General History

Steve Frangos, c. 2006 Crimes against the newly arrived Greek peddlers took many forms and by various attackers. It must be recalled that between 1880 and the very early 1900s, the average worker made a dollar to two dol...

Steve Frangos, c. 2006 Contact, Steve Frangos From the late 1880s onward Greek peddlers quite literally fought to earn their daily bread. For those who scoff at such a claim we need only turn to the daily press of New Yo...

Steve Frangos, c. 2006 Contact, Steve Frangos It is one thing to say “Greeks had to struggle to succeed in America,” and another to be able to quote reports from the New York Times of Greek immigrants fighting in the str...

Steve Frangos, c. 2006 Contact, Steve Frangos Rough laborers and street peddlers are the two most enduring stereotypic images we have of Greeks who arrived in North America during the 1880s. Without turning too close an...

Neos Kosmos English Weekly, 28th February, 2000, p.6. One of the important issues tabled at the three day conference was correcting a historical belief about the first book published in Australia in the Greek language....

Dr. George D. Argyropoulos General Secretary September 2006. Contact, George D. Argyropoulos The whole thing started in 1948, when this great Kythirian man, Nikolaos Trifyllis born in a little village called Trifyllianik...

Greek community gathering outside St George Greek Orthodox Church, Port Pirie, SA, c. 1935. Effy Alexakis and Leonard Janiszewski, have traced the first hazy steps by some of Port Pirie's first Greek settlers. Their pre...

George Mormoris, a Kytherian, a doctor, and writer, produced a Greek translation, or more correctly, an adaptation, of a famous Italian play, Tasso's Aminta. He published it in 1745. The plays' significance is that it he...

Very intrigued by a recent entry re: Aussie Canadian Greek - Robert Sydney Watt. At his website http://www.freewebs.com/manusugreek/ he relates some of the history of a Michael James Manusu Robert had written to Helen &...

A former advisor to Jeff Kenett now living in Greece is hoping to become the next mayor of the island of Kythera. A third generation Australian Greek, Sia Poulos relocated to Greece in the early 1990's after she fell in...

An Extended and amended version, of the interview published in: Epsilon Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 6, 15th June, 2006. pp. 32-35 Family ties George Poulos talks to Savvas Limnatitis about www.kythera-family.net, a web sit...

Jacaranda Avenue Grafton From the early 1900's to date there has always been a powerful Kytherian presence in the town of Grafton, NSW. No less than 7 cafes were owned by Kytherians in Grafton in the post WWII era. Thei...

The following photos depict some of the Greek café paraphernalia held in the treasure chest of an avid collector of Lismore memorabilia, who wishes to remain anonymous. All the crockery was manufactured at various times...

Chpt 49, Peter Vanges', Kythera, A History of the island and its people 1993. Book, Available: The Kytherian Association of Australia P. O. Box A203 Sydney South, NSW 1235 Contact, President, The Kytherian Association of...

Chpt 48, Peter Vanges', Kythera, A History of the island and its people 1993. Book, Available: The Kytherian Association of Australia P. O. Box A203 Sydney South, NSW 1235 Contact, President, The Kytherian Association of...

....in the dining hall at the Bonegilla migrant reception, 1949. Migrant Reception Centres were set up to accomodate people while they waited for employment and other living arrangements to be made. The centres also serv...

The Daily Examiner, Grafton. August 30, 2003, page 8. by Juris Graney The history of Greek cafes in the Clarence Valley is being documented by two historians as part of a project called ‘In Their Own Image: Greek Austral...

Photograph: Historical researchers Effy Alexakis and Leonard Janiszewski, (left and right)in the USA, 2005. Photograph from: http://www.international.mq.edu.au/staffNews.asp?itemID=484 The Daily Examiner, Grafton. Augus...

19 Dec 2005 Macquarie staff will be coordinating an exhibition in the United States, following successful negotiations by the Centre for Flexible Learning’s Effy Alexakis and Modern History’s Leonard Janiszewski. Effy an...

THE VILLAGE OF WATERMILLS “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” When you leave the town square of Milopotamos,...