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My Greek Odyssey: ΝΟΣΤΑΛΓΩΝΤΑΣ ΤΟ ΣΠΙΤΙ
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ITHAKA ON THE HORIZON: A Greek-American Journey. Subscribe to this blog's feed. Greek Heritage Festival Photos. Saint Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, Saco, Maine, USA 10-12 July 2009. Help Saint Catherine's Monastery of Mt Sinai. ΠΡΟΣΚΥΝΗΜΑ ΣΤΟ ΑΓΙΟ ΟΡΟΣ. ΕΝΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟ ΧΩΡΙΟ ΣΤΟ ΜΕΙΝ (MAINE). Hitler on the Greek Debt Crisis. The Battle of Crete and the Cretan Resistance. The Virtue of Philotimo. Turks versus Greeks: Why We Can't Get Along. To Dixty (The Net). Forty Years in the Jails of Enver Hoxha.
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A Rolling Crone: The Scarred Back of a Slave Named Gordon
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Friday, October 2, 2009. The Scarred Back of a Slave Named Gordon. On page 14 of Sept. 20’s Book Review, The New York Times. Published a shocking photograph of a slave with a horribly scarred back to illustrate a review of “Deliver Us from Evil”. Because I collect antique photos and have many dealing with slavery and the life of black people in the 1800's, I wrote to the Times the back story behind this photo, and the letter, somewhat abbreviated, is in the book review section this Sunday- Oct. 4. Showin...
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A Rolling Crone: The Shocking Story Behind the White Slave Photographs
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012. The Shocking Story Behind the White Slave Photographs. In my previous post,. I discussed the recently-in-the-news photos of the “White Slave Children of New Orleans” which portrayed only white-appearing slave children, not black ones. I explained how this apparently wrong-minded and politically incorrect practice of the Abolitionists had originated nearly a decade earlier with a daguerreotype of a white-skinned little girl named Mary Botts. According to Celia Caust-Ellenbogen of...
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A Rolling Crone: ALI PASHA & THE BLOODY HISTORY of IOANNINA
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Friday, April 24, 2015. ALI PASHA and THE BLOODY HISTORY of IOANNINA. Ali Pasha on the Lake of Ioannina. Outdoor restaurants, hammered metalwork, memorial to the Jews taken from Ioannina, the gate to the walled Turkish city. Tourists have not yet discovered this city, which is little changed from the days when Lord Byron visited the notorious tyrant Ali Pasha in the walled Turkish Kastro which still stands—its walls intact, its minarets and palaces now turned into museums. Ali’s wife was Kyria Vass...
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A Rolling Crone: Baby Countdown Ends on April 2.
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Saturday, April 4, 2015. Baby Countdown Ends on April 2. On April 2, the day of his birth, we opened a bottle of champagne that Papou Nick had brought for the occasion. After all, this was his grandson and namesake! Here is a sweet portrait of Mommy and Big Sister and Little Brother, taken on April 3, the second day of Nicholas' life. Somebody else took this photo of me holding our new grandchild. April 5, 2015 at 8:10 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. America's First (Sel...
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A Rolling Crone: The Executioner’s Granddaughter
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Monday, May 28, 2012. The Executioner’s Granddaughter. The Story Behind the Photograph. Last week, as I was selecting antique photos of children with toys from my collection for my post of May 18, I picked up this one of a curly-headed moppet holding a toy lamb and a riding crop. It’s a CDV (carte de visite) a calling-card-sized photo that could have been taken any time from 1854 to 1900. The photographer is listed as “Samson” in Liege, Belgium. His son guillotined Marie Antoinette.). The Charles Henri S...
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A Rolling Crone: Could Lost Bird’s Tragedy Inspire a Triumph for Native Americans?
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Monday, May 4, 2015. Could Lost Bird’s Tragedy Inspire a Triumph for Native Americans? Everal years ago, I first posted about the Native American baby girl who was found alive under the frozen body of her mother on the blood-soaked fields of Wounded Knee, SD, four days after the massacre on December 29, 1890, that killed. More than 300 Lakota men, women and. I had purchased a. I learned that her life was one of unremitting tragedy. Then, early this year, I received an e-mail from Brian George, a Native A...
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A Rolling Crone: Lost Bird: Survivor of Wounded Knee, Betrayed by the White Man
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012. Lost Bird: Survivor of Wounded Knee, Betrayed by the White Man. The Story Behind the Photograph. This antique photo is the most expensive and I think the most interesting one in my collection. It’s an Imperial—which means a giant version of the cabinet card- and measures. About 7 by 10 inches;. An albumen print mounted on decorative board. It was taken in Beatrice, Nebraska by a photographer named Taylor. He promised to bring food to the surviving tribe members if they’d ...
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A Rolling Crone: A TEENAGED GIRL’S MEMOIR OF THE CIVIL WAR
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Saturday, April 16, 2011. A TEENAGED GIRL’S MEMOIR OF THE CIVIL WAR. The Story Behind the Photograph). The girl in this faded carte de visite (CDV). Photograph was born in 1847, so she would have been 14 when the Civil War began and 18 when it ended. Eliza was the child of two Swiss-French immigrants who arrived in the United States on July 4. Here are her parents Pierre Francois Buffat—a miller and farmer—with his hand firmly on his Bible,. Among the memoirs included in the two spiral-bound volumes was ...
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A Rolling Crone: The Last Surviving Grouchy Grammar Nut
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015. The Last Surviving Grouchy Grammar Nut. It even got me elected to some "save our language" internet group which sends me Facebook messages now and then. Evidently there are a lot more grouchy grammar nuts out there than I thought! You know how, in World War II, the Marines employed Navajo code talkers to transmit radio messages because no one but another Navajo could understand the language? It's always an error in The New York Times. Even though, throughout the text of the piece...
