There is a history in all men's lives.
Written by, Robyn Walton Coo-ee Calls. Number 12. May 1998. Coo-ee Calls is a magazine that has circulated in Gilgandra since the 1990's. Remember the heady smell of steak and onions... .coffee and hot buttered toast......
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100 YEARS OLD! It was a momentous accasion for the Kytherian Brotherhood of Piraeus as it celebrated 100 years since its founding in 1899. The elegant neo-classical building of the Piraeus Chamber of Commerce provided a...
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The Kythera in which my parents and grandparents grew up was a Gemeinschaft community, as defined by Tonnies. The traditions, rituals, beliefs - the general ethos of Kythera - confirm this fact. Many of the adjustments t...
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On page 157 in Kythera. A History, published 1993, I summarised very briefly the history of Kythera 1917 - 1940 in the following way: 1917 On 26th February, Kythera was declared an independent state. 1918 General mobilis...
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In the lead up to WWII and throughout World War II, Greek shopkeepers, many of them Kytherians spent a great deal of time and energy convincing other Australians that they were not the enemy - Italians. In Melbourne Week...
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As has been well documented at kythera-family there are many parachouklia (the Scot's would say clan groups) amongst those who share the family name TZORTZOPOULOS. Names include: Hihlis Georgakas Katsovitha Kapitanios Do...
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DNA Markers. A Human Road Map. By Steve Meacham Sydney Morning Herald. Tuesday July 26th. 2005. Page 11. The National Geographic Society’s Genographic Project -launched in Washington, in April, -will attempt to trace the...
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By Steve Meacham Sydney Morning Herald. Tuesday July 26th. 2005. Page 11. "Once, skeletons were locked in the closet. No longer, as we dig deeper for the roots of our family trees", writes Steve Meacham. More than 40 yea...
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An Important research tool for Kytherians searching their genealogical roots in Australia. How Joyce's list became the toast of cyberspace By Steve Meacham July 26, 2005 Sydney Morning Herald. Tuesday July 26th. 2005. Pa...
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Events on Kythera. From the Kytheraismos Newspaper, www.kyheraismos.gr info@kytheraismos.gr published, and distributed throughout the world monthly, Main News, in English By Helen Tzortzopoulos It seems months since East...
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Events on Kythera. From the Kytheraismos Newspaper, www.kyheraismos.gr info@kytheraismos.gr published, and distributed throughout the world monthly, Main News, in English By Helen Tzortzopoulos I Promise!!! No more discu...
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The Gollan Milk Bar (85 Woodlark) George Sargent is now the longest running Greek proprietor in Woodlark, having taken up residence in 1936, but a relative youngster in the long run of Woodlark machinations. His shop is...
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The Crethar Hamburger Harry and his dad wasted no time in adding a series of mod cons, the culmination of which was the introduction of music selection boxes at each cubicle where the latest pop tunes could be chosen at...
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The Feros Fruit Shop (54 Magellan) Peter George Feros (Pikouli) had been doing a good trade here, mainly fruit but with a milk bar sideline, since 1946 when he came up from Ballina to go into partnership with his cousin,...
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The year is 1955 and 18yr old Harry Eric Crethar is doing his usual run around ‘The Block’, the local name for the major retail portion of Lismore’s CBD, sussing out the café competition in preparation for the launch of...
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Kytherians at War Greek Australian VEMA TO BHMA 7/39 April 2002 ANZAC Day Feature Compiled (with the help of many others) and edited by Ann Coward No, this is not an article about feuding families. It is about Australia...
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The hand that scrawled graffiti: A Scottish traveller on Kythera in the nineteenth century This is a story about a simple inscription, “GALT 1810” which can still be found in a limestone cave on the island of Kythera. Wh...
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LIBERATION OF GREECE ------:o:----- Ceremony at Cenotaph A very dignified and solemn ceremony was enacted at the Inverell Cenotaph on Friday morning when the liberation and defence of Greece was celebrated by the Greek c...
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Central Western Slopes – Warrumbungle District Baradine Antonios Dimitrios Diacopoulos appears to be the Samaritan who brought the loaves and fishes to the Baradinian timber workers. He was 13yrs old when he began his pi...
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Events on Kythera. From the Kytheraismos Newspaper, www.kyheraismos.gr info@kytheraismos.gr published, and distributed throughout the world monthly, Main News, in English By Helen Tzortzopoulos Chronia Polla and Kali Sar...
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