
Feeling she’d been lumbered with an old-fashioned moniker, a chance discovery led Connie Mourtoupalas down an inspirational rabbit hole.
Feeling she’d been lumbered with an old-fashioned moniker, a chance discovery led Connie Mourtoupalas down an inspirational rabbit hole.
The Greek-American connection with restaurants, albeit stereotypically exaggerated, is by now proverbial. Not as well-known is the Greek association with the confectionery industry, which Greek immigrants came to dominate, if not monopolize, for the better part of the 20th century.
During his brief life, George Stavrinos elevated the genre into a true art form and continues to serve as an influence today.
Lesser known is the story of the boys recruited by British and American evangelical Congregationalists, Protestants of the reformed tradition, for missionary work.
Born Ioannis Alexandros Veliotes, the son of immigrants from Ermioni and Hydra was one of the first US musicians to cross the racial divide.
Wrestling was never really my cup of tea. But when word got out on South Halsted Street in Chicago’s Greektown – my neighborhood at the time – that a Greek American had just become the first US Olympic champion in women’s wrestling, things changed and I had to see for myself.
Making my first article in Kathimerini English Edition about a woman is no coincidence. It is a statement. One that seeks to rectify the fact that Greek-American women and their accomplishments are largely overlooked by most Greek-American organizations.