"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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From: Janis Wilton. Immigrants in the Bush. Cafes and Cafe Owners. Armidale College of Advanced Education. 1989. 81 x A4 pages. Peter Tsicalas (see, Culture, subsection, Bibliography), desribes this book in the following...
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Gillian Bouras was born in Melbourne in 1945. She worked as a teacher in Australia before moving to Greece with her husband and children in 1980. Her first book about this experience, A Foreign Wife, was published in 19...
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From: Janis Wilton. Immigrants in the Bush. Cafes and Cafe Owners. Armidale College of Advanced Education. 1989. 81 x A4 pages. Peter Tsicalas (see, Culture, subsection, Bibliography), desribes this book in the following...
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[From records maintained at the Water Tower Museum, Gunnedah. For other Kytherian history re: Gunnedah, search under Gunnedah. Written by Theo Kepreotes, [Maroubra], 1996(?) and reproduced with permission. Theo was instr...
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Antonius Notaras, was one of the fascinating characters interviewed by Suzanne Falkiner for her 1985 book, Australians Today. (Publisher, George Allen and Unwin). Also reproduced in the Sydney Morning Heralds' Good Week...
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I remember when Mussolini demanded from the Greek Government to allow free passage to his troops through Greece and received the unexpected answer "OXI" NO!! which is still celebrated on the 28th of October I remember, t...
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Viron, was well known in Hora for his many fearless acts and this is one of them, but it turned out to be very costly. On the night of the 31st of August 1944, the Germans set fire to their ammunition on their Headquarte...
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Some time after the Germans left Kythera, (to be exact on the 27th of January 1945) a British cargo ship loaded with rice,wheat and flour,anchored in Kapsali.The ship was under the supervision of a British battle ship,wh...
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[Tony is a Real Estate agent in Liverpool, Sydney, Australia. In the past decade he has travelled to Kythera every Kytherian summer. Town of origin: Ayia Pelagia. Parachoukli Alai]. Food sharing. The Italians used to go...
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[Tony Fardoulys is a Real Estate agent in Liverpool, Sydney, Australia. In the past decade he has travelled to Kythera every Kytherian summer. Town of origin: Ayia Pelagia. Parachoukli Alai. He recalls the following abou...
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[Tony is a Real Estate agent in Liverpool, Sydney, Australia. In the past decade he has travelled to Kythera every Kytherian summer. Town of origin: Ayia Pelagia. Parachoukli Alai]. In 1942, He remembers as a young child...
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In 1942, a bomb appeared on the beach near Firi Ammos. It had failed to detonate. It remained on the beach for many months. The feast day of Ayia Patrikia, was traditionally celebrated in the small church of Ayia Patriki...
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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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The Cassimatis family originated from the village of Keramoto of Kythera island. The first Manolis Cassimatis (that is, the first of who some memory still remains), otherwise known as Gerontomagas married a woman named A...
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It was May of the year 1985. An old fisherman and his young inexperienced assistant and friend had thrown out their nets just off a beach near Myrtidia the night before, and that morning intended to bring them in. The we...
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I have appropriated the following Oral History transcript from the site - http://www.cybernaut.com.au/greeksinoz/interviews/interviews.htm#FIRST%20GENERATION%20KYTHERIANS The site includes transcripts of lengthy intervie...
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Apart from tea leaves and apple dunking etc, another way of reading the future was done with lead. One melted the lead and then when it was hot it was poured into cold water at which point it became solid, and it was sup...
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Sophie Poulos (Tzortzopoulos) was born in Gladstone, QLD, Australia to a Kytherian father and an Australian mother. In 1978 her father Nikolas Tzortzopoulos took his family to live on Kythera. They lived in the scholi (t...
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This is a copy of a photograph of Michael Panaretos. The original is in the Cultural Centre in Potamos. The photo was taken after he returned to Greece from the Belgian Congo. Michael Panaretos left Kythera when his par...
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Extract from the memoirs of Prof Manuel J Aroney (Beys) For Australian academics in the sciences, it is almost mandatory to go on study leave to prestige universities or research institutes in the United Kingdom, Western...
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