Newsletter Archive

Dear Friends of Kythera, after 10 wonderful weeks on Kythera, we are back in Berlin and missing the island very much - my son's continue to run about here calling out "pame yia banyio " (let's go for a swim!) in Greek. T...

> Contents: - Newsletter - Anna Comino's Kythera-Blog - George Tzannes' Exhibition opening in Kapsali. 11. August. - Chrisanthe Comino by Gaye Hegeman - Interview with Kythera's Mayor Koukoulis - Real Estate Listings Dea...

Thanks, Queensland Many thanks to those 500 who attended the Brisbane “Launch” of Kythera-Family.net. Your support means a lot to us. After the launch there was a surge of activity on the site with more than 200 new regi...

Flying over Kythera This might interest a few of you: probably about the same time as you are reading this – early April – I'll flying over Kythera on a helicopter to photograph the island for a “Kythera from the Air” bo...

Flying over Kythera, Grand Meeting of Kytherians in Queensland. Dear Friends of Kythera, at the bottom of this mail you'll find your invitation to a huge Kytherian event in Queensland, Australia, on the 15th of April. So...

A NEW COMPETITION: "Those who never Returned" Dear Friends of Kythera, my friend and veteran Kythera-Family.net contributor Spyro Calocerinos has come up with a great idea. He pointed out that there are lots of life stor...

A Greek-American Discovers Roots in Australia Dear Friends of Kythera, Since we announced our "10,000 Entries" competition in August more than 500 entries have been submitted to the site which not only pushed the counter...

A Greek-American Discovers Roots in Australia Url to document: http://www.kythera-family.net/index.php?nav=6-21&cid=9&act=9&did=11823 Reprinted from the Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church Epistle, Nov. 2006 By Terry Ker...

10,000 pieces of the Kytherian Puzzle Dear Friends of Kythera, A few days ago the 10,000th entry was uploaded to Kythera-family.net. It was a source of great pride to all of us working on the site. Thanks to all those wh...

Back from the Roots Dear Friends of Kythera, we have a really special newsletter this month which includes moving articles by Crissouli and a new contributor: Wilma Allex from Austria, who spent a winter on Kythera in 20...

Off to Kythera My family and I have been on the island now for a week. My young boys are already dividing up the treasure they hope to find on our next trip to Paliopoly Beach, planning a climb up Paliocastro, where the...

Kythera, August 12th, Discover Your Roots 2006 Dear Friends of Kythera, yes, it's on again! On the 12th of August, members of the world-wide Kytherian community will be meeting on Kythera to participate in lectures, exch...

Kytherian Jigsaw By Vikki Vrettos Fraioli with Terry Chlentzos Keramaris As a young child, I remember my mother telling me stories of my yiayia and papou who had immigrated in the early 1900s from Kythera - via Alexandri...

More than just a Website The Kythera-Family.net website is much more than an online repository. Through it’s existence people have come together who might never have met, and projects have sprung to life which were incon...

The Fruits of a Website Although we can tell how many people are visiting our website (36 000 in 2005), how many pages they are viewing (1.4 million since 2003) and which pages are most popular, it is hard to tell if the...

Your Extended Kytherian Family Dear Friends of Kythera, On my last flight to Australia I managed to finish a book by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. called "Breakfast of Champions". The book has of course nothing to do with Kythera, e...

Content: _Newsletter _Dolmades for Lunch _Recent Message Board entries _THE PICNIC by Harris George Dear Friends of Kythera, for those of you who don't look regularly at the message-board area of the site, we've decided...

Earthquake on Kythera Dear Friends of Kythera, as many of you may have heard, Kythera experienced an earthquake on Sunday at about 1.30 pm midday. It registered 6.9 on the Richter scale. Fortunately there seems to have b...

The end of a Legend Dear Friends of Kythera, a lot has been written about the cafes which Kytherians set up and ran after they migrated, comparatively little though about the cafe culture on the island. Anyone who regula...

Join our Team! Dear Friends of Kythera, the Kythera-Family.net team needs more volunteer interviewers, collators and editors. Fascinating information about Kythera is still unwritten or undigitalised and there are dozens...