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Prika - The Glory Box

The Glory Box of Yesterday Many traditions have been erased by the redefinition of female roles in modern society. Changes in these roles were slow in reaching Kythera, and even though village women were often the back-b...

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Northern NSW - 11

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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Northern NSW - 10

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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Northern NSW - 9

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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Northern NSW - 8

Central New England Armidale Nick John Veneris (Hellen), 16yrs old when he landed from Gerakitianika in late 1900 with Anargyros Zakharis Panaretos of Gunnedah, could be the bloke advertising himself as ‘N. Venares, frui...

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Northern NSW - 5

The Hunter Region Cessnock Seventeen year old Mick Emmanuel Potiri led the Catering Corps into Cessnock in 1908 after a brief cadetship with his brother George on the Tablelands. Four and a half years later he passed com...

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