There is a history in all men's lives.
Derek De Solla Price, 1959 From the evidence of the fragments one can get a good idea of the appearance of the original object. Consisting of a box with dials on the outside and a very complex assembly of gear wheels mou...
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An Ancient Greek Computer In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera - for Antikythera info-link, go to http://www.antikythera.8m.com/newant.htm - found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The m...
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And 51st King’s Own Light Infantry Cerigo 1826-1828. This is a portion of an article written by a descendent of Thomas Gallagher who served in the 51’st King’s Own Light Infantry from 1824. The original article was writt...
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North Western NSW – Walgett Plains and Backa Beyond Bourke By common consent Bourke is where the line in the sand defines the start of the outback and where the locals boast that NSW’s highest official temperature of 51....
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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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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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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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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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Upper New England Tablelands Emmaville The venerable firm of Venardo & Aroney founded a café here in 1906. Aroney was Theo Peter who landed in 1903, aged 21, and was granted a license to practice catering after 3yrs supe...
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They say it’s seventeen years since the last proper snow fall on the island, and around one hundred and thirty years since there has been this much snow in Greece. The whole country has been snowed in, from the eve of Fr...
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Upper Hunter Valley Aberdeen Theo Harry Catsoulis, the farmer earlier of Grafton, Casino and Bellingen, came here with his family in the late war years and remained through to at least the early 1920s, perhaps retailing...
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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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The sea sparkled and the roads were hazy in the heat as I walked up the alley steps in Chora towards the castle. It towers over the town, a landmark atop the mountain on the opposite side of which it is said you can see...
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Mid North Coast Bowraville Looks like another rare town whose fortifications managed to hold out the encircling wagons of the Kytherians. Around 1914 a bloke named Arthur Kyriacos appears to have brought the first Greek...
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The Clarence District Bellingen Athanasios Anastasios Samios came down from Murwillumbah in early 1908, by then an old experienced hand aged 20, and was possibly a waiter for someone or other until establishing/acquiring...
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The following is taken from an article written depicting early life of Greek migrants in cafes (Cafe Society) for the Illawarra Museum The cafe society followed on from the general store of the late 19th Century early 20...
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At Kithira, before the institution of the philharmonic orchestra there was not an organised musical group like the rest of Eptanisa. Small, poor, and isolated from the rest of Eptanisa, Kithira did not accept the western...
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The Tweed-Brunswick District Bangalow The first Greek presence came with the mysterious Nick Nicholoudes in 1905/06 when the place was barely established. But his was a short-lived venture and he disappeared within a yea...
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The Richmond District Alstonville Emmanuel Harry Mavris (Mavromikhail) acquired a cafe here in mid 1922, but who came before or after is still on the investigation list. He was 10yrs old when he left home in Piraeus, spe...
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The following overview of Kytherian settlement is plagiarized from the research of Charles Price, Hugh Gilchrist, Effie Alexakis, Leonard Janiszewski, Denis Conomos and Peter Vanges The first Kytherians to raise the flag...
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