's lives.
Inverell Times, Friday, 3 June, 1932. GREEK WEDDING Samios – Psaros A most attractive wedding, which created considerable interest locally, was celebrated in Greek at St. Augustine’s Church of England yesterday by the Gr...
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The Peters Enigma The name Peter has a long association with the naming style of Greek Oyster Saloons and Cafes in eastern Australia. The name Peter and Peters with and without an apostrophe, continued as part of the Gre...
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It was the winter of 1973 and it was my first trip to the island of Kythera. At once I was drawn to the intriguing history and architecture of this island and to the beautiful vistas of what was then a cold and wind-swep...
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Preserved by Marina S Pentes. The extensive presence of Kytherians in the Central West of New South Wales, centred on Dubbo, can be gauged from the vast number of advertisements in this booklet. Was an advertisement plac...
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Paper delivered by JOHN COMINO Dip Law (SAB), Notary Public to the 1ST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF KYTHERAISMOS Kythera, Greece September 24-26, 2004 “Η πατριδα ενος ανθρωπου ειναι εκει που ευδοκιμει και πλουτιςει" .........
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The year is 1955 and 18yr old Harry Eric Crethar is doing his usual run around ‘The Block’, the local name for the major retail portion of Lismore’s CBD, sussing out the café competition in preparation for the launch of...
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Kytherians at War Greek Australian VEMA TO BHMA 7/39 April 2002 ANZAC Day Feature Compiled (with the help of many others) and edited by Ann Coward No, this is not an article about feuding families. It is about Australia...
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Central Western Slopes – Warrumbungle District Baradine Antonios Dimitrios Diacopoulos appears to be the Samaritan who brought the loaves and fishes to the Baradinian timber workers. He was 13yrs old when he began his pi...
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Odyssey Magazine, Vol. 7 No. 6 (July/August2000) Kythira has been dubbed "Kangaroo island" because of the large number of Greek-Australian women who have made their lives there. Anna Patty meets some of them and asks wh...
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First section of Chapter XI Australians and Greeks 1 The Early Years Halstead Press Sydney 1992 pp.190-222 If there is a single word which summarises the lives of most Greeks in Australia early in the 20th century it is...
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From, Peter Vanges. Kythera. A History. 1993. Chapter 52 Kytherian Brotherhood of Australia (NSW) Committees, 1922-2005. Seventy years ago, the Kytherian pioneers in Australia saw the need to unite the Kytherian communit...
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From, Peter Vanges. Kythera. A History. 1993. Chapter 52 Kytherian Brotherhood of Australia (NSW) Seventy years ago, the Kytherian pioneers in Australia saw the need to unite the Kytherian community within a formal assoc...
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NSW Legislative Council Hansard, 30/10/2002 THE GREEKS IN QUEENSLAND A HISTORY FROM 1859 TO 1945 The Hon. JAMES SAMIOS [10.30 p.m.]: Recently I attended the Hellenic Club in Sydney for the launch of a book called The Gre...
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From, Neos Kosmos, (Melbourne) Monday 21-6-2004 English Edition. http://www.neoskosmos.com.au//040621/nkew/entertainment/entertainment_index.shtml Faces beyond the Greek cafe Between the late nineteenth century and the e...
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NSW Legislative Council Hansard, Full Day Transcript for 20 April 1993. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Tuesday, 20th April, 1993 CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL Second Reading Debate resumed from 11th March. [Jim Samios, Kytherian; then mem...
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NSW Legislative Assembly Hansard*, (Part) Day Transcript for 7 June 2002. The business of the House was suspended to hear an address by the President of the Hellenic Republic. It is interesting because reference is made...
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North Western NSW – Moree Plains Ashley Too Hard. Boggabilla Too Hard. Boomi Anthony Emmanuel Travassaros tried his first café venture here, and gave the locals their first and only Greek experience, around the mid 1930...
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North Western NSW – Namoi Valley Bellata Andy and Nick Samios appear to be the first Kytherians to have discovered the place when they followed the swaggies’ trail from Narrabri in 1926. Nineteen year old Andy, his two...
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Lower New England Barraba The Barrabarians were civilized in late 1905 by a subtle new twist to the euphoric fragrance of frying onions, that great cooking smell, wafting out of a shop in Queen Street. Standing at the st...
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The Clarence District Bellingen Athanasios Anastasios Samios came down from Murwillumbah in early 1908, by then an old experienced hand aged 20, and was possibly a waiter for someone or other until establishing/acquiring...
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