Two for the Culture
Combine international travel, service with a Greek flair and 50 years of marriage and you have an excellent example of a couple who have made important contributions to the Greek experience in Washington State.
Read More, View Photos and VideoPutting her Greek to Work
There are many ways to use one’s Greek language. Marilyn (Marianthe) Tsapralis McCabe Love uses hers to inspire and teach others.
Read More, View Photos and VideoHires to You
Steve (Stavros) James Sourapas’ Greek family experience and the operation of the family business were closely intertwined.
Read More, View Photos and VideoMy Heart is in Three Churches
From Spokane to Seattle to Bellingham, Mary Sellinas Hulbush has maintained her faith, her friends and her Greek heritage.
Read More, View Photos and VideoMaking Good Parea
For Terry (Sotiros) Nikolaos Karis (Kanakaris) making good parea (companionship) has been the key to a successful life in Seattle’s Greek community.
Read More, View Photos and VideoFrom Rags to Riches
He was known as the Junk King of Anacortes when he began collecting discarded items in 1908 but E. (Efthemios) “Mike” Demopoulos became a major landowner and businessman in the town.
Read More, View Photos and VideoClimb Every Mountain
At fifteen years of age, Ted (Theodore) Kaltsounis, his parents and five siblings escaped from Albania over the mountains into Greece to avoid communism and execution of his father.
Read More, View Photos and VideoDrawn to Medicine
What did doctors do before graphic technology was available?
Read More, View Photos and VideoIt Really Did Take a Village
While the town of Manson, Washington, was reminiscent of her parents’ homes in Greece, hers was the only Greek family in the area.
Read More, View Photos and Video“That Sounds Like Greek to Me”
On his first day of school when Lazarus Stylianos Politakis was hit in the head with a baseball bat he cried out for help in his native tongue. Someone said, “That sounds like Greek to me.”
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