"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity."
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Pro Publio Sestio
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Without the love and care of her immediate family and a network of aunts, uncles, great-aunts and great-uncles and their children, the transition that Chris had to make when she migrated to Australia at the age of fourte...
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The Australian part of George Comino’s story began in 1954. He vividly remembers the day, 1st April 1954 when he stepped off the ship the Fairsea at Circular Quay Sydney. He was met by his brother Peter who was his spons...
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The Australian part of George Comino’s story begins in 1954. He vividly remembers the day, 1st April 1954 when he stepped off the ship the Fairsea at Circular Quay Sydney. He was met by his brother Peter who was his spon...
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While I was living in Melbourne during the 1980s I enrolled in a Greek language course with the CAE. Our teacher was Nina Black a well known personality in the Greek community as well as in the wider community. It was th...
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Daughters of Aphrodite: Cafe Brides Chapter 5, Aphrodite and the Mixed Grill. Kytherian-born, George Kentrotis, left Fratsia in 1925, when he was 21. He returned from Australia at the age of 53 to find a wife. Vasiliki w...
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Sunday Sensation Not something new on the menu of S.Peter & Co Cafe in Otho Street on a Sunday afternoon in January of 1925 but an event more closely related to the fabled bull in the china shop. On this occasion a horse...
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In August 2005 when we travelled to Kythera to attend the "Discover your Roots" event at Hora, we stayed in the village of Fratsia. It was our habit most evenings to wander down to the main square to buy a cool drink or...
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An Interview with Nicholas Laurantus. By, Takis Constantopedos, & Alfred Vincent Περιοδικό, Tο Γιοφύρι, 3-4, (Σύδνεύ, 1978) The periodical, The Yofiri, 3-4, pp. 15-17, Sydney, 1978. The original inteview was conducted in...
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“the sparks from the magnesium were a real hazard” "My recollection of the Relay was that I replied to an invitation in the newspaper to participate by the old Orara Shire Council, (now Ulmarra Shire) and the conditions...
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"Even today I realise the honour the Council placed on me to carry the Torch. My involvement with the Olympic Torch Relay commenced in early 1956, when Councils ‘YiI asked for potential runners who could run one mile in...
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Papa always had photos of Anna /Helen/ the daughters of Mary his Sister who theo and Andrew bought out from Kythera and they worked in his shopin Merriwa until theo introduced Helen to Con in Oberon and Anna to Theo Coro...
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APRIL 2003 Edition number: 247 From the archive of the newspaper "Kytherian Idea"* *Original name of "Kythiraismos", Newspaper. FROM THE NEWSPAPERS ARCHIVE ENGLISH SECTION A Remembering from Kythera's occupation (An arti...
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1. I recall that Peter had the cafe during the war. I am sure he had it in 1940. It became the Victory Cafe after the War. 2. Peter was extremely generous. He was always good to us as kids. If we needed to, he would let...
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As told to George C Poulos, Friday 4th November, 2005. I was born on the 22nd January, 1921, in Cumnock, in New South Wales. My father was Bill Johnson. Our family moved to the Gilgandra district when I was 4 years of ag...
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From the book MEDICAL PIONEER OF THE 20TH CENTURY CHAPTER 3 MEDICAL SCHOOL The relaxation of entry requirements into the faculty of medicine resulted in a record number of enrolments. Three hundred students, more than tw...
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From the book MEDICAL PIONEER OF THE 20TH CENTURY CHAPTER 1 MY FATHER AND MOTHER According to family folklore, my father’s family originated in Constantinople, about 1500 AD. During the next 400 years there are records o...
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As a young man in his 20's. Taken whilst he was acting as a groomsman at his Uncle Dimitri's wedding. Theothosios Triunduphilos Koroneos, Theo Corones, was born in Karavas, Kythera, on the 29th January 1926. He died in...
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This is my account of a night (24th February) during the Gilgandra flood of 1955. It was written on the 23rd of February, 2005. I am 86 years old. Can't believe it is now 50 years since we had that awful flood - not easi...
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My first memories of the shop were growing up with lots of people around all the time – the watchdogs we had ( which would jump the back fence every time there was a storm) and of course sitting on top of the woodheap to...
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in the other Kytherian Cafe. When I was young, I spent a great deal of time working in the Gilgandra Fruit Mart. Gilgandra Fruit Mart, 1960's, complete with milkbar, counter, and stools Every so often I would feel like a...
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