Professor Kostis Kourelis's Pallas lecture, "Excavating Home: Archaeologies of the Greek American Experience" (March 21, 2019).  https://vimeo.com/326391134 17th Annual Pallas Lecture: Excavating Home: Archaeologies of the Greek American Experience Speaker: Kostis Kourelis, Associate Professor of Art History, Franklin & Marshall College Greek migration to the United States maintained two separate domestic environments, the Greek towns in urban America and the remittance villages in rural Greece. Both spaces played a central role in each country’s socio-economic modernization in the 1900s-1920s. Both spaces of this shared transformation were abandoned in the 1960s through urbanization, deindustrialization, suburbanization, white flight, and urban renewal. With the progressive passing of lived memories, archaeology must make increasingly important contributions in reconstructing the immigrant lifeworld of a century ago. By placing all of its archaeological res...

THE GREEK ROGUE OF THE AMERICAN WEST Part Three By Steve Frangos Published in The National Herald, January 10, 2009 ------------------------------ I am excited that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ PART THREE  After all that I have written about Peter Attias, one of the most successful Greek immigrant confidence men of the American West, many will say this man’s life was simply an aberration. Why look at rogues? Clearly the vast majority of Greek sojourners who arrived in North America between 1870 and 1924 were law abiding individuals who only wanted to find an honest job. It is Dr. Attias’ nearly two years in and around Salt Lake City that demands our attention. For it is between 1904 and 1905 that Peter Attias challenged Leonidas Skliris as chief labor leader for the Greeks in the American West. ...